New Year...New and Improved Trista (complete with the same old pearls)

I stepped on the scale this morning, and it read a depressing 191.6 pounds.  Personally, I don't think I look like I weigh 191 pounds, or feel like I weigh 191 pounds.  But the truth was staring at me from the digital screen of my Weight Watchers scale...191.6 pounds.

I could care less what the scale actually reads.  My entire life I have had hips, a big chest and butt.  This is something I have completely come to embrace about myself.  I am NEVER going to be a size 2 or 4 skinny mini.  I'm built bigger, and honestly, I like food (especially the homemade Mexican food I get from my dad's side of the family).  But what with many illnesses that run in the family, I do want to be healthier.  I'd rather work on this now than when I'm 40 and it's much more difficult.  

So it's January 1, Day 1 of my new lifestyle changes.  I am going to continue Bootcamp three times a week.  It is such a hardcore workout activity, but I love the way I feel after.  I am going to re-vamp my running -- I have my first half marathon in April in DC (NWMDC April 28th), among other runs for which I'm already registered.  I am also going to put better food into my body (I love eating healthy, but I have realized it is incredibly HARD being as busy as I seem to be).  

This is the year of me.  I feel like I say that same thing every year on December 31/January 1, but I actually believe it this year.  I don't know what has changed to make me believe it, but I have this new, exhilarating motivation to do great things this year...to push myself farther than the invisible boundaries I have created in my mind.  I can do anything I set my mind to, and I will.  I am done with saying, "I can't."  This year, and from now on...I CAN!  2013 is my year!