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Power of One – Week 2 Update

January 12, 2011

It’s Wednesday, so that means it’s time for my Week 2 update for the Power of One challenge over at the Sisterhood. I wasn’t sure what to expect given I had such a large loss for the first week of the challenge (4.4 lbs), but the scale didn’t disappoint this week either. Challenge Starting Weight: [...]

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DirectLife Giveaway Entry

December 6, 2010

This is my entry for Foodie McBody’s giveaway of a DirectLife activity monitor with coaching. Pardon my voice and appearance. I have a horrible cold and stayed home from work today. The combination resulted in a scratchy voice and no makeup. I was already aware of the DirectLife monitor even before this giveaway. I’ve been [...]

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Little Things Make Me Happy

November 12, 2010

I realized yesterday that my priorities in life are clearly changing. In the past, I would dream of things like nice cars, jewelry, exotic vacations, etc. to make me happy. Well, these days it takes a lot less. Yesterday, this is all it took: I *love* KitchenAid appliances. I would love to have one of [...]

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Popchips: Review & Giveaway (it’s big!)

November 8, 2010

Anyone who knows me well knows that I love me some Popchips! I’ve been eating them for a couple of years after hearing Jillian Michaels recommend them on her former radio show here in Los Angeles. I’m so glad I tried them because they ROCK! As you can see from these photos from my Daily [...]

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Giveaway Winner & Silly Hands

November 5, 2010

Congratulations, Kirsten! Random.org has selected you as the lucky winner. I’ll send you an email to get your particulars. Thanks for the great tip, too! For today’s installment of my Project Grateful to Be Me, I decided to focus on my hands. I know it’s something kind of silly, but I really like my hands. [...]

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Thankful Thursday

November 4, 2010

Wow, I can’t believe how quickly this week is flying by! Of course, part of that could be due to the fact that I’ve slept through a good portion of it trying to get over the crud. That having been said, I’m feeling much better today and thankful that tomorrow is Friday. Bring on the [...]

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Shrinkvivor Finale

November 3, 2010

Well, here we are at the grand finale of the Shrinkvivor challenge. The gang over at The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans put on another amazing challenge. While I didn’t make the Top 7, I did manage to survive until the final cut so I’m pretty pleased with that. I lost a total of 11.4 [...]

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Project Grateful Kick-Off

November 1, 2010

Some of you may remember that I made the decision during my recent Exposed post to start what I’m calling Project Grateful To Be Me. Every day between now and Thanksgiving, I will be posting at least one thing each day that I like about myself. My hope is that by doing this, it will [...]

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Bad Habit Tombstones

October 31, 2010

In honor of Halloween, I’ve decided to lay to a rest a couple of bad habits that have been dragging me down in my quest to live a healthy lifestyle. If you’ve been reading my blog lately, these probably won’t surprise you because they are some things I’ve been working on anyway. Today just seems [...]

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Shrinkvivor Weigh In #2

September 22, 2010

Today marks our second weigh in for the new Shrinkvivor Challenge over at the Sisterhood. Since last week’s weigh in was just for establishing our starting weights, this week is our first really weight loss weigh in week. I headed over to my Weight Watchers meeting on Saturday and was thrilled to see a loss [...]

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