One of my goals for this year (which is NOT a New Year’s Resolution, just something I’ve been planning for a while now) is to use this blog more. Prepare to hear a fair bit about weight loss and calorie counting, because I’m getting back on the wagon.

So. It’s a new year, and for the first time in, well, a bit over two years, I’m actually interested in calorie counting again. My interest in weight loss has come and gone over that time, but I was totally uninterested in calorie counting. Which is a shame, because it is the only thing that’s ever worked. Hey, last time I made it to goal weight! I hit 57.7kg!! The lightest I’d ever been in my adult life.

Unfortunately I wasn’t in a good place emotionally when I reached my goal, and the first few kilos came back on very quickly. And then, in 2010, my personal life became one big mess and then things really went to hell for a while. I gained a kilo a week for several months straight. That finished up with me being at about 81kg at the beginning of 2011. Now it’s the very beginning of 2012, and a few days ago I weighed in at 84kg.

I have to say, I’m quite pleased I recorded only a 3kg gain for the whole of 2011. For much of the year I wasn’t paying much care or attention to what I ate. My motivation to lose weight cycled up and down, and I tried any number of times to start losing weight again, but my heart was never really in it. It was like I needed a mental break after the tragic ending 2010 had.

But I’m back, and willing to count my food properly, and be accountable. If the first day of the year is supposed to set the course for the rest, then 2012 will be my year: I ate healthily, was productive, and felt physically better than I have done in a long time. (I’ll save explaining what’s wrong physically for another time.)

I would like to mention that this (also) is NOT a New Year’s Resolution: It’s been on my mind for a long while and things have just fallen into place to make now an ideal time to get started. Also, Resolutions tend to be made and then forgotten until next NYE: this is a choice I am making that I intend to carry through the year and beyond.

Bring on 2012!

PS. I notice I never came back and explained the cake I baked and posted about in my last post. I will fix that, soonish.