Low Carb Confidential

For a lot of people, this was a pretty crappy year. In comparison, I have little to complain about.

Regarding weight, I did not gain a lot  – but I didn’t lose what I wanted to lose either. I pretty much am where I was at the same time last year. I can console myself that at least I’m more or less at my married weight, and my wife didn’t get ‘more than she bargained for’, but there’s 40 lbs I wanted to drop this year and they didn’t drop.

While I’m a big believer in personal responsibility, in this particular instance, I am going to blame the year 2009 for any and all shortcomings in achieving my weight loss goals.

Tonight I say good riddance to 2009 and tell it: “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out the door.”

Having scapegoated 2009, I can start fresh in 2010 with new resolve and new goals. I spent some time writing them down in detail – I believe in writing down specific goals in a manner that states them as if they’ve already happened.

I have a number of goals, but the one regarding my weight is as follows:

I am 174 lbs on December 31, 2010.

If you don’t make New Year’s resolutions, you might want to try something like the above. What usually happens is people make some pronouncement on New Year’s eve, then blow it on New Year’s day – and forget their resolution.

If you make a resolution like mine, what you do on any given day doesn’t matter. It’s what you do the whole year that matters. If you resolve to get serious on your low carb diet, then have cake on New Year’s day, there’s still 364 days to make up for that.

Happy New Year’s – and here’s wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010.

Filed under: Goals, low carb, Personal Journal