a new year. time to be resolute!

I have been thinking of some personal plans for myself for this new year.  plans that I want to continue throughout the rest of my life (may it be really really long)

in 2012 I was pregnant with Kellan.  also diagnosed with gestational diabetes - though after carefully monitoring my blood sugars for 5 months there is some serious debate as to whether I was diabetic at all!  I kind of feel like that was just a ploy by the clinic to make more money off of me....
anyway, what does this have to do with my 2014 resolutions?  well you see, I lost a lot of weight while pregnant with him.  I felt great about that alone... after he was born and my weight had a few weeks to level off, I had lost 60 pounds.
I was determined to have as healthy of a pregnancy as I could and so we went for walks down to the bridge at least 3 times a week.  not long walks but they were more than I had been doing.
I ate healthier foods when I could stomach any.
I cut pop out of my life - only with the occasional pop when we were grocery shopping and I didn't want to buy a drink of water.  and by occasional I mean really rare.
after my diabetes tests I limited my carbohydrates but it was more like portion control instead of cutting anything else out of my diet.  I was just more aware of how much I was eating or how much I was allowed to eat.  and most of the time I didn't even eat my full day's allowed carbs and I wasn't starving by a long shot.  I actually was full most of the time.

after Kellan was born, I had a lot of emotional crap going on because of my completely useless breasts that wouldn't just do what they were supposed to and make food for my baby.  I do admit that after 4 months of that struggle I threw caution to the wind and just pigged out on any and every comfort food I could get my piggy hands on.  I gained all those esteem boosting 60 pounds back.  no more esteem boost.
it also didn't help that nature was against me.  we had the coldest and longest spring we have ever ever had.  snow in May for crying out loud!  drissle-y cold rain on a daily basis well into June. then we had monster hatchings of mosquitoes after that and there was no way I was going to take my baby out in that plague of insects for a walk to the bridge.  we did go for a few walks down there, but it wasn't anything like 3 a week... it was more like 3 a month.

I don't have a baby growing in me to help speed along metabolism, but everything else is sound.
more exercise, healthier eating, no pop.  I'm never going to be a bombshell like I was when I was in my 20s, but I'm not going to look like this evil gingerbread dwelling hag anymore.