Happy New Year  2025!

by annemariedemyen, posted in 2025, Health and Fitness, Uncategorized

A new year has arrived and with it a chance to recommit to a life where health of body, mind, and soul is a priority. 👍

This year, February 14th will mark THREE years since I began my journey to health and fitness.  It has been all good, and amazingly,  I am still discovering benefits that I would never have imagined.   This past year, I have remained relatively healthy – no significant flare ups of my asthma, COPD, or bronchiectasis.  I have discovered an impressive amount of strength and stamina in my day to day life and in working with my husband to complete a number of projects around our home.  AND.. Most of all, I have noticed a marked improvement to my emotional health and wellbeing.  A lifetime of struggling with anxiety and grief is melting away to be replaced by feelings of peace, contentment, and well-being.   🤗

This year, I will mark my 70th birthday at the end of July.   I look forward to celebrating this auspicious milestone with hope, enthusiasm, and anticipation for what lies ahead.  I am excited knowing that I can and will keep doing what I am doing to maintain my quality of life throughout my seventies and beyond.  It is so worth the effort!

This year, I intend to  maintain the positive health and fitness habits that I have built over the past three years.   I also intend to create and maintain a NEW HABIT to better manage my daily food intake.  It’s not that I eat poorly.   It’s just that I discovered this year how easily poor eating habits can creep into my life.   I need to pay more attention to  what I am, or am not, feeding my body.   SO …this year  I am going to keep a food diary and  share my daily entries here on Jetpack.    Over the past three years, the best thing I have discovered is that I can build good habits as easily as bad ones so I know that I can do this!

I don’t have a diary entry to post this morning so am sharing a photo of the ham, cheese, mushroom, and onion omelet Dan whipped up to start my year off on a nutritious note. 👍🌹

And with a photo showing where I am now.

And a few photos showing why I seldom share photos of myself….

This one!
And this one…
And obviously this one… 🤦

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉💞🤗

20 thoughts on “Happy New Year  2025!”

  9. That is cool so that you are also starting a good journal. I know it works and even helps to make better choices if I know I have to document what I eat. Let’s do it for sure! Happy New Years, Martha!

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  18. Thank you, Karla. I am so behind in reading, I am surprised anyone remembers me. The past year has been the devil getting used to Dan’s full-time retirement. Have a great day, Karla! 💞🌞

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  19. You inspire me. I’ve let snacking on not the best things gradually creep back into my daily routine since early November. (It is no coincidence that this change in habits happened the week of the US Presidential election.) This is not sustainable, and I refuse to let Trump cause me to gain weight in addition to everything else. I’ll be 72 next week, so maybe I should make it Day 1 of retaking control over my eating habits. I like your practice of writing down everything you eat and drink each day. I’ve done that in the past and I know it works. Reading your blog post from today and this one from January 1 has inspired me!

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  20. Thank you, Janet. It helps me to keep on track any time someone tells me that it has inspired them to start a health and/or fitness program. 💞 I am finding that the food blog helps – especially posting it. There are days when I am seriously tempted to have an unhealthy snack and ‘forget to write it down’ but I can’t do it. I know if I did it once, I would keep doing it and then what would be the point. (But I sure wanted those cupcakes at Freshco this afternoon. 😯 Good luck and whatever day you start will be the perfect Day 1 for you. 💞🌞

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