A Simple Resolution

It's now the first day of a brand new year. Last night wasn't too calorically horrible I guess. No…it was. Sorry that was my denial talking. Like Yoovie's little devil, he just won't shut up sometimes. In reality it seems I approached the festivities with a bit too much zeal and have realized it is time make myself accountable and write a blog in response to my previous one.
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First off I would like to say thanks to all of you for the encouragement and friendly chastising in regards to my words of ambivalence. It seems I either struck a chord or hit a nerve with everyone. I have never had this many lengthy comments on my blogs before. It just let's me know that you all care about what happens to me and that truly squashed the funk I was in.

Admittedly I did say some things in it that I need to clarify like "Lots of people have lost weight. I need to find a challenge that goes beyond my every limit. " This one really seemed to rattle a couple of cages and I want to say thank you to those that called me on it. Forgive me. I did not mean to trivialize weight loss or the reaching of that goal. Please know that I was making a statement about me and not in general.

In all honesty, I wrote a really long blog that made some really grand proclamations in it. But after a 4 mile walk and a lot of thought, I realized that the things I was saying in the blog were really just grand standing. Don't get me wrong, I still want to do the things I wrote about and I think eventually I will tell everybody what those great grand plans were. But for now I will keep them close to my vest and just make sure I can walk before I run. Gotta make sure not to get too far ahead of myself. There is a hell of a lot more work ahead of me before I tackle anything on that scale.

So, I guess my biggest goal for this year is really just to be happy. That's it. Just be happy. This will be my greatest challenge for sure. It will require a lot of discipline in both the physical and fiscal segments of my life. I haven't really figured out how that's gonna happen yet but I have made the first step. I have decided to work on my happiness.

The tone of my blogs may change over the course of this year as they will probably be more about all the aspects of the challenges in my life rather than just the weight loss. But like I said when I started, I just want to offer up honest observations about the challenges of my life. Hopefully it will still be an interesting read for everyone.

I hope that everyone has a great year and that you reach all the goals you set for yourselves. But I would like to leave you with some advice from my spark friend ADAMM9 that really helped me to get over myself and understand the true nature of the funk I was in. He said "Nothing in this life is ever finished. Goals are excellent to have, but they do not define you. Nor does reaching them. The journey is just as, if not more, important than the destination". Yup…that was a good one.