Happy New Year!

It's resolution time and once again I have decided to try to get a handle on my weight. I started making a relatively valiant effort to gain a little self control in the kitchen sometime around the beginning of November. Leading up to Christmas I dropped a few pounds and then waffled around in a 5lb range. Then Christmas hit. There was chocolate in the stockings. There were gingerbread houses. There was candy cane bread. There just haaaaaad to be the traditional baking of cookies. My scale did not appreciate my festivities. It actually made a little popping cracking noise when I stepped on it. Ouch.

So Happy New Year. Happy New You is what it really should be called since that's what most people try to focus on at the beginning of each year. My new me this year is going to involve more gratitude, more consistent schooling for my kids, more artsy creative stuff, more traveling, and much less sugar. I've known for a long time that I am quite sensitive to sugar. Rits' reaction to her chemical ice cream? That's me with sugar. I have made several half-hearted attempts at the no refined sugar, only whole grain diet, but I have been successful twice for about a month each time and I literally drop 10lbs a week for two or three weeks. This time I'm starting with no sugar and am working my way over to only whole wheat. I'm almost there, but I'm giving myself another week to make the switch.

I weighed in on January 1st and in the last 5 days I've been 100% successful with absolutely no refined sugar and I'm down 5 1/2lbs. Not too shabby for the first week and only doing half the diet. I would like to make it a permanent change since I obviously do not respond well to sugar. Dave says he wants to do no sugar most of the time (as in he wants to have it on occasion, not he's waffling about joining in) so we can work on it together. Much better odds for success. :)

Speaking of doing things together, they say fitness is made 70% in the kitchen and 30% in the gym so Dave and I have been getting up early in the mornings to exercise together. We haven't been doing a ton, but about 20 minutes each morning of strength exercises. I think it's going pretty well and it's nice to work out with my hubby.