Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  Happy resolution time!  I originally created this blog to help hold myself accountable diet-wise and I've been completely neglecting it.  The last time I wrote in early December I had a gained a couple of pounds.  I weighed myself when I returned to work after the New Year and I had dropped those couple of pounds.  This week I'm back up again.  Anyway, I seem to be fluctuating back and forth between a couple of pounds and I'm ready to just hit my final goal weight!

First things first, let me confess my latest food regret...sugar cookies yesterday.  I was doing well on Sunday after a big dinner out to a French restaurant with friends Saturday night until Bobby bought a box of sugar cookies.  I told him to just let me eat one...well that one turned into two and then later when I should have been eating dinner it turned into three.  Ugh.

New year, new start...right?  Easier said than done as most of you know.  Every time I say I'm starting over I'm faced with a challenge  (like an invitation to go out to eat, a boyfriend who eats poorly, boredom, sweet tooth, etc.)...and lately I feel weak.  I have to give myself credit today for passing up a free Chuy's Tex-Mex lunch.  (The main reason knowing I'll be watching The Bachelor tonight with friends and a pizza might be involved.)

So here are some Food Regret resolutions for 2010:

• Don't beat myself up when I do indulge but don't let it happen more often than not.
• Become more active again.  I blame winter but I know I have to take ownership of this.  It not only means getting more exercise but just being more active in general to give me more to do than think about food!  One way I'll do this is by taking a sewing class and then practicing at home.  I will read more.  I will save up to get a Wii and use utilize the physical aspects of it like yoga. 
• Practice cooking new recipes.  I need more go-to quick dishes and also hope to encourage better eating habits in the significant other.  I really enjoyed making my first big Christmas dinner and it demonstrated that maybe I can really learn how to cook.
• Be semi-comfortable in a bikini this summer.  I would say this is a lofty goal but I'm not getting any younger and now is this time.

So to help reach all these goals I will do my best to keep up with this blog!  Good luck to everyone else out there facing the same challenges and goals!