New Years Check in

Did you make any resolutions for the New Year? I didn’t. Well, on my birthday I decided to change my diet by going vegan, and to learn belly dance, but that was it for me.

It’s funny because around the first of January there is a lot of talk of goals, resolutions, and that sort of thing. People talk about everything from submitting their manuscript by a certain date to losing one hundred pounds. And during that first week everyone is stoked, there is a flurry of activity on all the weight loss forums, and then a few weeks later things are much quieter and a few weeks after that things are pretty dead.

I wonder why people always feel the need to set these massive goals on December thirty-first. Don’t get me wrong, I do it too. I was over at Peertrainer every day logging all my meals, supporting others convinced that if I so my entire life would be perfect! And now, four weeks after I started, I don’t get over there as much, and I haven’t’ logged a meal in days.

So how do we keep up that initial passion we have when we set our resolutions? I have no idea. I’m still vegan, and belly dance lessons start Monday. But I’m not as excited as I was when I set my goals. Maybe it’s because change takes time, and we think that our lives will become wonderful if we just exercise five times a week. When that doesn’t happen maybe we get disheartened and that’s when it’s so easy to run through the In-and-Out drive through. But don’t do it! Just sit down and remember why you set your original goal, and try and get back some of that enthusiasm! That’s what I’m going to do today