I say "jump"; You ask "how high?"

I've been researching and reading and getting good tips on healthy cooking, great substitutes for fattier content foods and finding great workouts.

Came across this little gem today:

"I had someone tell me in dead earnest today that Dr. Oz has the best weight loss advice because it really works! [This is what you do:]
-You can eat all the sugar you want as long as you drink grapefruit juice within 30 minutes afterwards because there are some kind of enzymes that eat the sugar.
-You should eat 30g of protein within 30 minutes of getting up.
-You should splurge once a week because it causes your hormones to eat fat."

Who's gonna play guinea pig for me? This I HAVE to see, but there's no way in tarnation I'll be caught dead gaining my weight back and increasing my blood pressure and cholesterol doing it.

What do I have to do? Give you a free scrapbook? Free dinners for a month? Of course I'll have a pitcher full of grapefruit juice for anything sugary served. Free breakfast for a week? I'll sausage you to death, I will!

I can't stop laughing. Dr. Oz IS as crazy as he looks on TV. Where does Oprah find these crazies? Guess it's not too hard when you're kinda a loose bolt yourself. I love Oprah's giveaways, the buck stops there. No offense Miss Oprah, we simply tend to agree to disagree on allot.

Taking applications now.

Well done pig, well done....

Yep, this little piggie is going hardcore. Okay, with the eating habits, yes; The working out, um, 2 workouts per week counts as "starting somewhere", doesn't it? I'm going to go with yes.

So I counted and it's been 9 weeks since I turned 28. What's the progress, you must ask? Going strong!

Scale says: 183.5 (not really what I expected, but my clothes are fitting better, so I'll let it slide)
Motivation: 10 for 10
Happiness: 10 for 10

My mom wins this one. She's always, ALWAYS said, "Life is 2% what happens and 98% how you react to it." And she's right. Not that I ever thought she was wrong. Wanting to publicly honor your mother's sage advice, well that's up at the tippity-top of most mother's dream lists, isn't it? At least, when I have kids, I, sure as the sun comes up each morning, want my kid's to idolize and commit to memory every little sage piece of advice I've got to give! Mom, here's to you!

One could speculate, 28 years to figure out Mom is always right seems a bit retarded in the "catching-on" department. I'll save you the speculation. It is. And she's always been right, she'll always be right and I'm paying homage. I should probably whip her up a batch of thank you cards right now and write my many thanks on a post it note inside one of those dolled up thank you cards. I really should, especially since I'm working on Jackie's batch of happy birthday cards. Okay, I've convinced myself, I'll do it.

And we're back. You know, to the attitude part of life. I have attitude, a certainty anyone who knows me would be hard-pressed to deny, even while undergoing waterboarding torture techniques. Yeah, it's that good bad unbelievable.

Attitude makes or breaks you. Attitude shows you who you can be and who you never thought you would be. Attitude is patience, attitude is anger. Attitude is a tremendous help mate, a sore loser. Attitude is everything and can make you nothing. How can it be?

Attitude is you. If you are angry, impatient and a sore loser, your attitude follows. How fantastic is it we all get to be leaders in our own lives, our attitudes quickly following wherever we roam?

Surely, we've all learned the hard way at one point or another in our journey of mortal life. With the weight issue, if I've got a horrible attitude, well, I DO look fat and ugly. If I keep my attitude happy and optimistic, well who cares that I'm carrying 70 extra pounds around? It has really helped me to be happy and on the days I don't feel like I'm happy, I fake it anyway and Mom was right, you really do end up with a decent day at the end of it all.

Cheers to good attitudes and healthy lifestyle living. I've changed my diet, I'm not on a diet. I've picked up weights and lifted them as I've watched one of my favorite TV shows, instead of grabbing a handful of M&M's and vegging out. Portions are in check and I'm feeling great.

My body thanks you for the support and help! As does my heart, literally and spiritually.

Thanks for helping me keep my attitude in check and my weight loss motivation going. That's about all I've been up to lately, but head over to Pile o craft to check out our Wedding editions. And I'll have cards posted soon ;) also!