Remember how last summer I declared that I was going to lose 50 pounds? (Click Here for The "I'm going to lose 50 pounds" declaration post). Since then I've been burning 1000+ calories a day on the stepper and facebooking the pictures of my work out summaries.
Today, when I got on the scale, I was so happy that I had to go get Charlie and Allison to witness what it said! No, I haven't lost 50 pounds yet, but I can see it in my sights. So far I've lost.... Drum Roll Please..... (you know Christmas Vacation style), I have lost (Joy To The World):
31.4 pounds!!!
Yesterday I happened to bump into several people I haven't seen in a while and they all had the same reaction: "OMG! You've lost weight! What did you do?" I like those comments, but they scare me a bit because I'm not there yet, there is no cause for celebrating (eating) now - and I'm going to take a lesson from Oprah - the one she didn't learn after she rolled that red wagon full of lard out onto stage - she went out and ate to celebrate. I will not do that! It was too hard to get here. Once I'm at my goal, I'm going to stick it (you known like when you land a really awesome gymnastics trick - you got to stick it and then put your hands up champion style and turn around several times so everyone can see how awesome your trick was).
Which leads me to my "One Little Word" this year:
After my entire family, one by one, had the stomach flu the first week of this new year; I had the undeniable urge to clean and re-organize every single thing we own. I spent the first weekend of the year bringing Charlie popsicles so he had enough strength to help me sort legos (millions of tiny little lego pieces) while I completely clean sweeped - Peter Walsh Style - without the yardsale - my son's room and his room is now completely clean and organized - every single centimeter. Really.
{Having buckets all over your house "just in case" makes you want to really clean up afterwards.}
The cleansweeping has now spread to the rest of the house and my office at work - actually it willl spread to everything we own. Its kind of like we are moving but without actually moving. Every single inch is being reconsidered. A few mornings ago I woke up at 4 am with my brain racing and basically dictating to me the entire reorganization plan. I lay there for about an hour listening visualizing all my brain had decided while I was sleeping. Most of my biggest decisions are made while I'm sleeping and I wake up with the answer and the plan. Maybe its divine intervention. Whatever it is I love it when it comes - so much inspiration and creativity and alive-ness - all at once. Maybe its this cold weather we're having - it makes me come to life and somehow I no longer need to sleep - like the reverse of hibernation - I've been operating on less than 4 hours of sleep for over a week now, althought last night I did get a good solid 10 and while I had the stomach flu I slept for 48 hours straight so I'm probably still averaging 8 hours a night for 2011 - just not 8 hours each night. Anyway, I woke up wide awake at 4 with the plan and lay there till 5 and then ran downstairs and wrote out 20 pages of notes on the plan, then woke Charlie up at 6 to give him some coffee while I told him about the plan. Before I started I told him that I had already made up my mind on all this stuff, so you'd better just listen honey because I'm not asking for your opinion - although I do care about it - I have a plan and need your muscles to move the heavy stuff, and just sit there and listen while I tell you what it is. As offensive as it sounds to dictate to my husband what we're going to; most of our big decisions have gone down like that. I formulate a plan, let him know what it is, and then he takes over in the implementation stage and I let him decide on all the nitty gritty details of exactly how everything is going to work. I'm big picture girl and he's fine detail man. It works. And that's where we are now. The inspiration came while I was sleeping. I wrote it down on Hello Kitty paper; 1. because I'm a 40 year old working mom and sometimes I forget stuff and 2. because I'm a sucker for anything Hello Kitty. I shared the plan. And now Charlie is going to Home Depot and implementing my plans. Charlie loves the implementation stage - the action - and he is very good at it - at home and at the office. I'm great with the start up - he comes through with the follow through. Together we make an awesome team.
Which brings me to my "One Little Word" of the year - I know I took a long winded way to get here, but it came to me when I woke up this morning - I hadn't really decided on what it was going to be. But in my sleep, I either got a message from something divine or my brain decided that the word of the year is going to be:
AWESOME!
Maybe its because I've been listening to Madonna on Pandora with lots of Cyndi Lauper and Prince thrown in.
Maybe its because I can finally start to see the body I had in high school - which was awesome by the way - seriously awesome.
Maybe its because I'm making my home and office environment awesome.
Who knows, but it feels right, really right. You could say, it feels AWESOME!
So there you have it. The word of the year is AWESOME! and I'm in full "Awesome Implementation Mode" in every single area of my life.
I'm probably going to start quoting Madonna in my everyday speech, but I think that's awesome too.
I'll post pictures of my Awesome changes soon.
Oh, one more thing, my mascot of the year is the BIRD, more on that to come too.
Katie.
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