New Year. Fresh Start.

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. They never seem to work. I am, however, a fan of taking advantage of opportunities when they are presented. And the start of a New Year is an opportunity to refocus. No more holidays. No more out of control dinners. Much less stress. No more marathon shopping adventures.

Our typical history is to have a pretty boring Jan – Mar. It’s cold here and so basically, we just hide away and wait for the spring to come. I’m happy about this. I’m a creature of habit. I do better with the mundane than with the out of the ordinary. Just being at work today has been a blessing. This whole week has been out of whack for me, and my food has followed. Today I had my routine breakfast and my routine lunch. I packed my routine afternoon snack. To me, routine is something to be celebrated!

All that said, this winter will be a little different for me. For one, I have a travel job for work. I will be taking at least three trips in January that I know of already. Feb. will most likely be similar. Also, my sister is having her first baby so I’ll be travelling home for a week to see her in Feb. So, that mundane routine that usually helps me get back on track at the beginning of a new year is just not going to be here this year. So, I’ll need a different strategy. I’ll need to remind myself constantly that travel is not an excuse to eat whatever I want. That exercise can happen away from home. That my goal of getting under 300 pounds by May is worth all of the effort that will have to go into it. Hopefully, remembering to blog on a more regular basis will help keep me in check over these next few months.