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I have Roz to thank for my laughing fit yesterday.  She wrote a post about it being International Talk Like a Pirate Day and shared a link to come up with your pirate name.  In that instance, I put in “Biz” and my pirate name was: “Fancypants” Liza Cooke.  Nice! 😀 On that same site was: www.gangstaname.com – I decided to see what my gangsta name...

It’s about time that I come clean to all of you.  While you stop by and see what I eat, maybe take away a recipe or two, see how many points I’ve eaten in a day if you are following Weight Watchers. What you don’t know is that I am a bed time snacker.  Not every night, but I always go to bed before Tony. ...

You can check out all our participants here for our fall/winter challenge.  I don’t know about you but I am seeing Halloween candy everywhere!  I don’t normally gravitate to sweets, I am more of a pretzel girl, but after seeing mini snickers and milky ways, my resolve starts to waiver. But I had a good week.  I didn’t work out as much as I wanted,...

Now that the weather is chilly in the morning, I had visions of oatmeal with sauteed apples or bananas.  But then I thought it was too many carbs, and suddenly it was time to leave for work.  I had a coupon and they were on sale, so I picked up some Jimmy Dean breakfast bagels. Now normally I wouldn’t spend $6.99 (regular price) on four...

Update:  I had the wrong link to Skippy’s blog in yesterdays post – here it is!  Go visit her and say hello! I am sure by now most of you have heard about Ashley of Healthy Ashley.  I heard through Erring’s blog about her recent bike accident.  She was riding by herself when she wiped out – her only identification was her cell phone. I’ve had...

I am determined not to have a gain this week – still can’t wrap my brain around a 4.2 gain last week, and while I am looking foward, it still sneaks up on me and I keep trying to bat it away but the +4.2 keeps rattling in my brain.  Hopefully it will shut up soon. 😀 So after I blogged yesterday morning I went...

How many of you watched any 9/11 shows yesterday?  I had seen it before, but watched the 9/11 documentary that two frenchmen made.  They were following a rookie firefighter in Ladder 1 and just happened to be there on that fateful day. It still doesn’t seem real to me that it even happened.  9/11 is one of the reasons I don’t work in downtown Chicago...

First of all, thanks for all the comments yesterday!!  After I posted I kinda stayed off the computer, and by late afternoon it was nice to see so many cheerleaders in my corner – you guys rock!  So despite my 4.2 weight gain last week, I still feel like I had a great week.  I am becoming a better runner, getting my breathing in check...

When I woke up this morning I felt thinner – I know it’s weird, but you know there are some days you feel heavier than others.  I had great expectations today, even with my 2 pound loss last week, I was expecting at least a pound loss. I biked/walked/jogged 31 miles last week, did good on counting points, had some wine, but I used my activity...

I was up at 5:30 yesterday morning.  Yep, a certain Tony someone wanted to hog the bed and I ended up just getting up.  I thought maybe I would try to go back to sleep, but I stayed up and waited until it was light enough to take a walk. It was gorgeous – probably about 50 degrees, sunny.  I ended up walking just over...