Alas, it’s New Years Eve 2018. People across the world are celebrating a new year even as I type this.

People are planning to start new lifestyles tomorrow. Diets, gym memberships, and promises to do thing differently are vowed. People are setting themselves up for a triumphant entry into the new year.

It will start that way, but for most, it will be business as usual in six weeks or less.

Why? Because big changes are never sustainable.

Several years ago I vowed not to make New Years resolutions.

I haven’t made any since.

It’s another day.

Seven years ago, I was diagnosed with diabetes.

On that diagnosis day, I knew I had to make changes. So I did, slowly but surely.

It has been seven years of living one day at a time.

I’ve gone from guzzling soda to drinking 80-100 oz of water a day, with an occasional unsweetened tea or diet soda thrown in.

I’ve gone from eating a very carb dominant diet to eating smaller portions, adding healthier choices, one by one, and eliminating carbs incrementally, in favor of vegetables and whole food options.

One day at a time, I added exercise. Walking at first, then on to running half marathons.

All of this one day at a time. A lifestyle is lived one day at a time.

It’s just another day – another day to decide how to be the healthiest me.