Resolutions

So, normally I don’t really do the whole New Years Resolution thing, because I have always seemed to fail when I have tried. But this year is different. This year I am really taking the time to focus on myself, and change the things in my life that have held me back for years. While traveling over Christmas, I wrote a few blog entries that never made it up. Partly because I was busy with family , partly because I was just lazy, but partly because I had some really exciting things happen over the holidays.

In early December I got an email from my gym promoting a contest for a new program they were launching this year. They were calling it Make A Difference 2010, and it included 3 days a week in a 6 person class with a personal trainer, 2x a month with a nutritionist for the first few months, then 1x per month for the remainder of the year. To enter the contest, I had to submit an essay detailing why changing my life and living a healthier life is important to me. I sat down to write and kept struggling to get the wording right when it hit me that I was having a hard time wording it correctly because I had already written my essay–as blog posts! So I cut and pasted and added what I needed to write the best essay I could. And the following week, as I was traveling, thinking I hadn’t been chosen, I received a call from one of the trainers requesting a phone interview with me, since I was on the road. Several days later, I got the call I had been hoping for and my whole family (yep, my husband, kids, and even a few of my siblings, dad and stepmom) could guess what I heard when I started cheering and jumping up and down in the middle of my dad’s kitchen- I had been chosen as one of the 12 participants from my gym to have the opportunity to take part in this program!

I just completed the first of the assessments provided by the program and have another scheduled for this weekend. The  complimentary assessments include: CardioPoint (identify the heart rate zones in which my workouts are most effective), CaloriePoint (learn how many calories my body burns naturally)and  RiskPoint (a thorough analysis of my overall health).  The program actually begins in a little less than 2 weeks- January 25, which also happens to be my birthday! I am so excited to begin this program. I am looking forward to the challenge that it will provide to me, to the consistency and accountability I will have. This will help me stay on track to run that 15k in July that I have committed to. I look forward to seeing what life changes this opportunity will provide to me.