Pete's BLOG-Day 26,339. New Year's Resolutions

Today is Saturday, December 29, 2012. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes on the exercise ball and 45 minutes of walking = 2.5 miles for a December total of 55.2 miles. My weight was 164.2 pounds.

QUOTE is an Irish proverb: "May your troubles be less, your blessings more and may nothing but happiness come through your door."

My THOUGHTS today have to do with New Year's Resolutions: The New Year of 2013 begins Tuesday. I'm not a big one for New Year's Resolutions but I do have a couple of things in mind every new year. The first one is to maintain my weight between 160 and 165 pounds. If I find myself slipping over 165 I have a way of solving the problem. Instead of judging myself, I examine the setback by asking myself, ":What specifically tripped me up?" So I track back to the moments when my goal got derailed. Then I change my eating plan for the next several days. I weigh first thing every morning and can see if I'm getting back on track. If not, I will eat less that day and skip any sweets. It has worked since I lost over 30 pounds in 2003 - at that time I went from 195 to 159. That was too much as my face was caving in so I put on a couple of pounds and decided I looked pretty good in the low 160s. I'm still there.

The other "resolution" I make every year is to keep writing in my BLOG. I know I don't have a big readership but it is so cathartic for me because it makes me think. I feel good having to think of something to write about every day.
   Recording my "stats" every day keeps me "on the ball" to not get lazy.

   And including a QUOTE inspires me - I think about my QUOTES a lot. I have two     QUOTE books and they are really inspiring - some are from Guideposts.

    Plus, I enjoy going back and reading my "posts" from the last couple of years.

The HUMOR section is good for my psyche.

HUMOR for today: The   Japanese eat little fat and the Mexicans eat a lot of fat but they both have fewer heart attacks than Americans. The Chinese drink little red wine and the Italians drink a lot of red wine and both have fewer heart attacks than Americans. The Germans drink a lot of beer and lots of suasages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. So eat and drink what you like. Speaking english is appaarently what kills you.