New Year Resolutions

Had a lovely Christmas with my family.  It makes a change from last year when I was stuck in hospital.  New Year's Eve was okay too.  I normally cry hysterically at midnight because of the rubbish year that's just passed and the new year that's bound to go exactly the same.  But not this year.  I'm quietly confident things are going to get better.

My New Year Resolutions

 Lose 40 - 50kg.  
This sounds ambitious but I've got a professional diet plan drawn up and now have a diet counselor so I'm confident this goal can be achievable with the right mindset.

My starting weight is 111.8kg

To help me succeed in this goal I have the following sub-resolutions:

a) No eating in bed.
I got into bad habits in hospital because I don't like eating in front of people.  I would take stashes of food back to my bed and eat it late at night.  My medication also leaves me feeling peckish and I often sneak forbidden foods up to bed and scoff them.  I'm hoping banning all food from my bedroom will help with this.

b) Clean teeth every night
Again, when you're feeling depressed teeth-cleaning isn't a priority.  I rarely brush my teeth at bedtime.  By doing this I'm hoping that it'll stop me from wanting to eat.  Nothing tastes good after toothpaste!

c) Only take water to bed.
I often will take fizzy drinks or milk to bed which discourages teeth-cleaning.  I'm only going to take a glass of water to bed with me.  

d) Limit gym sessions to 3 x 30 min work outs per week with an optional 4th workout of up to 1 hour.
I have a tendency to exercise in an extreme fashion which leads to unattainable fitness goals.  I feel like a failure if I don't burn 800 calories off each day.  Hopefully by just going for 30 mins at a time I can keep exercising goals at a realistic level.


e) Limit weighing myself to once weekly (twice max).
Another problem I have is excessive weighing.  On a diet I often weigh myself three or four times per day (or basically any time I walk past the scales).  This time I'm going to have a weekly weigh in (and maybe a sneaky-peak midweek) to try and become less obsessive about my weight.