Fly me into the New Year.

It's starting. 

A new year of goals, inspiration, plans for joy.

It's never easy to make everything go right at the same time, but if some things are working for me, maybe those beyond my control will be more manageable.

This is me in Barcelona 2 years ago. I was heavier, yes, but happier too. At my lowest weight, when I looked lovely but a little scary, and didn't get my period, I was never this happy.

This year I want both fitness and joy, and I want to beat the disorder.

I made new pages for both food and exercise that pretty well outline my 2011 goals, so I would love to have you lovelies check them out and make suggestions.

The important points:

• Continue to be vegan. Return to whole foods and keep trying new recipes.
• No desserts (except on 6 planned holidays throughout the year.)
• Eat about 1600 calories per day to start. Adjust as needed to continue weight loss/speed up loss if I get frustrated, but not to drop below 1200 per day.
• Reach goal weight of 107.8 pounds by April 1, 2011. In time for...
• Running my next half marathon on April 10, 2011. See the training plan in the exercise tab.

• Other goals (not on the other pages) include making it through the rest of the second year of medical school, passing the first part of boards, and starting third year clinical rotations with some strength and confidence, even though I won't know everything.

And of course, I want to keep up with all of you and see you get everything you want this year.

Let's do it!