So I figured I'd update about my own situation too (not that I post here all that much anyways).
My mum died on the evening of 29th August, my lovely beautiful wonderful mummy. She's had terminal cancer for 17 months, stopped treatment on Friday 26th, but things just deteriorated really rapidly on the Sunday and Monday, ambulance and rapid response vehicle came and we went to A&E (couldn't go to hospice because of not being medically stable), and a couple of hours later it was over. It was such a shock, nobody was expecting it for a couple of months yet.
So being 'healthy' has kind of taken a backseat right now, I guess my goals have changed. I'm trying at the moment just to keep us in a regular eating pattern, but I have kickboxing 3x a week and on some nights I'm training from 6:30 - 10pm, so I'm never quite sure what to do with eating afterwards. But at the moment just eating enough is a positive thing.
Our next kickboxing gradings are in October, I'm aiming to get my green belt if I do it. Kickboxing is a good motivation in my life, especially at the moment - it's too easy sometimes to just want to shut down and stop functioning, but training's giving me somewhere to go and just do something for a little while, and our coach has just said to go and sit down there if I want even if I don't want to train. So I am trying to be healthy...mentally as well as physically I guess. Grading will be horrible if I do it - it was a big thing for me that I wanted to do to make my mum proud.
But it's a good thing to aim towards anyway I guess, a reasonably short-term goal and it's a reason to keep training and getting up and doing something. I'm not really practising enough at home at the moment (didn't feel like doing anything at all today, so the only exercise I've done is walk into town, and I don't feel like doing anything tomorrow either). So that's my goal at the moment, although October seems a hell of a long way away at the moment, I can barely look past the next few days at the moment, can't even imagine how I'll feel then. But it's worth aiming towards at least.
I know this isn't really about dieting or 'healthy new you'...but kickboxing is pretty important to me at the moment, and I do need something to keep me trying to be motivated and trying to achieve something.