New Years...

So Christmas has come and gone and i was honestly glad to see it gone. This year just didnt feel like Christmas, i wasnt happy and felt alone. And the sad thing is im not looking that fowards to New Years. I'm always excited about going out on New Years eve, but not this year. I did get a lot of things I needed for my apartment for Christmas which is good, i liked my presents :).

So for the New Years resolution. Everyone makes this resolution and i make it every single year and never go through with it, but this year its going to happen. My resolution is to of course loose weight. I have gained so much weight and i am soooo unhappy about how i look. I lost about 20 pounds my senior year of high school and since 2008 i gained it all back. I call it the boyfriend weight, cause i was in a relationship since 2007 so i didnt pay attention to the way i look since i had someone who accepted me for who i was. I started to become unhappy about my weight over the summer but never did anything about it, but now i am actually going to do something about it.

The first step is to quit drinking soda ONCE AND FOR ALL. That is my biggest down fall is soda, espcially since my favorite is Dr. Pepper (dark soda is worse than white soda). When i lost all my weight in 2006 i went down to drinking 1 soda a day (i was drinking like 4 or 5 a day before then). I also stoped snacking, only had 1 serving when it came to meals and never ate past 8 pm. I'm not going to have a lot of money for groceries so i dont plan on buying snack foods, i also dont plan on keeping soda in my apartment either.

Second step is of course exercising. I have a work out facility in my apartment complex so i will start using that. I also plan on ordering Zumba DVDs. If you havent heard of that, its pretty much an arobic workout where you dance. This is becoming very popular where i am from and they offer classes at a gym every week. It claims that you loose 1,000 calories in one workout and you workout for an hour. Everyone who has done it says its a lot of fun so i want to try it. I dont have anyone to go to a class with in Springfield so im just going to get the DVDs.

I'm ready to start doing this. A friend of mine from my hometown has lost a lot of weight this past year (it was her resolution for 2010) and she looks amazing. She kind of gave me the encouragement to do this, just by seeing how good she looks now. So i am going to start this when i get settled into my apartment. I'll keep updates on my progress on here.