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What better time than January 1st, 2011 to think about how last year went and what changes I might make, if any, this year.

I no longer believe in making New Year's Resolutions. They almost always are broken before January is over. I haven't made them for many years now. I do however, like to review my life from time to time and see how I am doing and if changes need to be made.

I have overindulged this past month during the Christmas holiday. I am happy to say, that I did pretty well overall. I did have a few bites of things I probably shouldn't have. I felt confident that I could limit myself to just one or two bites on occasion. A few areas that I have slipped in are:
-eating too much too late into the evening
-over eating at meals. Even though I take my time to eat, and chew slowly, I am eating too much.
-I have had more "healthy" sweets this year than the previous two years and I feel the difference when I eat them.

I am going to do a cleanse starting this month. I should really start out with the 3 day juice cleanse, but I just don't know if I can make myself do it. I know it is the best for me, but the last experience I had was not a good one, and I can't muster the courage to do it.

I haven't exercised the past two days, and I really notice a difference when I don't. Dennis has been home for the last two weeks. He saved up his vacation time so he didn't have to work over the holidays. I love having him here, but it shakes up my routine and I do like my routines. Dennis likes to have me stay in bed with him until he is ready to get up, but if I don't exercise and have my morning prayers first thing, they don't happen or, it just pushes everything back and it is noon before I am ready. I am a morning person and he is a night person. He often stays up later that I do, so he likes to sleep in. I am just the opposite. So some days I give in to him and sleep in later that I would really like. I am so grateful for my Cellerciser. It is the best exercise for me and keeps me in shape. Our stake is having a racquetball clinic and tournament this month. I signed up to do it. I love racquetball, but don't care to play with Dennis as he is a much better player than I am. I also want to go snowshoeing this winter also. We got new snowshoes last Christmas (2009) and have not used them yet. We just need to find the time which is difficult with Dennis work schedule.

We got an Xbox 360 with Kinect so that should give us some additional exercise. All we have to do is turn it on and DO IT!!! I don't know why it is so hard at the end of a day to turn off the TV and get off our butts and do something.

I have also noticed that some days during the cold weather I just don't feel like eating a salad. I like them, but something about being cold makes it hard to want to. I also have to get back into the mode of cooking every night. With all the party's and eating out and leftovers I get out of the habit of cooking and fall back into the mode of seeing it as a chore that I dislike doing.

I have decided that I need to quit stressing about teaching or holding exercise and/or eating healthy classes. Everytime I think I should do it I get all stressed out and my dizziness comes back. I CAN direct interested people to the Green Smoothie Girl or Eat To Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. They tell it much better that I ever could and also have the credentials,knowledge and background that I lack. I have come to realize that I feel so much better when I don't stress over things. So that is another goal I need to work on: DE-STRESSING! Yea, like that will be an easy goal. But I can work on it and chip away at it bit by bit. The important thing is to NOT GIVE UP!!!

Happy New Year - I hope it is a healthy one for you.