Independence day!!!!

I love holiday time!!! I love everything about holidays! I love the food, the fun with family and the activities! As my family undergoes a transformation, from sedentary and listless, to active and full of life, we are begining to understand why we became the way we became and what caused us to become so unhealthy. Our Mom has always been the healthy one in the family and try as she could, we would not be broken. In otherwords, we didnt care what she tried to tell us, we were going to eat what we wanted when we wanted it. Then we decided to change, together!
so far this year, my family has lost a combined total of 173 pounds. We are feeling better, looking better, smiling more and making real plans for our future instead of dreaming about our future. Our hearts are beating better, we are giving less of our money to the drug companies and the fast food restaurants, which I am convinced are in cahoots with each other and we are having fun.
Tomorrow is Independence Day here in the US, and even though I have some followers in Germany and India and Eukraine, I thought it would be a neat idea for all of us to declare independence from something unhealthy.
I, for instance am quitting soda, I have been drinking too many diet sodas, so that is what I am quitting. My older sister is declaring independence from the clutter in her house, my Neice is declaring independence from poor sleeping habits and my younger sister wants to declare independence from being single, but that's for another blog...but you get the point.
What kinds of things do you want to declare independence from? Are there alot of things or just a few that you can think of? What is stopping you from quitting these things? What are your reasons for feeling dependent on these things?
My Mom says that if you spend 5 minutes a day cleaning each room of your house you will never have to take a whole day off to clean. Try taking 5 minutes a day and think about the things in your life that you are seriously unhappy with, decide how to rid yourself of the things you deem unhealthy.
Let me know what you want to declare independence from and lets work together to get this done!!! Maybe we can get one step ahead on our journey!!!
Happy Independence Day Everyone!!!!