Oooo it has been a year!!!

I've spent a very long short year away from my blog.  I think I've wanted to change the tone of it quite a bit.  It has been very hard to decide which direction to go, since there are so many.  For now I think I will go with what has been most prevalent in my life currently. 

Awhile back I was diagnosed with hypertension.  High blood pressure sucks.  I'm not enjoying it.  I'm also very close to being diabetic.  Most of these problems were brought on by stress and being a bit of a fat cow really.  I'm pretty honest about my weight.  My life has gotten in such a place where I have just really let myself go and it hasn't been helpful to any section of my life anywhere other than my deep down love of being lazy.  Lazy kind of runs in my family.  I'd like to think my sister died from lazy.  It is easier than thinking she just died of stupid.

I've decided to do something about my lazy.  My sister died when she was only 5 years older than I am now.  I'm not nearly as overweight as my sister got, but I'm hefty enough to be very worried about living for awhile.  In order to battle this bulge and battle the lazy, I bought a Fitbit.  You can find it at www.fitbit.com.   What a little piece of fun weirdness it is.  It works off of the same concept of the Wii motion stuff.  You do have to log a lot of information daily if you want a more accurate portrayal of your activities, but it also makes you very conscious of how inactive you tend to be.  Since I was diagnosed with the illnesses mentioned above, I've lost 14 lbs.  Most of that was just cutting back lightly on the crappy food I love consuming.  I love consuming good food too, so I'm a little blessed that way.  I'm really excited about this new gadget though.  It allows me to be just as anal retentive as I want to be about what I log and monitors me even if I'm not.  It monitors your sleep habits, by letting you know how many times you toss and turn and waken during the night.  It is a BEAUTIFUL pedometer.  I have always had issues with pedometers.  They never read me accurately.  This one, since it works off of a different premise than the cheap ones, has been excellent at counting my steps.

So here we go kids, off on a weight loss journey, a fitness journey, a healthy food journey, but really what is probably a very healthy mid-life crisis.  I'm scared of dying.  I'd like to hold it off as long as possible.  I can't control getting run over by a random bus, other than by staying out of the street, but I certainly can manage my health better.  I wouldn't be opposed much if it helped my moody nature either :D