Starting Over

January 27, 2009 – 2:20 pm |

Patient and enduring readers of Mommy Tracks know that in the summer of 2007, at the urging of my friend Dana, I got drunk and ran ten miles.   I felt great.  I lost weight.  I -almost- became friends with my longtime foe, “Running”.  2007 was a great year for my physical health. 

In 2008, on the heels of that run, Dana trained for and completed her first marathon.  I avoided her encouragement and chose a different path: Quit exercising, eat more, and race quickly back to my starting weight.  I was equally successful.

Accordingly, now that it’s 2009, I decided it was time to once again take control of my physical health.  Yesterday, I officially joined Weight Watchers Online.  I find the Weight Watchers rules a little confusing.  More points bad, fewer points good. Like golf (another sport that hates me).  I maintain I should get MORE and not FEWER points for good behavior.  I also find the measurements a little ridiculous.  Who can eat a 1/2 cup of cold cereal?  I am going to need some smaller cereal bowls.  Overall, though, I like the idea of accountability. It’s like an electronic sticker chart, and I love sticker charts almost as much as I hate running.

Besides the healthy living, I’m also resolved, resigned?, to keep blogging.  What’s on your sticker chart for ‘09?