New year, new start

Forgive me, blogosphere, it's been two months since last my post.
I've been more squashed by the pneumonia than I predicted, and was a little preoccupied by a couple of things in real life - one of those has lead to me reducing my hours at work and taking a leave of absence from post-graduate study in order to concentrate on the future of my profession, but these changes will also give me more room to focus on lifestyle change (as well as almost halving my income, so there'll be considerably less income available for high-calorie treats).
The other things is that, thanks to a couple of confrontations in close succession, I have a degree of space and perspective about my family that I've never had before. I've tried a number of diet, exercise and weightloss programs in the past and despite my conscious commitment, something within me has always balked when I dipped below 100k. And, even though I was aware of what I was doing, when I had a falling out with my family, especially my mother, I'd head straight to the Food of Evil.
I don't really know why, but it's different now. I'd been planning on seeing a therapist this year, to work through these issues, but - at least for the time being - I feel a degree of distance and disconnection from family drama that makes than unnecessary.
It's not all good - my exercise tolerance is considerably diminished, and I've lost a lot of ground. It's also shaping up to be an exceptionally hot summer in Melbourne, which is not my favourite thing. But diet is more than 50% of weightloss, and I can make up fitness ground.
I have a few New Year's resolutions:
1. a blog entry (here, on our Bookish blog, or my separate blog) every day
2. a monthly assessment of fitness, weight and dimensions
3. a minimum of 15k weightloss by midyear (I really want more than20k but one can always exceed ones' aim)
4. a month of the Vegan Challenge
And a small list of non-bloggish resolutions about organisation, procrastination, time management, new skills and life enlargement.
Tomorrow's entry will be the first of my monthly assessments, whcih means I have to head off to bed - Happy New Year! - Alex