[Sparkle]

Hello Healthy People

I love reading the posts in this thread, yay for each and every step that you've all taken!

I fell out of my gym routine and my nutritionist recommended eating plan over the holidays. I wasn't *horrid*, I made it to the gym a few times and I only over-indulged a few times between Thanksgiving and New Years. But I really lost my momentum.

I managed to maintain my weight (with 3lbs fluctuation in either direction) during those 6 weeks. But I've hit a weight loss plateau since my hip injury in November. I feel frustrated and I've been struggling with daily motivation and consistency.

My annual winter inertia has set in, good and proper.

I'm not a new years resolution type person, but I do try to make time to reflect on the year that closes: to consider what I want more of and what I want less of in the year to come.

This year I want to continue making small every day healthy changes and choices. I want to cook more for *myself*. I want to run more, do more pilates and dance more (around the kitchen while i cook, if need be)... and I want to read more, listen to more music, go to the cinema more. I want to go to bed at a more reasonable hour, more often.

And to those ends, today I have made a big change that I believe will help me continue progressing in my healthy lifestyle, I have cut the cable television umbilical core. No more 300-gazillion channels of mostly crap programming. No more on-demand everything. No more HGTV as "company". No more glazed eyed channel flipping. No more staying up too late watching repeats of Project Runway or the same 5 episodes of Criminal Minds.

In reflecting upon how I was spending my (non-work) time I was a little disgusted with how much time I spent on the sofa in front of the telly. For over 15years of my life I didn't have cable television and I thrived. I went out and did things (whatever the weather), I read a few books a month, I tried new things, I walked places, I wrote long emails to far away friends, I discovered new foods and new films and new music... I spent more time with my friends.

So as of today, I've cut my television service back to only the most basic of channels a handful of local stations for the news and PBS.

I think I might experience some withdrawl symptoms, especially this weekend when its cold and dark and snowy...

But ultimately I think eliminating this (mostly) mindless distraction is going to give me the motivation I need to get to the gym more, to cook more, to read more...

/and that is where I'm at!