Every year like millions of other well intentioned people I make a New Year's resolution and every year I fail, until last year. Last year instead of "losing 25 lbs" I decided to ask myself: What have a always wanted to do? and then waited for the answer to come and listened. Bad idea. My inner self came back with start a nonprofit and run a half marathon.
Well I don't know if was the fear of letting my inner self down or my stubbornness, but the formula worked. Last year I did just that, start a nonprofit and run a half marathon. If it ain't broke don't fix it! This year I did the same thing. My inner self came back with climb Mt. Rainier and eat in for a year. CRAP!
I shouldn't have watched Food, Inc. or Fresh and I definitely shouldn't have read The Beauty Detox Solution because that is the only way my subconscious mind came up with cooking every meal for a year. But since I got the calling this stay-at-home mom will forgo being weighted on, cooked for, and cleaned up after for one year with a few exceptions.
1. I will still be going out with friends and my husband for wine and coffee. I might not be partaking in the eating portion of going out, but come on! I am only human and as a human I need human interaction!
2. We have a few gift cards to some of our favorite restaurants that we will be using sporadically throughout the year. I mean, it would be rude not to use them.
3. Cooking while on vacation is unrealistic and against everything vacation stands for. Therefore I will commit going to a grocery store and buying whole organic food for breakfast and lunch, but dinner is a free-for-all.
So here we go…. I realize that I should have started on January 1st, but my husband reminded me that it is an "unwritten rule" that New Years resolutions always begin on the Monday after New Year's. And being a total procrastinator I will have to agree with him.
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