Time to begin again... again.

Happy New Year!!!!!!

So it's been six or seven weeks since my last blog post. I'm happy to report that I maintained my weight over the holidays. Heck, I even lost a pound. But I have to confess that it was not because I tried. I did not even pretend to try. I was in fact completely surprised when I stepped on the Curves scale for the first time in over 6 weeks and saw that I had lost a pound. I wish I could look back and say, "Hmm, maybe I didn't eat so badly afterall", but that would be a lie. My little family and I spent the holidays at my parents house, and Santa went a little overboard with our Christmas stockings. Apparently he was challenging himself to literally fill the stockings my mom picked out for her fireplace, and they are really big.

So I have a few healthy goals for this year. I'm dead set on losing 50 lbs. We'll see what happens after that. It would be nice if I could lose most of it before summer starts, but I think that's probably pushing it. But my goal for summer is to fit into my summer clothes. They are size 12s. That's only one dress size away and a totally reasonable goal. Two healthy foods I want to try for the first time and use in all sorts of recipes are quinoa and spaghetti squash. Also, I would like to finish the new Curves workout without feeling like I'm going to DIE. They are doing this new thing where we do a Jillian Michaels workout on the recovery stations between machines. Suddenly I feel like the machines are my recovery from the recovery station. I did the whole thing this morning. My heart rate was through the roof. I'm telling myself that it will be better when I can breathe through my nose again, but I think I'll stick with my smart tag tomorrow.

That's all for now. Another goal I have is to keep my blog updated, so you'll hear from me soon!