10 pounds

I did make my goal of 10 pounds down before Christmas. YAY, ME!!!!

Then Christmas and New Year’s happened. I would love to say I MAINTAINED that loss but judging by the amount of cookies I consumed, it is very likely I did not.... BUT. Since we won’t know for sure until my meeting next week, for now we’ll just say that I DID make my goal of losing 10 pounds before the end of the year. That is a true statement.

I had a lovely Christmas and New Year’s. I drove with my DoggyLove from Colorado to Florida. Marito flew and met us there, and we all drove back together. We did this so we could spend Christmas with our family - our entire family including our dog. It was totally worth the hours in the car, I wouldn’t trade it. We had a couple good family arguments, though lately those are more like ‘animated discussions’ rather than the chair-breaking, punching-holes-in-walls sessions they used to be. And the food… OHHHHHHHH THE FOOD! It was marvelous. I definitely indulged in all things home-made.

And I learned something. The two days before I left my mom's house for the drive BACK to Colorado, I started eating furiously. I mean, I was completely unable to control myself; I just gave up and ate everything available. Looking at this now I can see I was stressed about LEAVING my family and friends - my home, really – to come back to Colorado with no ski pass and a job I hate and a smattering of friends whom I feel could take me or leave me. (And yes, all that over-eating surely undid some of my goal-making, too, which I was aware of and which was stressing me out even more.) So now I know that on the couple days before I leave my family, I am prone to stress eating. I need to come up with some way to manage this in the future.

And now here I am at the beginning of January vowing (like every other American) to lose 10 pounds this year. Although really, I want to lose the 10 pounds before St. Patrick’s Day so that I can say I was at my goal weight before I got pregnant. Which leads me to my other goal of 2013… deciding whether or not I (we) really want to attempt creating progeny... but I digress. I do have a resolution, to lose 10 pounds and be AT GOAL WEIGHT this year. I love that 10 pounds makes for GOAL WEIGHT. I'm not resolving 50 pounds, or 25, 20 or even fifteen... just 10.

Happy New Year!