quarter year check

Can you believe we are almost a 4th of the way through the year already?

Crazy.

I thought I would do a little update on how I am doing on all my goals for the year.

Cause I am really focused on them.

I am really eating well and working out 4ish days a week.

My body feels so much better when I put good food into it.

I have occasional cheat days and I am nearly always hungry but I still feel better.

But I read somewhere that you shouldn't fear hunger, so I don't. 

There are worse things than being hungry.

(I know someone is going to comment about the 6 small meals helping to keep you full.  I do that.  It's not working. And I eat lots of fiber and protein.  I am just hungry!)

The scale isn't moving much, but I am to the point of really exercising for health and not for a bikini body.

Cause, let's face it, mama ain't never wearing one of those again...

I am extremely proud of how I am doing on the whole "don't care so much what others think."

I don't know if it is just me getting older and more comfortable with myself,

but I have really made changes here.

And it is so freeing!

My feelings don't get hurt if someone doesn't call me back.

I don't read into things.

I am me.

And I love me!

I have a little work to do on being a better friend.

I have missed lots of book clubs and Mom's nights out.

But I am blaming sickness and fevers and a husband who is slammed at work on this one.

Totally not my fault.

I have made dinner for a fellow preschool mom who was mired down in sickness.

And have sent random cards.

And took banana bread to a neighbor.

So I am trying.

(tooting own horn here)

I haven't really stepped out of my comfort zone yet.

We went dancing last weekend and I danced with abandoned.

And I am NOT a good dancer.

Does that count?

Or the fact that I ran my first under 10 minute mile?

Maybe that counts?

I still have no patience.

Poor Ellie.

And I still don't like water.

Blech.

And I still haven't done something just for me yet.

But I am kinda diggin' hanging with my family right now.

Haven't really felt the urge yet.

And that's where I am a quarter of the way in.