New Years Resolutions

Yes it is indeed that time of the year again, when thousands of people, if not millions, take up the notion that they are going to keep their New Years Resolutions.  Over the years I have learnt that this is just not possible for me or my friends, so I say...........................why bother.

Rather than forcing myself to make changes which I know I am just not going to be able to do, I resolve to make changes when I think I'm ready for it.  I gave up smoking nearly 3 years ago but I didn't resolve to stop smoking in the New Year I wasn't ready to give up then.  I needed the time to get myself adjusted to the fact that I wanted to give up smoking that I thought it was something that I really wanted to do.  June was the time that I decided to this and it has worked for me.  Of course you should never say never, and sometimes I still miss it, when out with friends in the pub or if the kids are driving me completely up the wall.  However, it is now a choice for me.  And believe it or not, I chose not to smoke.  Hooray for me.

So this year my delectable husband has decided to join a gym and get "fit", not that I'm being a pessimistic but I give him 3 weeks tops.  Just because I know my husband and he is very much like me.  He feels pressured into doing something because I'm watching what I eat and am starting to look after myself.  Now I'm saying the "D" word as that always backfires on anyone.  However, I will say that I am looking after myself which is a long time coming.  I'm the heaviest that I have been for a long time and to be brutally honest I hate it.  So it's time for a change and I'm ready to do it.  I have the confidence to do it and more importantly I have the energy to do and want to do it.  Although I did start it before Christmas so not even this is a New Years Resolution but it is a continuance of what I started.

So for all of you who have started New Years Resolutions I say pah to them and Huzzah to a new way of thinking.