Day 22 was yesterday, but I'm posting this today.
I started blogging again yesterday, January 22, 2019. My intent was to begin a new blog about my nascent journey to fitness. I don't want a new blog, though. I already have this blog, and I like it. It's been around a while, and it's about something that's important to me. So now this blog will be about reclaiming my health and building my writing career.
I haven't posted on this blog since June 2014. I had just self-published a YA novel called Speed of Light. I was confident that self-publishing was the road I would take with my writing career, and I turned up my nose at anything outside of complete independence. But I got bored with blogging and left. And after a few more self-published titles I became disillusioned and stopped writing. And after my twenty-somethingth attempt to lose weight and get fit and seeing yet another failure, I gave up.
This year, though, I made three promises to myself. I don't believe in resolutions because I can't keep them. But I can keep a promise.
I started working on the second of these promises back in late August. It wasn't a promise then, I just wanted to write a book for my daughter for her birthday, but it gave me something to work with as I jump back into the writing life. I tackled the first of them on the first day of January because, "Why not?" The third started last night and below is what I wrote:
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Day 22 seems like an odd place to begin. You may have found this blog and come back to the beginning expecting Day 1, or "Here I go!" or something of the like. I'm a procrastinator, though, and while I knew I wanted to blog this journey, the journey wasn't ready to get blogged.
Until tonight.
So here it is, and here's how I'm going to justify my late start: The first 21 days were designed to establish good habits and routines. Blogging is part of the next phase.
Yes, that's it.
So here I am. It's 11:19 pm on January 22, 2019. I've lost 19.8 pounds in the first 21 days of this new year, and I'm happy with the strong start. My first "little goal" was to achieve a 4% weight loss in order to win the DietBet I entered at the beginning of the month. I hit that number two days ago and thought, This would make a great blog post, and it will, but later, because tonight is only about getting started.
Isn't that what some of the greatest things in life are about? Finally getting started?
We're started.
Today is the first day of Week Four in my project notebook. It's the 22nd day of Mission 44, the overall 13-month project. It's the 22nd day of Project 43, the 31-day kickstart to get everything going. In those first 21 days I've lost enough weight to win my DietBet (I lost this time last year), buy some new exercise shorts (first time in ten years), and straighten out my blood sugar (although it still seems erratic). These first 21 days have been life-changing, and I'm looking forward to writing all about them through the rest of January. I'm not sure where we will go after that, but we're finally started, so those days will be worked out when we get there.
Tonight, though, I need a good night's sleep. See you tomorrow.
I haven't posted on this blog since June 2014. I had just self-published a YA novel called Speed of Light. I was confident that self-publishing was the road I would take with my writing career, and I turned up my nose at anything outside of complete independence. But I got bored with blogging and left. And after a few more self-published titles I became disillusioned and stopped writing. And after my twenty-somethingth attempt to lose weight and get fit and seeing yet another failure, I gave up.
This year, though, I made three promises to myself. I don't believe in resolutions because I can't keep them. But I can keep a promise.
- I promise to write and publish books, one way or the other.
- I promise to get into the best shape of my life.
- I promise to document both of these things to hold myself accountable, to share my story, and to remember.
I started working on the second of these promises back in late August. It wasn't a promise then, I just wanted to write a book for my daughter for her birthday, but it gave me something to work with as I jump back into the writing life. I tackled the first of them on the first day of January because, "Why not?" The third started last night and below is what I wrote:
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Day 22 seems like an odd place to begin. You may have found this blog and come back to the beginning expecting Day 1, or "Here I go!" or something of the like. I'm a procrastinator, though, and while I knew I wanted to blog this journey, the journey wasn't ready to get blogged.
Until tonight.
So here it is, and here's how I'm going to justify my late start: The first 21 days were designed to establish good habits and routines. Blogging is part of the next phase.
Yes, that's it.
So here I am. It's 11:19 pm on January 22, 2019. I've lost 19.8 pounds in the first 21 days of this new year, and I'm happy with the strong start. My first "little goal" was to achieve a 4% weight loss in order to win the DietBet I entered at the beginning of the month. I hit that number two days ago and thought, This would make a great blog post, and it will, but later, because tonight is only about getting started.
Isn't that what some of the greatest things in life are about? Finally getting started?
We're started.
Today is the first day of Week Four in my project notebook. It's the 22nd day of Mission 44, the overall 13-month project. It's the 22nd day of Project 43, the 31-day kickstart to get everything going. In those first 21 days I've lost enough weight to win my DietBet (I lost this time last year), buy some new exercise shorts (first time in ten years), and straighten out my blood sugar (although it still seems erratic). These first 21 days have been life-changing, and I'm looking forward to writing all about them through the rest of January. I'm not sure where we will go after that, but we're finally started, so those days will be worked out when we get there.
Tonight, though, I need a good night's sleep. See you tomorrow.
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