Control

 The last couple days one word has been coming up time and time again for me as I work on getting my weight loss journey moving again. At first I ignored it...but after a bunch of times of this word popping up, I decided it was time to sit back and listen. Right?

What is this word?  The word is control.

The first time the word came up was while I was watching a YouTube video that was posted by a gal that is working to lose weight. In her video she was talking about how she was in control and how it felt good.  It made me sit back and think about when I last felt in control of my eating.  It was a while and I well remember how amazing I felt.  It was so empowering!   I smiled at the memory and thought about getting that feeling back.   I thought about it enough that I filmed a clip for my YouTube channel about the word control!   In that clip I talked about control and that empowering feeling. In that same clip I also talked about how I had succumbed to stress eating.

Weirdly enough, I had a comment before I even posted my clip about how my word of the year should be control.  Hmmmm

And then this morning. I stepped on the scale and saw that my weight was up.  I was frustrated as I stood in the shower.  It is hard, seeing a gain makes me want to give up.  But I stopped and told myself. NO!  Get control of yourself.  (Yes, I said it out loud too!).   I thought about that clip I had filmed, and I realized that even the stress eating was me LOSING control.  Crazy!    Immediately I was stuck on the word control, and I knew that I HAD to make control my word of the..........

Nope, I've done a word of the year before.  I jumped on the bandwagon a few times over the years.  Most recently in 2020, my word of the year was Committed.  I remembered the word for a few days...but I always forget it. It becomes a thing of the past. So, it really does no good for me!   But, while I was in the shower this morning I thought that maybe, just maybe I could do a word of the week.  It could change and adjust to where I was in my life journey/weight loss journey/etc.   I decided that my word of the week would be written on the top page of each week in my dayplanner/journal.   I could reuse words.  Maybe control would be the word the whole year through. But maybe control would only be my focus for a week....or a month...or a half of year.   

So that is what I did....I have added the word in bold red and I'm ready to live that word this week!

Word of the year: Committed

As the year rolls to a close it is the time that we just naturally look forward to the new year.  We are getting new day planners and calendars and getting ready to get used to writing 2020 on everything that we date.  (that first week or so is a doozy!)   And it is also the time to think about making a word of the year for our weight loss lives AND for our lives in general.

What is a word of the year?  This is one word that will be an action that we can use to live our lives.  A mantra or motto if you want to call it that.  It is a word that should be at the base all of your choices and decisions you make.  

I have a YouTube channel that I started this year and I was invited to participate in a collaboration where a handful of us create a video on the same subject.  I was asked by "Trials of a Long Haired Girl" .....who ironically enough, I have followed her blog for a while also.  You can check out her blog here.   I was so excited to participate in this collab.  You see, I have done this during previous years.  But it was always as an afterthought.....usually in January when the year had already started!  It was usually done in a spur of the moment decision with little or not thought into my actual word.   Of course with that lack of thought you can guess what happened to the word of the year.....it was long forgotten as soon as I hit the publish button on the post!

This was different.  I was going to have to get in front of a camera and talk about my word!   I was going to then come here and write about it.  I was going to have to really think about this word!   And I did think and ponder my word choice!   I came up with the perfect word too!   I came up with the word  Committed!

No....I"m not being committed to a mental institute...although sometimes I may qualify!  hahahah    Committed...this is what I want to be!    I have such amazing ideas, goals and dreams in life.  But they all take work.  They all take a certain high level of commitment in order to be a success!   This is the year that I am going to be committed!  

Some of the areas that I am especially committed to?

*  Of course my weight loss!  I am committed to getting this weight off this year!

*  My fitness.  I am committed to becoming a kick butt mountain biker!

* This blog. I am committed to posting regularly....to continue to chronicle my life on this format.  I am almost to 14 years of posting....and that is amazing!

* I have a book that is 95% written.  I am committed to finishing it.  I am committed to getting it published. (most likely self published....but that is A-OK with me!)

* I am committed to my youtube channel.

I am committed to making me the best version of me that I can be!

If you want to see my video....here it is!

I encourage everyone to sit back and think about what they want their new year to hold.  And chose an action word that will help you be that person that you want to be at the end of the year!  But for me.....I am going to be committed!