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As I was writing the title to this blog I thought…Whoa…better go back and add that last part!  You really wanna know what Mr. Jackson and an 8 year old girl have in common?  I’ll tell ya…they are my inspiration this week!  Okay, well maybe not good ol’ MJ…but his song Man in the Mirror?  For sure!  I was watching one of the contestants on Idol the other night and really listened to the lyrics of that song.  I thought…you know what?  He’s right!  If I wanna see results then I need to look at the (wo)man in the mirror and ask her to change her ways!  Here’s the thing buddies, I don’t know what I would do without all of your support but, as much as I would like you to, you can’t come to my house and do it for me.  Yes, I think of you guys when I don’t want to get up out of warm bed and onto the treadmill.  Yes, I think of you guys when I want a cheesesteak instead of a salad.  Yes, I think of you guys when I’m craving a beer and settle for water.  But you aren’t doing this for me!  If I want it then jumpin up anyhow I need to go get it.  I need to have a chat with the woman in the mirror!

As far as the 8 year old girl being my inspiration?  Well, my daughter, Paige, is 8.  And even she doesn’t inspire me in the way you would think she does.  You know that in her 2 1/2 years of schooling she has gotten straight A’s AND has almost perfect attendance (two days off last year)?  Okay, so it’s early, she may not always get the good grades.  She may not always be so smart, but she is proud of her grades.  As she should be.  Sooooo…this morning I decided to give myself a grade on how many stickers I have gotten since the beginning of January for working out.  I got an 85%.  Which translates into a solid B.  I didn’t flunk…but now I’m going to work on bringing that grade up!  I can’t get B’s when she is off getting A’s.  Sorry, just isn’t going to happen. 

 I took my measurements yesterday and have to go into the forum to post them, but if I’m correct I lost 12.75 inches this month.  I only lost 3 pounds total (I think), but 12.75 inches IS something to be proud of! 

One last thing buddies and then I will stop blabbing….please keep Kama in your hearts and prayers this weekend.  It is going to be a difficult weekend for her.

Okay…off to post those measurements!

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Hey buddyslimmers!  Just wanted to send a birthday shoutout to JO!  She celebrated a birthday yesterday and is also going through some personal stuff (read her last blog) so it would be greatly appreciated if you could pop by her profile and give her some love!

 HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY JO!

Morning everyone!  I just had to share with you that I have found out how to burn 7,059 calories in one hour…see, I use livestrong.com to log my food and exercise and I was on today trying to figure something out and I found out that if you get attacked by a shark it burns over 7,000 calories a hour!  LMAO!  Now, my questions are…who figured that out?  Why did they figure it out?  And of course, who would be desperate enough to burn that many calories that they go calling “Here sharky, sharky!” 

As for me, I’m doing pretty good.  I started lifting weights with Tim last week and then got tired of waiting around for him to spot me so I came up with my own routine that doesn’t need a spotter.  I have changed things up a bit and I’m strength training 3 days a week and cardio the other 3.  I’m hoping the new schedule shows on the scale this week.  Speaking of the scale….I’m kinda nervous because I am creeping up on my one month mark to take my measurements.  I have only lost something like 2 1/2 pounds this month and my clothes don’t really seem to be fitting any differently so I just don’t know.  I was telling Nancy a week or so ago that I haven’t let the scale deter me too much because it’s the measurements that count.  What will I do buddies if the measurements don’t make me a happy camper?  I’ll tell ya what I will do….work harder in March!  Yep, that is the only way to get it done in my book.

 The tribe (Kama, Nancy, Nicole, Tracey, Lori, Deb, and I) started a little bit of a competition yesterday.  We have decided we are going to walk from my  house (eastern PA) to Nancy’s house (Western CA).  That is a whole bunch of miles.  2, 739.9 miles to be exact.  It’s probably going to take us a whole lot of time to get there, but it will be a trip worth remembering!  LOL!

Well, I think that about does it for this week…gotta go and catch up with all of you

Have a Wonderful Wednesday!!!!

Happy Tuesday to all out there in Buddyslimland!  I hope this blog finds you all doing well.  I wanted to start off the blog today by apologizing to all my wonderful buddies.  I haven’t been the bestest of buddies over the past few days.  Things just seem to get away from me and I wasn’t on from Friday afternoon until this morning.  Even when I was on, I did not do a very good job of getting to blogs like I should.  My promise to you is that I’m going to try harder this week!  So as I look at you with my puppy dog eyes and my tail between my legs, I sincerely hope that you will accept my apology.

On another note, it seems that the aliens have returned my hubby.  I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but I started really noticing it on Saturday.  We were on our way out of town to go look at a motorcycle for me and I was second guessing using our income tax return to get a bike.  I mean, there is so many other things out there that we could have used that money for.  As I started voicing my doubts, Tim got kinda upset with me.  He said that after all the crap I have been through with my job and with him, I have never faltered.  I have kept going strong and “dammit Anj, you deserve your own bike!”  Okay then…so that shut me up pretty quick.  Of course, I’m not one to get my hopes up.  Several things were going through my mind…what if I don’t like it?  What if the guy won’t negotiate on the price?  What if it doesn’t fit me?  What if he won’t hold it for two weeks?  UGH!  All of these what ifs!  Drives a girl nuts.  Well, guess what?  I DO like it!  The guy did negotiate!  It fits me like a glove!  And yes buddies, he is going to hold it for us!!!

So here is a pic of my reward for putting up with all kinds of crap and for sticking to my healthy lifestyle for over a year now… 

That’s Tim standing in the background.  :)  I have decided that I may not always like him, but I will always love him!  Oh and he is teaching me how to lift weights!  Woohoo!  I had my first lesson last night and boy is  my upper body sore today.

Have a wonderful Tuesday buddies!

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Sorry to any guys that are going to read this, but I am really hoping that some woman out there can relate to this.  I seriously think my husband was abducted my aliens.  Really.  It just hit me like a ton of bricks this morning that has to be what happened, because men really can’t be this stupid.  Okay, so beside the fact that he bought me FORTY pairs of socks for Christmas and then a week and a half ago compared me to an 18-wheeler he has pulled TWO humdingers that have convinced me he is really an alien in the space of the last 12 hours.

Scenerio one:  Last night I get home from a HORRIBLE day at work.  My brain was so fried I could barely see straight and he wants to know if I want to go looking at motorcycles for me.  No, I don’t.  I just want a quiet house, a warm blanket, and a good book.  So I send him out the door with out me.  I then get a text from him that says “Honey, I bought you something.”  My first thought was “God…what am I going to do with 40 more pairs of socks?”  My second thought was “He better not have gone and bought me a bike.  I swear I will kill him!”  About 20 minues later he comes walking into the house with a grocery bag.  Alright, well at least it isn’t motorcylce keys….biting your nails yet wondering what he bought?  How is this….a half gallon of ice cream!!!!  Now, he knows that I’m PMSing.  He KNOWS that I have been faithfully trying to lose weight for 13 months and he THINKS bringing me home ice cream is a good idea?  YES!!!  He really did think that!  Wait, it gets better.  He got me buttered popcorn flavored ice cream.  Yes, you read it right.  Buttered…. Popcorn ….Flavored…. Ice…Cream.  Now the only saving grace for him at this point is that it sounds so disgusting that I am not even tempted to open up that half gallon.  Nope, not one bit.  I tell him in the most sarcastic nice voice that I can that I appreciate that he thought of me, but I would rather have eaten the 40 pairs of socks that he got me for Christmas.

Scenerio Two:  Okay, so he is still on this bike kick.  Yes, I will be getting a bike.  Yes, I’m excited to ride next to him.  But it is February in Pennsylvania!!!!  We won’t see warm weather for at least another two months.  So he calls me at work today to say that he is at a local motorcycle shop and he found a bike that he thinks will be perfect for me.  They are asking $1995, but he is going to see what he can work out with them.  Since I’m at work, I let it go in one ear and out the other.  Until I get the return call from him that he got them down to $1800 so he went ahead and put the application in for the loan!  You have got to be kidding me!!!  Okay, now he wants to buy me a bike that I haven’t even seen, let alone sat on.  He put in the application for the loan that we can’t afford with him being laid off and he wants to know why I’m not happy?  Hellllllloooooooooo…..did I miss something here?  Needless to say, I am going to track down the aliens and tell them that I want my husband back!  He may be a big dolt, but at least he isn’t this stupid!

 Come on ladies…I need your love here today…please tell me that it has to be the aliens…