New year, new determination.

I'm not much of a 'resolutions' kind of gal so I'm not going to talk a big about resolving to do impossible things like turn my life upside down, read War and Peace, and never eat chocolate again.
*shudder*
Can you even imagine no chocolate? The horror!
Back to what I was saying.... I do want some big changes in my life, but I'm fairly sure that I would fail at an astonishingly rapid rate if I made massive changes, so I'm not. Last summer I stopped drinking coffee and soda for three months straight and though I drink it now, it's no more than once every week or two. I also worked on portion size, weeding fast food out of my diet, and getting more activity.

For a long time it worked. I lost 20 pounds and felt great, but then around the beginning of November, when I was making up a Thanksgiving menu I decided to stop being so concerned. After all, holidays are notorious for packing on the weight and as long as I didn't gain I would be happy. Oops. I've bounced up and down 4 pounds for 2 months and I am tired of it! I want to lose again, however slowly it may be so I have to go back to basics. January has just begun and I plan to take advantage of a new start in a new month of the new year. Too many new? Yeah, I agree.
Keeping it simple gets the best results for me so that's what I'm doing. I plan to do something active every single day for the month, hopefully kicking my butt back in line and giving me the results I need to motivate me long term. When I mentioned this plan to my friends on Granola Chicks, one of them (a fellow member of Spark People, I joined in 2007) mentioned that there is a group on Spark People that are doing the EXACT. SAME. THING. Only they offer a trophy on my SparkPeople page and a chance to win a $300 gift car to Amazon.com. How cool is that? Of course I joined and I did my first workout. Ouch. I feel great, but a little tired and I had to modify 2 moves, a 3rd was hopeless, not even close to something I can do.
I kept my butt moving the whole time and did what I could.
Here's a short list of my daily goals:
multi vitamin
water
workout/cardio activity


See? Simple. Since I'm not sure I could keep it up for too long, I plan on doing it for 4 weeks and then if I think I have the moxi, I'll commit to another.