My Non-Resolution

I am not really one for New Year's Resolutions.  We've all read the studies and quip-y articles.  They don't work.


So if I make one, it's usually minor.  Last year, it was to make my bed.  I was pretty good about it.  But massive, "I am going to revolutionize my life" moments rarely come out of a New Year's Resolution.  So I'll take a pass.


That said, I think it is time to make a non-resolution.

I have to put on a bathing suit in about 90 days and there will likely be cameras there.  No, not like I am a famous person in a bathing suit and so people take photos.  But my god, if I were, at this point, I'd be the one on the front of the Star magazine with the black box over my face while they had some horrible caption about guessing which celebrity had let herself go.

Anyway, I digress.  No, no paparazzi, but plenty of photos that will likely be around for a long time. Not to mention real people.  And real people that know me. 

So today I have my salad, and my water, and my renewed conviction to start to turn things around.

So I am not going to call this a resolution. But instead, I will just share a few things I learned in 2009.


1. Having the "Lose It" app doesn't automatically make you lose it.


2. When someone asks you if you are pregnant, and you aren't, as great as it is to start cleaning out your house and making it lose weight, doesn't mean you will automatically do the same thing yourself.


3. Christmas cookies are the enemy.  Christmas appetizers are worse.


4. No one really sneaks into your home and shrinks your pants.


5. Just because you keep your "I lost 10% of my body weight" back in 2006 Weight Watchers keychain on your keychain, doesn't mean you will keep (or kept) it off.


6. Using your food scale to weigh your kids Pinewood Derby cars (a year ago) and leaving it in the basement ever since then, doesn't help you manage portion size and weigh your food.


7. When you are watching "The Biggest Loser" and you get towards the end of the show and the women are either near your weight or have passed it up entirely, you cannot assume they are all 4 feet, 9 inches tall.  They're not.


8. Just because your husband responds to stress by losing weight, doesn't mean you will.  In fact, you might just inherit his weight.


9. Just because you have had three kids, and nursed all of them for a year+, and found that the baby weight fell right off while you did that doesn't mean you get bonus points and automatic thinness for the rest of your live.  You don't.


10. Similar to point 1.  Just having a Wii Fit, doesn't mean you will get fit by tucking it under the entertainment unit.  And when you hear yourself making excuses not to play it with the kids so you don't have to get on it and collectively watch your Mii balloon up, you know things have to change.

And the bonus point.

11. There are calories in wine.


And so, this morning I stopped by Target on the way into work and bought the Jillian Michaels "30 Day Shred" DVD.  I have heard good things about it and am going to give it a shot.  And I am going to eat better.  And get the food scale out of the basement.  And use the Lose It app.  And maybe, once the Mii stops looking like Tweedle Dee, I'll even pull Wii Fit back out.

I'll keep you posted.