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Ahhh, here we are. A brand new year, all shiny, clean, and sparkling new. Can’t you just smell the new all over it? You know, kind of like the awesomeness of new car smell. I just love the anticipation of a New Year. Much like that new car smell, there’s just nothing else quite like it.
For me, this new year means making a new start. As I mentioned in my post several days ago about Scale Reality & New Year Goals, I knew I was going to end this year at pretty much the same weight I started it. I was feeling pretty down about myself about it initially, but then my wonderful friend Karen reminded me that there’s no shame in maintaining for a while. After all, at least I’m not ending the year weighing MORE than when I started.
But, enough of the past! This is 2012 and I’m all geared up for a NEW START to go with the new year. Thankfully, my Weight Watchers center was open on New Year’s Day this year. I can’t remember a time in the past where they’ve ever done that, so I was thrilled that not only could I get to my regular Sunday meeting, I could get to one on January 1, too. How awesome is that?! So, I got myself up bright and early this morning and headed over to my Weight Watchers meeting, by way of Starbucks. 
Sadly, the red holiday cups are gone for another, but at least I was still able to get a Skinny Peppermint Mocha still (4 PP for the Venti).
The topic for this week’s meeting was all about “believe” which goes hand-in-hand with their new ad campaign. Have you see any of the new commercials? If you were watching ABC’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve last night, you probably spotted one of them. If you looked closely, you might’ve spotted the awesome @SuziStorm who blogs over at Ok, Just One More Beer. She’s lost 91 pounds on Weight Watchers and looks amazeballs!! If you want to see even more Weight Watchers videos, check our their YouTube channel!
Back to the meeting, we talked a lot about what things have caused us to stumble on our weight loss journey in the past. We then brain-stormed about tools that we have available as Weight Watchers members that will help us overcome those old issues. Using those tools will help us be successful and we can believe and have faith that we can reach our goals. We even ended the meeting with an awesome quote seen in the photo which also includes my incredible leader, Jacki (can you believe she was once 100 pounds heavier?!!). If you can’t read the quote, just click on the photo for a large version which should be easier to read.
As if the quote wasn’t inspiring enough on it’s own, I happened to glance to my left and see this poster hanging on the wall next to me. It’s the cumulative total of all the weight loss at our center during 2011. Amazing!! Hopefully we can smash that total in 2012!
After I left the meeting, I headed over to the supermarket and stocked up on lots of healthy foods, including lots of fresh fruit & veggies. When I got it home, I decided Jan. 1 would be a great day to get my kitchen all organized again as I was putting the food away. I feel so ready to go with my healthy eating in 2012! There’s just nothing quite like being organized to make sticking with a plan so much more manageable.
Once I had that done, I prepared myself a nice healthy lunch (sorry, no pic) and then settled in for an afternoon of relaxation which included a bit of stitching time. My January 1 new stitching start for this year (yes, I do it one every year) was Royal Holiday from one of my favorite designers, Mirabilia. I don’t have enough done yet to really post a photo, so I’ll do that in a few days after I have a bit more done.
I had planned on including my goals for the next two months in this post, but I think it’s long enough already. 
I’ll save my goals for tomorrow’s post. I’ll also be writing about an exciting year-long project I’ll be taking part in over at the Sisterhood, too. I can’t wait to tell you all more about that!
I do have one last thing to share about before I go for today. I’ve decided to take part in the 30 Day Blog Challenge hosted by Jamee over at A New Kind of Normal. Since I’m really striving to blog on a daily basis again after merging my blogs, I thought this would be a great way to ensure it actually happens. 
It will also give new readers to my blog (hello weight loss resolutioners ) a chance to learn a little bit more about me. The challenge for today is to post a photo of yourself and description how your day went. Since I’ve already posted about how my day went, I’ll just leave you with a photo of me taken recently with my sweet kitty, Brandi.
Until next time …
The darker orts on the top of the pile are from some recent stitching I’ve done on my Hannah Beeby 1816 reproduction sampler from Timeless Designs.
