Happy New Year... and Long Time No Blog!!!... lol

so christmas came and went... it was fabulous... spent an entire week with my parents and even prepared a raw day for them... the day after christmas was our raw day... fitting, since i clearly needed a serious cleanse... lol... and then new years came and went... i attended a new years eve party and then did something i KNEW i shouldn't have done... i made some ridiculous "resolutions" in my head about how the new year was going to be and then promptly proceeded to do a double flip, triple pirouette and twist as i dove off the raw food wagon and straight into the SAD binge of a lifetime... it would have rated a 12 on a ten point scale if olympic judges were evaluating my performance... it caused even me to stop and pause for a moment... but clearly, i didn't pause long enough... i can honestly say that i have been terrified of getting back on the scale to see just what kind of havoc i have wreaked on my lifestyle plan over the holidays... so i came up with a new plan... NO SCALE... at least, not until i go for my doctors visit in march... i'm just going to work my plan and plan my work and see where that takes me... i don't want this to be about the scale... blood pressure remains good, but blood sugar is way too high... so i know what i need to do... by the end of the first week i set a new start date for my lifestyle changes... and on the 10th of january i began... just five steps for me to follow on a weekly basis... 1) i must have a raw breakfast every morning... 2) i must do at least one day per week at 100% raw... 3) i must exercise at least two days per week for at least 15 minutes doing some type of interval and/or strength training... 4) i must not eat after 8pm... if i'm absolutely starving and HAVE to have something, it must be raw... and 5) i must go upstairs by 10:30pm and be in bed by 11 each night... the last one was really hard for me (i'm a night owl)... but i can honestly say that i was 100% successful for seven days... i had a slight relapse today and i'm still up... anyway, my goal is to do this again for this week... i can't change the past, but i can control this moment and plan for the future... that being said, i think i should try to go to sleep even though i'm technically off tomorrow... i'll be back :)... hopefully sooner than it took me to get back last time... lol