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I love that saying – Believe In Yourself.  I sign off all my posts with it because I believe all of us need to hear it – I know I do.  I even have a bracelet and a ring that is engraved with “Believe In Yourself” that is my favorite.  To me, it is more [...]

I am a member of an expert panel for weight loss surgery online questions.  I share the following with you as I believe it is something many of us struggle with at one time or another.  Whether we’ve had weight loss surgery or have lost weight without surgery, the concerns expressed here are shared by [...]

While standing in line at a grocery store, all of the losing weight and diet articles on every single magazine stood out and made me smile.  How many years I have spent (wasted?) trying to lose weight and keeping it off.  There was a time that I would have purchased most of those magazines in [...]

Forgiving is not forgetting; it is actually remembering — remembering and not using your right to hit back.  It’s a second chance for a new beginning.  And the remembering part is particularly important.  Especially if you don’t want to repeat what happened.  ~Desmond Tutu I struggle with forgiving and forgetting.  I have a couple of [...]

For Christmas, I received a Wii Fit.  My husband stood out in subdegree temperatures at 6:00 a.m. in the morning on a Sunday morning to get us one of the very limited quantity a popular store was putting out.  Awh..!  It is so much fun.  This special gift combines a few of the things that [...]

As I coach more clients and talk with more weight loss surgery patients, getting and staying back on track is more of a common concern we share.  It is a struggle that I also share myself.  All of us have our thing we are aware of and staying on track is mine. I’ve devoted a [...]

I love to walk.  Even when I weighed 147 pounds more, walking was my exercise of choice.  It still is.  I prefer to walk outdoors but hot and humid weather along with ice storms and subdegree wind chills put me inside.  I have dvds of walking workouts, a treadmill of my own and a gym [...]

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you.  What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.  ~Mary Pickford I saw this quote and felt compelled to write about it.  We’re just over the one month mark from New Year’s.  How are the goals [...]

I’ve noticed that when you ask someone how they are doing that a common response is “busy.”  It seems that all of us have overburdened calendars and to do lists along with the day-to-day occurrences to manage too. Millions of us use organizers, personal digital assistants, calendars, sticky notes, and date books to help us [...]

The language of text messages – the shorthand, shortcuts of texting….bff (best friends forever).  Kids are always using “bff” when texting other friends.  The question is:  Who is your bff? What are the characteristics that your bff has?  My best friend is always there for me with an understanding heart and automatically knows when to [...]