New Year's resolutions, and what are you eating today (Saturday) or yesterday?

The new year is just days away and I'm muddling over my 2013 resolutions. My 2012 resolutions were to publish another book (which didn't happen because my medical problems took up so much of my time and energy) and to get involved in a non-profit business to benefit our local community (that had to wait until November). What about you? Did you make any resolutions for 2012, and have you stuck with them?

Today's food plan:
B: protein latte
S: oatmeal w/ applesauce & walnuts
S: banana w/ peanut butter
L: leftover fish, tomatoes
S: Havarti cheese
S: raw sugar snap peas
D: pizza w/ sausage (homemade), tomatoes, mushrooms
S: peanut butter banana chips

No workout today, but I'm going to have to burn some calories dealing with muddy paw prints. Yesterday it seemed like every time I'd gotten all the paw prints mopped up, another gang of dogs would come galloping in and leave another muddy trail.

Jean

Well, one resolution was to get back into school. Technically that isn't going to happen until January, but I was approved in 2012, so technically that counts right? :)  I also wanted to get pregnant. Mission accomplished. Tomorrow starts my second trimester. I also had a goal of finishing editing my writing for the high fantasy I completed. Didn't happen, but I am closer. Finally, wanted to organize that backroom so it stops looking like a tornado came through here. ::looks around:: Yeah, that didn't happen at all. Any progress that I make on this room seems to get covered up as more junk from other rooms come cycling through here. The rest of the apartment looks great, but this room, being the catch-all room isn't making progress at all. Really needs to as well because when baby is born we lose this room as "the catch-all." It's very hard to stay organized in a small apartment of 700 feet when you have a lot of junk that your spouse refuses to let go of, because you might use it someday.  I'm just going to have to convince a friend help me toss stuff when spouse is out of the house. He'll never notice, really he won't. I just have to stop making the repeated mistake of asking, "do you really need this?" 

B: cheerios, milk

S: grapes, rye toast, hummus, milk

L: tuna salad, romaine lettuce, grape juice

S: yogurt, pear

D: homemade mini pot pies

S: protein fruit smoothie

/Sounds like you're making progress. School's coming up (what will you be studying?), baby's cooking along, editing is underway (is it a book?), and the back room looms in the distance. I tend to agree with the what-he-doesn't-know-won't-hurt-him approach. I went through a major purging process moving my mom from an apartment to assisted living, then assisted living to a nursing home. Mom felt that everything she owned (even if she hadn't actually laid eyes on it in 20 years) was of vital importance, so I parked her at my house while I did the purge. Later she would occasionally ask, "Where is my ------?" and I would say, "Oh, it's in our storage shed," or "Oh, it's in our attic," and that seemed to satisfy her.

finishing the last year of my degree which was english with a creative writing concentration. yeah yeah i know, would you like fries with that? i'm transferring from BSC to UCONN and i am loath to pay back student loans when i don't even have the piece of paper that says i completed the english program in the first place. i want my last 30 credits and then i'll see where i go from there.

aye, baby is cooking. today marks the first day of my 2nd trimester.

book? well that's a loaded word :) right now it's a paperweight of immense size that i need to continue whittling down. it started at 275k words. (the average first time published writer is allowed 100k typically) and it's the first part of the story so i cannot even cut that part into three books otherwise my "trilogy" will turn into a nine book series. honestly there's a lot in there that didn't need to be in there and it's coming along; it's just time consuming and i hate editing my own work. :)

as for backroom, i'm tempted to just take a bulldozer to the room. i can't remember half of what is in the piles that need organizing, so it must mean i don't really need it, right? :) same with the closet. ::grumble:: :)

Hey, I graduated from UCONN (in 1975) - majored in art, minored in English & French. Will your classes be at the Storrs campus?

Good luck whittling that manuscript down to a publishable size. I'm not crazy about editing my own work either. Especially copy editing, because even though I've worked as a proofreader in the past, I just cannot see mistakes in my own writing after look at every word several million times before the editing even began. and I have to let a new manuscript sit and simmer on the back burner for a few weeks before I can bring myself to edit the guts of it. If I don't wait, I'm too likely to stay in love with the excess text that probably needs to proceed directly to the trash bin.

yep UCONN-Storrs is where i'll be attending this January.  it's a logical choice since my husband has gone there for the past eight years and is in process of obtaining his PhD. they're shorting me a semester's worth of work though which is infuriating me. if i went back to be BSC it'd be a year and i'd be done with the BA. unfortunately since I'm a transfer, i'm not getting credit for the full 90 that i worked my tail off for already (full time work/full time school and still pulled a 3.72...hence why i'm annoyed).

as for editing, this is exactly why i hate editing my own work. i see what's supposed to be there, not what actually is. the scenes that need to hit the editing floor, that's the easy part. going line by line to make sure the grammar is correct, that there aren't missing words, etc, that's where it's a pain. :)

I've just weighed myself. YIKES! I've gained 15 pounds since August. It was my 2 year mark. They said I'd start gaining some. But had no idea! Also just read a post about several people that have permanent damage to their stomachs due to lapband. Afraid this could happen to me. I am back on the band wagon...1200 calories/day. Excercise 3-4x week. I am not confortable with this weight I've gained. Linda

Linda,

Reading stories about permanent stomach damage is scary for everyone, but living in fear of that happening won't prevent it from happening to you. All you can do is eat sensibly in a way that won't cause side effects (PB's, stuck episodes, etc.) that can contribute to complications (band slips, stomach or esophageal dilation, etc.). Yesterday's thread about band removals mentioned patients whose band problems started while they were at their goal weight, so it's not reasonable to say that weight regain causes band problems. But....keeping your band too tight when you've regained weight is unwise because that weight regain probably includes increased visceral fat (the fat surrounding your stomach and internal organs) that can increase the pressure of the band against your stomach, and that's what can lead to even more problems.

Anyway, I think it's great that you've acknowledged the weight gain and have a plan to deal with it before the 15 pounds becomes 50 pounds.

Jean

2012 was a great year in some ways, in others not so much.  I started a private tutoring business out of my home.  It's going well.  One resolution is to bring in at least 2 more students.  My house is well organized (of course had to do it with parents bringing their children for lessons).  It has been a tough year health wise.  I was banded in 2009 and lost 100 pounds.  I have gained back about 50 of it.  Never thought that would happen.  For sure, one resolution is to loose at least 35 of it.  I've been told I got too thin, I am going to see how I feel at 130.  Toward that resolution,  I am going to eat right and exercise. I am going to try "carb cycling"  I have heard really good things about it.  I ordered a book that should come any day now.  Can't wait to read it and get started.

Thank you Jean for your reply. You are right, it won't help to worry about it. I am 58 now and it seems I worry more than I ever have then I was younger. I have gained the weight back by eating too many calories and not exercising. I especially like sweets. For awhile when I was down to 180 I could eat something sweet in the morning and not gain anything. But it caught up with me. I started putting on the pounds around August.  

It is difficult for me to exercise due to health problems. Something always popping up. I started classes at the gym and my carpal tunnel started up. Then it was the back, etc. I have chronic vertigo so I have to be careful not to do too much head movement or it starts up the spins. A challenging experience to say the least.

I like that you have posted what you ate and I notice from you signature you have written a book? Could you give me some information about it? Linda