Every year I start it off on completely the wrong foot. I always have grand plans that January 1st will be the day I change my life but if truth be told when I wake up hungover and eating comfort food it never feels like much of a fresh start. Then everything slides…. “i’ll start on the 3rd…. 6th…. next Monday”, then next Monday (rinse and repeat).
Perhaps the key to success isn’t to start on New Years Day, but to start on New Years Eve so that you’re entering the New Year already feeling like the ‘new you’. I don’t know what that entails yet (doing New Year sober?! yikes!) but what I do know is that I AM starting on Monday and I am NEVER going to say that bloody phrase again!
I can’t allow myself to procrastinate my way through another year. I am feeling quite unwell and I need to make big changes to my life. This year has been one of the worst for me (and my family). I have been battling quite a deep depression which has only been confounded by problems we’ve had with our rented house and then a few weeks ago our car breaking down and needing a new engine! It never rains but it pours!!
I don’t feel able to cope very well with all of these extra pressures and I’ve felt quite lost. If I hadn’t had the focus of trying to help and encourage others in the Facebook group I’m not sure I’d really have felt like I had any real sense of purpose. I am very reluctant to go to the GP, I really don’t want medication (been there, done that) so I am going to try and fix myself! I know that might sound ambitious but I have been doing extensive research on fasting and dietary interventions for depression so I am hoping that the new plan will work and that not only will it help me to find myself again physically, but mentally as well.
I’m going to try and post full details of the new plan by New Years Day. Until then, take care everyone and have a very happy New Year 
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