WonderWoman

For the past few years I haven’t been very social.  I knew how to be and I knew I wanted to be more social but I didn’t like the weight I was at (207) and I didn’t like the clothes I had at that weight so I never really wanted to go anywhere.  Never really bought clothes either because I was always waiting to lose weight.  Anyway, I lost the weight and now I’m becoming more social again.  Being social was one of my New Years resolutions too so I tried my best to make it happen.   I hooked up with an old friend of mine and I joined a mommy group and we meet for playdates and one day a week we meet up for coffee at night.  Correction!  It went from coffee to drinks like beer.  Even the old friend I hooked up with was supposed to be a book club at first and now has changed to women talk with drinks.

Being social is helping my well being alot.  It gives me a reason to “pretty myself up” and vent about family, joke around, whatever.  But, now the exercise is slowly slipping away and so is some of the healthy eating.  Drinking can lead to eating can lead to being lazy and that leads to skipping the gym. 

What a circle!  I lost weight so I could feel more comfortable to be social but now being social is causing me to throw everything else out the window.  Surely this will cause me to gain weight and then withdraw from people and places again and I’ll be right back too where I was a year ago.   This was supposed to be the “Year of Jeanette”!  I was going to be more social and healthy and even join a race. 

Well, I’m recommitting.  It may be a slow kind of start but it’s heading in the right direction.   I need balance.  Last night I signed up for a race in March.   I’m not running it but walking it.  It was one of my goals for the New Year so I’m going to complete it.  I have to find balance.  I will find balance.  I had goals for the New Year and I have to remember them.  I just can’t pick one goal like being social and just run with that one.  I have to make all of them priorities. 

Forgive me Buddies for not being on much.  I have a son who is a senior in highschool and we are preparing for college choices right now and filling things out and……maybe I’m drinking too much too!  Kidding.   Have a good week buddies!