Goal Post I: From Felix to Felicity

I used to make New Year's resolutions by the dozen, but I don't seem to do that these days. Still, I've been thinking a lot about what I'd like to change this year, where I'd like to be at the end of it. I'm starting tonight with the physical: I have some baby weight to take off, and it is not going to go away if I continue raiding the bag of caramel kisses. I'm going to use a strategy that's worked for me before with excellent effects on my disposition and energy level: five servings of vegetables a day plus a gallon of water and NO SWEETS. I've had the vague idea of getting started every day this week, but now I am posting it on the web so I'll have to stick to it. Tomorrow is the feast of an obscure St. Felix, and my plan is to eat this way until the feast of St. Felicity (and St. Perpetua) on March 7. I'm also going to aim for some gentle exercise four days each week -- gentle as in walking briskly to pick the boys up from school. I'm still feeling a little too newly postpartum to try running just yet.

Comments

[Amma Always]

You STILL have some baby fat???!!! You are STILL feeling a little too newly post partum!!! Good Lord, woman, you were, as of the day of this post, only 2 weeks from having a baby. And having said baby beautifully majestically, may I add. But it seems a little early to be berating yourself for not being the cultural picture of the perfect, thin and exercising woman. I bet you are just adorable for right now! Take a break. Unless....

Maybe all the vegetables is a secret way to get kids to love vegetables. Maybe if that's what they get (for the most part) for a few months, they develop a taste for them. Very interesting.

[CJ]

Oh, I'm not berating myself at all -- just thinking aloud about eating better, moving more. I'm not telling myself I need to eat any less food, just better food and more water. And it's not so much the cultural ideal as the reality of life with five children -- I need to get back into gear more quickly than I might like to. :-)