Hello 2009! & Thanks, Anne!

Hello! it's a new year and i am back to try again. i enrolled in a healthy eating/weight loss class that our local grocery store is sponsoring. i am in the middle of week #1. it lasts for 8 weeks, so i am hoping it will be a help to push me over the top of the hill i have been trying to get over for the last 6 months or more. we need to show our food log for class, so that is a motivator for me. we also need to list goals for the week in food (3 meals/day with one afternoon snack), fitness (treadmill for 40 minutes 4 times per week) and behavior (food log for 5 days/week and get back on the "healthy you" blog 1 time/week). the accountability is so good for me. [it costs some money too and if i go to all the classes and reach my weight goal i get 20% back... i'm cheap so that is another insentive! :) ] i have missed all of you and hope your journeys have been good in the time i have been away. i am looking forward to touching base with you. it was really hard to keep blogging when i was not making any progress and into such spits and spurts. i found this quote from Anne Sullivan that i thought most appropriate. i think it needs a permanent place on this blog!
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start over again, and you will grow stronger, until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.