Restitutions & Resolutions!

I always make New Year's Resolutions. Every year they tend to be the same and I almost always know as soon as I make them I will more than likely find an excuse later on in the year to NOT keep them. Some of my past resolutions have been the same as many others. Stop smoking, drink less, lose weight, work out, be responsible, be a better mother etc...

This is the first year where I find myself not really having a resolution or wanting to even make any. Reflected on this past year and realized that I just want to live. Enjoy life. Appreciate every single smile from my daughters' faces. Soak up the love my husband gives me. To live in the moment and to stop stressing about the next minute, day, bill, weekend...

Losing weight is somewhere on that list, but not above getting healthy and eating right.

I always feel like people make resolutions based on unrealistic goals. Habits must change, routines must be broken, mind frames destroyed. How can you lose weight when you ritually suggest going out to eat every other night simply because it's easier than cooking and cleaning for yourself? How can you say you will stop smoking when you know that every time you drink you want a cigg-butt and tend to move mountains just to get one?

Before you work out your legs, muscles, arms and abs try working out your brain. That's the strongest thing in your whole anatomy. Your best friend and your worst enemy. Get that thing in shape and the rest will follow. You can stop doing whatever makes you hate yourself any time, not just when a year is over. Since when does a new year wipe a slate entirely clean...? Excuses people make to make themselves feel better about previous transgressions...

My new year's resolution for sure is to stop worrying about what other stupid people are doing.