Instant Gratification Marketing campaigns in print ads, radio and TV commercials say that we can have anything we want right now. Instant make me feel good for the moment rewards are ours for the taking! We have become accustom to immediate gratification and even told on a daily basis that we deserve it! If it feels [...]

IF YOU KNEW YOU WOULD SUCCEED, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I saw this saying recently and it keeps randomly popping up in my mind. I wake up some mornings and I think about it. It pops into my head when I am on my morning walk and again when I am in the kitchen cooking. [...]

This has to be one of my favorite cards! I sent this to my Internet friend Janine and she said she enjoyed it as much as I did. Besides making me chuckle it does make me think about all those so called “diet” foods. Sugar free this and fat free that, 100 calorie snack packs, [...]

Last Friday I started a new Friday posting about what is different for me this time around.We sometimes have those ah-ha moments when we are reading a book, a magazine article, a blog, watching a TV program or talking to a friend. It might be something we have previously read or heard but for some reason this [...]

Thank you for all of the lovely comments on my last post about my progress photos! The blogging community is a wonderful support system and I am happy to be a part of it. It was hard to post those before photos but now that it is done I am glad I did it. It [...]