(Picture thanks to http://visuallyresponsive.tumblr.com/post/23807106238 via Pintrest)
I am going to have it on my desk at work, I'm going to have it on my phone as my background...I'm going to have it in my face all the time to keep myself motivated.
On another note, I have to admit that I am nervous to be writing this and putting myself out there for the world to read. I realize that there isn't likely to be many people reading, but even still it feels like I am publishing my diary on the internet. I feel like the blogs and Facebook pages that I have identified most with, and continue to follow, are the ones where you feel like you are seeing the real person. You see the successes and the struggles and you get all of the emotions that have gone along with both. That is my plan with this page as well, but that is also what makes me nervous. I guess it's the fear not only of failing yet again, but also of being rejected. Why rejection from a bunch of people I don't know would bother me I have no idea...I guess it's part of being human.
On the accountability front, I will be working out 5 days per week. This is drastic increase from the 0 times per week that I had been working out and after having started on Thursday of last week I am feeling it big time. I am sore, which I have always enjoyed, but this is worse than I ever remember it being...then again this is also the longest I have gone with out going to the gym regularly so I guess that is to be expected. I have also decided that I am going to gradually get back into the "watching what I eat" thing. I am going to track everything, but I am also not going to go fully restrictive right away. I feel like I have done the whole drastic change in the past...no more junk, eating right 24/7, working out 7 days a week, and that seems to set me up for failure. So I'm starting with the working out, which always makes me hungry more, and tracking what I eat. I will gradually work the better decisions on the food back into the picture as I get more used to the increased activity levels. I feel like planning this way will help keep me from feeling like a failure when I eat something I "shouldn't". I tend to be an all or nothing kind of person, so this is my attempt to work on that thinking. Just because I have something that isn't as healthy as I could choose doesn't mean that I have blown the day (or week as it often turns into) and I need to remind myself of that constantly.
So...if anyone actually reads this...how do you plan to get or keep yourself healthy in 2013?
