I usually don't make New Year's resolutions, but I think this year, I am going to resolve to go places by myself if I have no one to go with, talk to a gender therapist, actually go to get a physical, and work on bulking up my arms/shoulders.


What about you guys/girls?

I'm leaning towards making quitting smoking a resolution this year. I too usually don't make them either.

My new years resolution is to have better posture!

Quote from: Jennygirl on December 24, 2012, 01:01:04 PM
My new years resolution is to have better posture!

Ah yes, I need to work on that too!

Quit smoking, eat loads more estrogen, go fulltime.

Continue quitting smoking. I'm actually almost up to a week smoke free. If I'm still not smoking by the new year, I'd make one to keep that up throughout the year.

Get more fit. Get less scared.

Quote from: Padma on December 24, 2012, 02:35:09 PM
Get more fit. Get less scared.

I dig it.

Quote from: Karen on December 24, 2012, 01:14:39 PM
Continue quitting smoking. I'm actually almost up to a week smoke free. If I'm still not smoking by the new year, I'd make one to keep that up throughout the year.

Keep it up!  I can't get past the first couple days, I keep on freaking out too hard!

I never make new years resolutions but this year I'm determined to stick to it. I'm going to talk to my parents, talk to doctors and hopefully after I leave college start my transition. This is my hopes anyway, if they fail, I'm going to join the gym and definitely stick to it.
Joey

Quote from: natastic on December 24, 2012, 02:36:46 PM
Keep it up!  I can't get past the first couple days, I keep on freaking out too hard!

I used to have that problem too. The second day was always my downfall. Tip: the more you quit, the easier it gets. Really it's the more you quit consecutively, the easier it gets. Go as long as you can once a week and each week you'll last longer until you just quit. It also helps to make a mental connection about quitting. Each time I did it, I destroyed 2-3 packs that hadn't even been opened yet. Eventually the thought of throwing $20 in the trash everytime I tried to quit kinda got to me. I was at 1.5-2 packs a day and went straight to cold turkey this way.

I never have new year resolutions. If I ever want to change something, I make a new second resolution. 

My spouse and I make 1 New Year resolution together every year, and we help each other to stick to it.  We have declared 2013 to be the Year of Appreciation for us.  We resolve to look attentively together for things to appreciate all year long.  We are excited about the coming year!

I've decided to throw out the role that made me feel all dead inside and be myself with everyone, no matter if I've spoken to them about trans stuff or not. I am very, very, very tired. This Christmas is hard. I'm feeling very empty, and to hell or high water, I am not going to continue suffering when the next Christmas arrives. I feel I am suffocating and I ended up doubting myself and my right to feel the way I feel. This will not continue.

Quote from: Phoeniks on December 24, 2012, 04:19:20 PM
I've decided to throw out the role that made me feel all dead inside and be myself with everyone, no matter if I've spoken to them about trans stuff or not. I am very, very, very tired. This Christmas is hard. I'm feeling very empty, and to hell or high water, I am not going to continue suffering when the next Christmas arrives. I feel I am suffocating and I ended up doubting myself and my right to feel the way I feel. This will not continue.

I'll raise a fist to this.  I'm right there with you.

Quote from: natastic on December 24, 2012, 04:28:00 PM
I'll raise a fist to this.  I'm right there with you.

Thank you. I hate that I have so little courage with my relatives, I just feel weak and a victim and even suicidal, and like I have no other way and nothing better is waiting for me. Nothing like good old self-doubt. I'm so happy I don't live like that full-time anymore.

Quote from: Phoeniks on December 24, 2012, 04:33:52 PM
Thank you. I hate that I have so little courage with my relatives, I just feel weak and a victim and even suicidal, and like I have no other way and nothing better is waiting for me. Nothing like good old self-doubt. I'm so happy I don't live like that full-time anymore.

I am riddled with self-doubt.  It's a really, really, REALLY hard, REALLY ingrained pattern of thoughts and behaviors to change.

I hope the new year brings you more and more relief....I know how it can be so, so hard to be assertive and confident about who you are, especially to those who have known you the longest -- who are we to tell our family that their perceptions of us are fundamentally flawed?

I'll tell you who we are -- we are our g*dd*mn selves, and the more you get honest with people about it the harder it is to cram yourself back into an empty shell.

Finally, I do hope that you don't take a page out of my book when it comes to suicide or self-harm -- one should try the whole "talk about it" thing BEFORE you do anything.  I now enjoy some gnarly scars all up and down my wrists and arms.  Interesting talking point, when new people see them, however.  Oh silver linings.

Happy holidays and such.

I'm already working on one of my resolutions (exercise). The other one is to get on HRT before the year's end. :3

I usually don't make New Year's Resolutions because I never follow them.  However, since I'm supposed to be graduating next year, I feel that I should try to make some.

1. Get my license

2. Get a job

3.  Start the process of getting a dental implant

4. Get a bank account

5. See my top surgery fund increase

6. See my therapist more often

A lot of this still should happen as a result of goal 2.

1. Pass Anesthesia class.

2. Get certified as a veterinary technician.

3. Get into a clinic.

4. Get my ferrets. 

5. Oh and try again to quit smoking.