Not too long ago I stepped on a scale and was not all that happy with the number I spotted. I'd been okay with my weight as long as it didn't exceed a certain arbitrary number, and now I've gotten over that.

Before any of that I'd already started to try to be a little more healthy in an effort to just improve all around wellness.

I cut down my soda intake from 36 in a two week period to 4-6. I've reduced fruit juice and attempted to drink mostly water, some coffee. I eat a sandwich made of mozzarella cheese, olive oil, tomato, lettuce, and onion once a week. I'm trying to eat more fish and less snacks. No food after 10pm more or less.

Work snacks, I'm trying to replace potato chips with hummus chips. Rice cakes for something to eat instead, and are plantain chips healthy?

Sugar free things where I can find them, like pancake syrup and ice cream.

As for exercise, I walk to my car (1 mile) five days a week after work, and ride the exercise bike 2 miles daily. I've ordered a fancy scale to add to our workout area, and so far, that's that.

In terms of mental health, I'm still doing mostly okay. I'm thinking I may go back onto antidepressants and possibly give therapy a try. I never realized how often I'm in a low level stress pattern where my chest feels tight and so on. I don't like driving, for example. I do it to get where I need to go, but I am always nervous when doing it, especially if in a place I don't know. Anyone who's ridden in a car with me knows I don't do so well in unfamiliar places. Incidentally, I bought a GPS to help me in future trips, maybe that'll help some of the where the heck am I issues, but I just don't like driving. Never been a gearhead, or even someone who knows how half of the things in my car work.

So here's 2014, I guess it's just a quest for wellness for now.

Any suggestions?