I went to post, realizing I totally forgot an intro! Oh well, I’m jumping right in…

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These are slowly becoming my favorite posts. I like that I can rapid fire things things off to you as I have SO much I want to share! If I had full blog posts about each of these things I’d have to lock myself in a room for 12 hours just to write plus I [...]

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It’s only my second week of Thursday Thoughts and I’m already late! I meant to get this post done this morning but my day’s been crazy!
Let’s get to it…

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I’m tired. I mean, really, tired. I haven’t gotten more then 6 hours of sleep a night in months, maybe years. I’m sure other moms can relate. We are just so gosh darn busy, keeping house, working, quality family time, time for ourselves, errands, shopping, I mean really, my days are so scheduled anymore [...]

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When this song came out in 1998 I was in college. After 4 years of undergraduate studies I was the heaviest I’ve been and really hating the body I was in. The body I put myself in.

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I should be sleeping but I find myself with a food journal and the need to share a few links before bed.

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I need sleep but I wanted to post my travel food journal and let you know I’m having a blast in Toronto! I have a full day in the office tomorrow and then I’m off to Boot Camp! YAY!
A few notes…

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I think I mentioned this last week, but I’ll say it again, my new favorite gym workout is BOOTCAMP! Seriously, it’s fun. We do a variety of activities, it’s different every class and the girls there are so nice.
So far out of of all the things we’ve done (I’ve only been to three [...]

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My Mom sent me this article about sugar and I needed to share.
I always try to avoid white sugar and I recently reduced my intake of “fake” sugar as well. Awhile back I posed the sweetener question on GreenLiteBites and got some interesting answers that I think I’ll ask it again…

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Tonight (after mustering enough energy to get out of the door) I hit a cardio kickboxing class.  The instructor always ends with 15 minutes of ab work and tonight she did such a simple effective routine I have to share. I still feel like I have a rock in the pit [...]

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One of my favorite (non-weight loss) blogs, Problogger announced an unofficial Blogger Appreciate day! What a fabulous idea!
To quote Darren

We’re in it together, blogging is about collaboration and together going further than we can by ourselves - so why not help another blogger today by shooting them a word of encouragement, a pep [...]

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I thought you should know!

The Southwest Salad
I had 2 already and I can NOT believe I’m advertising for McD’s but hey, it’s good and when you are married to a fast food junky, it’s great to have options.
The Salad with grilled chicken is 6 points (6.4 to be exact)(and that’s with tortilla strips!) and [...]

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Well, for me and this post it did anyway.  Let me explain.
I don’t have much time tonight, it’s my long day at work. So I was just going to post my food journal and head to bed. Well, after analyzing my journal I realized it was a perfect example of what I [...]

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Did anyone see the new show “I Can Make You Thin”? on TLC?  I didn’t watch it but I saw the preview and read this article.
A good friend of mine (who also lost a significant amount of weight) caught it last night and said the host, Paul McKenna actually had [...]

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I’m feeling SO better! Not 100% but a lot better. Tomorrow I WILL be going to the gym and getting back into my groove. It will be my first workout WITH the trainer! I can’t wait. 
Anyway I thought it would be fun to do a bit of a link fest today. [...]

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