This quote was inspired by Anna’s comment on my request for Question of the Week ideas. Anna said…

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As I sit here in my hotel room, in Chicago, at 6AM (don’t ask… I’m 700 miles away from the toddler but somehow I "hear" him - I think he has me trained) and reflect on the weekend so far, I decided to do a little search for a weekend quote.
I wanted to [...]

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This weekends quote comes from a friend I reunited with at a wedding. We were reminiscing, sharing a drink (ok, ok, many drinks) and having SO much fun. A few times our conversation turned a bit deeper, politics, love, you know, classic drunk talk. :~)
At one point he turns to the husband [...]

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I have NO idea what the heck I was searching when I came across this image in google but as soon as I saw it, I stole a copy. Now I feel bad because I can’t give credit. I need to get better at that. Anyway, here’s the image…

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Remember the old quite smoking ads? The ones that said the more times you try to quit, the more likely you are to be successful the next time you try.
Let’s think about that for a minute.

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Last night the toddler, the husband and I went out. We hit our favorite Japanese Steak House, then we walked, shopped and enjoyed the cool evening listening to band outside and eating Cold Stone. It was awesome!
Do I feel guilty?

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"… but I have to work so hard at it."
Someone said that to me today in a discussion about weight loss. I don’t think she reads my blog so she has no idea of my personal weight history but I have to laugh at the statement 1.) because I used to say it, 2.) because [...]

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I needed a laugh this morning and when I came across this quote from Janette Barber it cracked it me up!

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won’t dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, [...]

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This weekend’s quote is from Henry David Thoreau…

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I LOVE this! Not because I was open enough to hear and learn from it but rather because it describes how I did find success. Hind site is always 20/20.
Let me briefly explain.

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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’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…
HUNGER IS NOT AN EMERGENCY!

Just because you weren’t prepared and got stuck at the doctors office does NOT give you permission to go hog wild at dinner. Did you really need that appetizer? You couldn’t wait 10 more minutes for the salad? REALLY?!?! COME ON NOW. You [...]

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This weekend’s quotes is from Theodore Roosevelt.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

This may seem generic at first but I think there is a lot to be learned in it’s simplicity.
How many times have we said things like…

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This weekendss quote comes from a comment left by Annette on my Question of the Week post, Do you Workout on Vacation? I thought it was fabulous analogy!

I am starting to look at exercise like brushing my teeth. I need to do it on all sorts of levels…….energy, heart health, continued weight loss, stress [...]

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People don’t succeed because the give up what they want the most for what they want right now.

My Boot camp instructor says this all the time and I think it’s genius! Now, why I didn’t remember it BEFORE I devoured the extra cheesy fried eggplant parmesan with an extra side of bread for [...]

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My first weekend quote is from Nancy, she left it form me when I needed to follow my own advice.

CHEAT, GAMBLE, LIE & STEAL
CHEAT the scale by eating healthy foods! GAMBLE on eating less and more often! LIE less and move more. STEAL every moment of happiness!

I thought it was very cute.

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