Goodbye Scale

Usually by this time in a diet and exercise goals effort, I would be discouraged by the results on my scale. Luckily, I haven’t gone near the thing for a long time and I don’t plan to. My best intentions to make wellness my primary goal and weight-loss a secondary result were always sabotaged by … Read more

Celebratory Dance

I’m doing a little happy dance because I went for a 30-minute walk today! That’s a small accomplishment to some, but if you’ve been following along you know that it is another success moment I need to celebrate. Not only did I hit one of my goals, but my sore ankle seems to be healed … Read more

Muscles of the Soul

Through my understated approach to fitness, I have discovered that I’m exercising a different kind of muscle. Muscles of the soul perhaps. I’m learning to trust myself and re-envisioning myself as someone who can succeed. Do you have one of those little voices that is so quick to criticize and let you know that failure … Read more

Improving My Baseline

It is easy to get excited about big goals for all the walking, yoga, pilates, dance, etc. I will do, but not so easy to attain them especially on a regular basis. In my quest to create a realistic and sustainable healthy lifestyle, I realize that I have brought my focus to improving my baseline … Read more

Making Goals Fun

I’m having fun with this little goal tool, Joe’s Goals, that I discovered on another blog. The chart showing my results so far is in my blog sidebar. It just gives you an overview and doesn’t really show the fun stuff: the actual goals, the smiley faces and all the little check marks I get … Read more

Creating Ways to Succeed

Since my little epiphany yesterday, I realized that not only do I need a contingency plan for those times that I stray from the plan, I need more plans… more options. The more I thought about it, I realized that my resolutions had created one concept of success. Just one. So I had an infinite … Read more