Die Verwandlung

New Year’s Resolutions:

1. There’s talk about a new food (cooking/eating out) blog with several friends. I want to participate actively.
2. 2010 is the year of not eating fast food. The only exception will be the occasional visit to Subway. The list of non-allowed places includes Zaxby’s and Moe’s. The list of allowed (but largely avoided) places includes Hot Dog King. Here’s to healthier eating.
3. In addition to the fast food fast, I’m also going to avoid soft drinks in 2010. In this context, soft drinks includes sweet iced-tea but not hot tea, even sweetened and creamed.
4. Resume walking to work consistently - at least 3 days a week. I’m willing to give that up for a few months in the summer, but …
5. Save and spend my money more intelligently, allowing me to purchase a bicycle and go on my mom’s birthday-bicycling-trip to Europe this spring/summer.
6. Have people over for dinner/games/coffee/whatever else regularly.
7. This will be the hardest of these. At no time during the 2010 football season will I start a sentence with: “If C.J. Spiller were still here, …”

One thing that I have discovered about myself is that if I attempt to impose a “personal” discipline, I’ll keep it up for a week or two and in a weak moment, give in. However, if I’ve told anybody about it, that weak moment loses most of its power over me.

There are several expected benefits to keeping these resolutions. The amount of money I throw away on fast food terrifies me. The amount of fast food that that means I consume is even more terrifying. Walking/biking to work is “automatic” exercise. Success in these resolutions should have me leaving 2010 happier and healthier than I entered it.