The Concept:

As my late twenties creep up on me, I find that my life is not going as well as it could. I have wasted my early twenties being a fat, lazy slob with no money and I don't really want to spend the rest of my life like this. Also, my hair is falling out. Which is a shame because I had really lovely hair.

This is especially frustrating because I know better.

I know that sitting on the sofa eating sunflower seeds and drinking Dr. Pepper is not the way to lose weight.

I know that buying chips for supper at 7-11 is not very cost or waist effective.

I know that I should walk more and use the gym membership that I am paying out the ass for.

I know that I should go to bed at a reasonable hour instead of staying up until 4 AM reading wikipedia articles about Sailor Moon and then lamenting that they do not sell the English dubbed cartoon that I loved as a child for a decent price on Amazon.

I know that I should wake up early, shower, eat breakfast and go to work instead of spending my morning starting blogs.

I know that I should pack a lunch instead of eating chocolate bars at 3 PM.

I know that I should be putting 20% of my income in an RRSP so that I can buy a house in a year or two.

I know that I should do laundry every week and dishes every night so that there isn't a mad scramble to clean things when I want to have people over.

I know I should make more of an effort to cultivate friendships at work and stop being such an awkward bitch.

I know all of these things (and more) about how to have a small waist, a clean house and retire at 50, but I am just too lazy to stick with them. My bad habits are too entrenched.

As such, I have decided that I am going to make 1 or 2 little positive changes every week in the hopes that they will stick better than my plans to make a million changes at once have. I am going to try to develop good habits bit by bit to replace my old crappy habits.

My long term goals:

to weigh 150 lbs

to wear a size 8

to regulate my schedule

to live in a tidy house within 2 years

to have stable finances

Now then, my starting point:

Weight: 198 (ouch!)

Size: 14+ (probably closer to 16)

Schedule: what schedule?

House: 1 bedroom apartment, dirty dishes, dirty laundry, general chaos

Finances: No debt (recent!), but no savings either

Generally, little change day will be Sunday, but I am going to give myself a couple extra days with the first one. So, the first of weekly little changes:

I will go to bed before 12 and get out of bed before 8 every day.

(Hey, I said they were little)