New Year's Resolutions - June

With all of the upheaval I have taken a good hard look at my New Year's Resolutions and made a goal to work on each of them.  I know that its silly to do, but if I could take on one challenge why not try a few more.  One of these goals is of course to lose 20 pounds by the end of the year.  Since none of my previous resolutions stuck you could guess this one hasn't either.

My motivation is of course good health but also because my mother who has all of my life been on the heavy side has lost weight and now if feel like the tall fat freak next to her.  Much of my previous attempts have either faltered because of lack of motivation or because the nagging of my mother or grandmother has made me less motivated.  Who wants to work out if they are going to continue to get nagged regardless?

So this past weekend when I saw the two of them I made the suggestion (open mouth, insert foot) that since all of the family would be on the east coast for the first time in six months we get a family picture taken.  The last family picture was taken in 2009 and we were not all in the picture (not a good Photoshop job at all).  So, since we would be getting a new picture taken I would like to look a little less heavy then I am.

So the challenge of course is in the next month to loose five pounds.  Such a small amount should not make a difference and even if no one else could tell, I will be able to.  If that could be accomplished the next step would be five pounds before I move and of course keeping up that throughout the next few months.  If all works out that would be 30 pounds before New Year's.

Let's see if I can do that.