Wendy DeCora.com

One of my main goals in revamping my blog was to make it so I would want to use it and in using it, keep myself more accountable to projects and plans that rattle around in my head all the time but that I don’t act on for one reason or another. The idea is that if I declare something publically, a few of you out there will help keep me accountable or at least poke me with a stick from time to time to keep moving.

Its the first day of a month, and being one of those people who is ridiculously tied to starting things on a monday or on the first, etc., I give you my latest goal (which I actually started yesterday, on a Monday.):

To lose 30 pounds by my 30th birthday. Code name: 30×30

I look at my closet and realize two things;

1. I got rid of nearly all my fall/winter clothes last spring.
2. I don’t want to buy new clothes in a size or two larger than what the old clothes were.

I took a step back and looked at this from a long-term prospective. I know it is better to lose weight slowly rather than to try to be stupid and lose really fast. To lose thirty pounds by my next birthday, I only need to lose less than one pound per week. When I look at it that way, it seems very doable.

In the past I’ve tried restricting my diet extremely, which only makes me crazed *cough*SouthBeach*cough* and ends in failure after four days or so. So starting yesterday, I’ve decided to cut out all pop and alcohol. Its something small, but looking at my pile of recyclables, I do note that I’ve drunk a lot of pop in the last month or so. Way more than I would think I had. So it goes. I have also joined MyFoodDiary.com to keep track of my eating and exercise. Its $9/month with a “cancel anytime” policy, so I decided to give it a whirl. So far I like what I see. The personal accountablitity with graphs and charts very much appeals to my anal-retentive nature. Apparently you can have Because I am a SELF subscriber, I had access to SelfDietClub.com for free. However, I was getting what I paid for because that site didn’t support Firefox or Mac, so I would never use it.

As for the exercise component, my goal for this month is to go to the gym three times a week. Before I would get all gung ho and try to go everyday and if I didn’t make it one day, then I would give up, feeling like I had failed myself.

I’m trying to learn from past mistakes and make real progress this time. I’ve added a header in the middle column of the homepage with the countdown numbers.