Snowy, blowy appreciation

With the first month of the new year drawing to a snowy, blizzardy close, it seems the perfect time to curl up and do some writing. In this first month, I have kept (fairly) consistent with my new blog, have not only stayed on track with ww's but managed to drop 11 lbs, and today I actually ran. Weeeeellll, that's stretching the truth a little. I got on the treadmill and walked briskly (while watching part of Season 1 of Modern Family--haven't watched it? Do! It's fabulous!) using weights for 10 mins and then I ran for two minutes. A far lonely cry from the 6 or 7 MILES I used to run, but considering I'm starting from scratch after not having run anything in months, it's well...a start.

I think a big key to my success thus far has been taking things one day at a time. I am a very...shall we say...efficiency oriented person. Always tackling a task with the single-minded goal of getting it done. Quite often I breeze through the things I do so quickly, so focused on the end result that I miss out on the whole point of doing certain things. As hard as I try to not have regrets, I actually regret allowing that part of my personality to take over for much of my college career. I was always so focused on getting the project/portfolio/poem/essay/lesson plan completed that I retained very little of anything I actually did in college. Simply put, I never took the time to learn. And with my last time around following ww's, my goal was, again, single-minded: to lose weight as much and as fast as possible. Too bad it was such a surprise to me when the weight came back on. This time, I'm going one day at a time and learning how to eat right and stay fit. Because this time I am going to learn how to keep it off.

And in keeping up with my appreciating the things in my life, today I am appreciating snowy days for allowing me to reflect on things in my life, for doing puzzles and playing Wii fit with my kid, and having my husband home safely from work.