Final Hot 100 Update

Well here is my final post for the Hot 100 for 2010. Click on this link to read my goals on for week one and one thing I must note – I just posted for the last 14 weeks a list with spelling mistakes in it … how sad is that

To summarize it all, I have finally realized where I need to improve in my wellness goals.  This past year has not been all that successful for me and that is because I was playing with it. I wasn’t taking myself seriously enough. I thought I knew what I was doing.. but alas… I’m still learning.

For this challenge I focused on working on more “Me” time and to a good extent, that worked. But I could do so much better and will continue to work on it in the years to come because it is very important to your well being. I need down time, I need to de-stress, I need to be happy and free in spirit.

My exercising was on and off and that happens with me but it was never completely gone. I did something each week. Maybe not 5x a week but I always did something. In the past it might have become months and months of inactivity. Walking in the Kidney March in September showed me I can do anything I want to if I set my mind to it cause believe me, it tried very hard during that first night in that tent to try to convince me that I could not do the walk. But I not only finished it, I felt great after.

Eating – well to be completely honest with myself and with you, that has been a joke. It wasn’t until I started to really watch the calories that went into my mouth that I realized I’d only been fooling myself that I was “eating for life”.  Well I guess I was but it wasn’t going to be a long life. I AM on a diet until I get to the weight I want to be at, and then I can "lifestyle eat”.

Steps – that’s a work in progress. Now that I got my Fitbit it is helping me get more active during the day. It increases my activity requirements each week so I have no where else to go but up…

Wasting food – that is an ongoing lifetime thing. I really have improved but can still do better.

So that pretty much summarizes my take on the Hot 100 Challenge. I really love the friendships that grow out of these things and the support you get from everyone. I especially love the fact that Steve goes to all this work for people he doesn’t even know… thanks again Steve for being such a powerhouse of support to everyone.

I wish all the best today, the last day of 2010 and looking forward to new challenges and friendships in 2011.

Have a fantastic night.

Sandra