Completely happy New Yr to you all on this 4th day of 2022.
I’ve spent the previous couple of days cleansing, organizing, purging……dresser drawers, junk drawers, closets, the fridge/freezer and the pantry. Just about any house I encounter will get consideration of an excellent cleansing and purging for the subsequent a number of days.
It occurs each January in preparation for a recent begin to the brand new yr. It is all the time been therapeutic for me to bodily toss out the outdated and welcome within the new, whether or not which means sorting by means of my sock drawer or cleansing out the freezer.
I like recent begins. I like wanting forward. I like switching issues up.
I like change.
I’ve all the time welcomed change. I take pleasure in day dreaming of what I see for myself, then making a plan of how I am going to make it occur. Generally I am profitable and generally I fail, however I all the time study one thing about myself alongside the best way. I hope I all the time hold the need to study and develop, to have fun my successes and settle for my failures as a part of the method of studying.
Might of 2021 was my 10 yr anniversary of this weblog. I did not have fun it. I let it go. I used to be feeling discouraged with myself on the time for not determining methods to do a few of the issues that I wished to do with the weblog to make it higher, larger. I let that anniversary go as a result of I used to be extra centered on what the weblog wasn’t as a substitute of specializing in what it was.
The weblog has been precisely what I wished it to be from the start and in some way I ignored that.
I got here up with the title The Weight of my Weight with out a lot thought. My weight had all the time weighed closely on my thoughts. I wanted to speak about it.
The tagline additionally got here shortly to me….It is a Heavy Topic, I am Lightening it Up a Bit.
I wished to handle a heavy matter with humor.
My first put up was Might 9, 2011.
The Starting
That is day certainly one of my weblog. It has taken me about six weeks to determine methods to do a weblog………in all probability should not be admitting that? I hope by placing all of it on the market, I will attain my weight reduction objective with a bit humor, and hopefully encourage others to do the identical. I plan to weblog in regards to the meals I eat, my train routine, my temper and the way it impacts my weight reduction, and recipes I’ve discovered that make the load loss journey and the approach to life change a bit extra pleasing! I hope you will comply with me!
Whereas fascinated with what it had not grow to be, (visions of detailed recipes with movies and methods to’s and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of followers that allowed me to rent a workers to run the weblog and Mike and I to retire on an island) I didn’t see that it was precisely what I meant it to be. A spot the place I shared my meals, my train, my temper and my weight reduction and hopefully inspired others in their very own well being journey.
I did that. I achieved what I got down to do. I reached my objective.
Past that?
I constructed relationships. I by no means even anticipated that. I developed Pen-Friends on the weblog! A few of these relationships at the moment are without end associates that I might by no means have met in any other case.
Not solely have I shared my very own well being journey, I have been capable of share our rising household, the joy of being employed by WW, the foolish tasks I provide you with round the home, the dream of shopping for Effie and making her my very own and my most cancers prognosis and the journey that adopted.
Now, “The Weight of my Weight” is not a “Heavy Topic” prefer it was 10 years in the past, 20 years in the past, 30 years in the past. Now my weight is just a quantity that offers me data. I have been capable of study that within the work that I’ve put into myself over the past 10 years.
Now my well being journey is about….
How I select to nourish my physique, transfer my physique, respect my physique and present my physique love.
It is time to finish this chapter and begin a brand new one.
Possibly I am going to begin a brand new weblog as I enterprise out in Effie and face my fears and study new issues and meet attention-grabbing folks.
Who is aware of what this new chapter might convey.
Whether or not you’ve got been right here for assist by yourself well being journey, otherwise you felt a connection in your story and my story, otherwise you’ve caught round to see what shenanigans I have been as much as, I so respect you. I do know that taking the time to touch upon the weblog requires effort, and I can not categorical how grateful I’m that so lots of you took the time to try this and join with me. I used to be all the time excited to learn and reply to the feedback you left over these 10 years.
My candy good friend Diane mentioned to me….”It’s a reward to know when it is time to transfer on”.
It’s time to transfer on. That is my closing put up right here as I start a brand new chapter.
Thanks all a lot for following!
“love the life you reside, dwell the life you like”
