Small Changes

My life is a work in progress (some days I feel like is more advanced than others) and can never escape the need to make changes that the new year rolls

In the past I have found are not drastic changes to be sustainable. Even my list of monthly changes in the last year did not last June.

However, my commitment to make the soup was a great success and has served me well. In fact, today's lunch was soup (cabbage, sweet potato and red lentil soup with turkey house) that I made and froze a few weeks ago. During a week of chemotherapy, when it feels good to eat something, it's a real treat to have something easy to heat and eat healthy.

This year I decided I'd better make a small change every week. And so far it works pretty well. It was not perfect, but the changes are the addition and I feel like new, healthy habits are being created.

So today, on the eve of Chinese New Year when it seems appropriate to tell the truth about the blog and make my changes public. You can all help me stay accountable.

And let me know if you make healthy changes to date in 2011. I realized the other day that I am far from alone. More BlogHer they talked of little steps to get healthy for the entire month of January. How I miss that?

Here are my changes so far:

Week 1: Weigh and record my weight every Monday.

Week 2: start doing strength training exercises developed for cancer survivors. I made these days to run and plan to work up to about thirty minutes three times a week.

Week 3: Drink no more than five alcoholic beverages per week. I went across the border every week so far but not much.

Week 4: Drink more water. My nutritionist recommends drinking a lot of half-ounce of my weight in pounds. It's a lot of water.

Week 5: meditate every day. From five minutes and work my way up to twenty. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while. So far this week, I was meditating ten times two minutes each time. It's a start.