Gratitude Monday & the Birthday Week
Monday November 14, 2011
Welcome to Gratitude Monday. Each Monday, stop by & comment on what you are grateful for & how it will impact you to live a healthier life going forward. How it impacts you does not have to be food or exercise related. It can be in any way, shape or form! If you just want to write a grateful comment & nothing else, that is fine too. If your comment is the same as another one, so be it. Everything goes here!
Today I am grateful for making it thru another year! Yes, I have bit*hed & moaned about the age hormones but I am glad that is all it is! Tomorrow I turn over another year! YIKES!
In honor of my bday, my bod has decided to be good to me & that hormone weight that settled on me & I wrote about here has left for the moment. Actually for picture taking day yesterday, it was even lower than what is was before the weight gain so I will take it for now! I know it will visit again because it has come & gone thru these hormone years BUT it was nice enough to leave which makes me feel better about my birthday cookie fun/overindulgence. I OWN IT!!!!
So, with the bod being nice, I decided to take a Fit at 54 picture. Pic coming tomorrow! I know many of you may not believe my story of the weight gain & how my body looked a lot different BUT IT DID just a week or so ago due to the hormone stuff. It is just the way my bod works during age hormone years. My abs looked nothing like that & the below the belly button was not pretty! 
It had remained like that for at least 2-3 months & just decided to go away for my bday. THANK YOU BODY! The face is still growing a rug of hair & making up for the bod being nice. Less pounds & more facial hair!
Also, the pink eye is gone in time for my bday too so I can put on make-up for that Fit at 54 pic!
It rained here Saturday but we got out & I bought FIVE, yes, 5, molasses spice cookies! See the pic at the top of the post - YUMMY!!!! I ate one Saturday, I have 2 in the freezer and one was eaten Sunday. Of course I saved one for tomorrow, the actual birthday! These cookies are smaller than my normal treat cookies so I can eat at least 1.5 of these for one of my normal ones. I did just that!
Also, because of the Saturday rain, I woke up to a beautiful clear day. I went out for my Sunday morn run & saw an amazing sunrise & the beautiful mountains that we often don't see due to poorer air quality in warmer weather.
A great run with a cooperating hormone bod, no pink eye, a cookie in the belly from Saturday & more to come after my run & my #54 blog picture .
HAPPY HAPPY!
Hope you had a wonderful weekend! What is up with you today?
Welcome to Gratitude Monday. Each Monday, stop by & comment on what you are grateful for & how it will impact you to live a healthier life going forward. How it impacts you does not have to be food or exercise related. It can be in any way, shape or form! If you just want to write a grateful comment & nothing else, that is fine too. If your comment is the same as another one, so be it. Everything goes here!
Today I am grateful for making it thru another year! Yes, I have bit*hed & moaned about the age hormones but I am glad that is all it is! Tomorrow I turn over another year! YIKES!
In honor of my bday, my bod has decided to be good to me & that hormone weight that settled on me & I wrote about here has left for the moment. Actually for picture taking day yesterday, it was even lower than what is was before the weight gain so I will take it for now! I know it will visit again because it has come & gone thru these hormone years BUT it was nice enough to leave which makes me feel better about my birthday cookie fun/overindulgence. I OWN IT!!!!
So, with the bod being nice, I decided to take a Fit at 54 picture. Pic coming tomorrow! I know many of you may not believe my story of the weight gain & how my body looked a lot different BUT IT DID just a week or so ago due to the hormone stuff. It is just the way my bod works during age hormone years. My abs looked nothing like that & the below the belly button was not pretty! It had remained like that for at least 2-3 months & just decided to go away for my bday. THANK YOU BODY! The face is still growing a rug of hair & making up for the bod being nice. Less pounds & more facial hair! Also, the pink eye is gone in time for my bday too so I can put on make-up for that Fit at 54 pic!
It rained here Saturday but we got out & I bought FIVE, yes, 5, molasses spice cookies! See the pic at the top of the post - YUMMY!!!! I ate one Saturday, I have 2 in the freezer and one was eaten Sunday. Of course I saved one for tomorrow, the actual birthday! These cookies are smaller than my normal treat cookies so I can eat at least 1.5 of these for one of my normal ones. I did just that!
Also, because of the Saturday rain, I woke up to a beautiful clear day. I went out for my Sunday morn run & saw an amazing sunrise & the beautiful mountains that we often don't see due to poorer air quality in warmer weather.
A great run with a cooperating hormone bod, no pink eye, a cookie in the belly from Saturday & more to come after my run & my #54 blog picture .
HAPPY HAPPY!
Hope you had a wonderful weekend! What is up with you today?
Posted by truth2beingfit at 11/13/2011 9:50 PM 
Categories: cookies, Fun Stuff, Happiness, Gratitude
Tags: gratitude grateful thankful birthdays cookies molasses cookie Happiness
Categories: cookies, Fun Stuff, Happiness, Gratitude
Tags: gratitude grateful thankful birthdays cookies molasses cookie Happiness
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JODY!!!
Really looking forward to seeing the photo, but in the meantime I'm wishing you A FANTASTIC DAY & YEAR!
Today I am so grateful for the encouragement and example of good friends.
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Pippa - thank you!!!! I am reading about you & you are doing fantastic!!!
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YAYAYAYAYAY FOR NO MO PINKEYE!!!
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YIKES, it came back but I know it will go away again!
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Is it just me, or do these birthdays come around way too fast? You look amazing and I am grateful that we are friends in the blogging world!
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Yes, Diane, they come around way too fast!
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I'll make a birthday wish that you keep on inspiring us.
I know, I know, it is you who is supposed to make your birthday wish, but I bet you want the same, right?
Happy birthday Jody! You are AMAZING!
(don't save any cookies for me)
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Ewa, truthfully, what you do inspires me!!!! You are amazing! On the cookies, I am stingy when it comes to my cookies anyway!
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I am so glad another year has past and your body is giving you great blessings! I for one am grateful for my change in attitude in this life. I am grateful to have lost my weight and for the obsession to keep it off. Because without it, I don't think I would have been able to it is the toughest thing I've ever done.
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Sheri - you really have found what works for you & that is just so wonderful!!! AND, you found me my Hoka shoes - thank you!
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Can't wait to see the photo
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Thx Dr. J!!!
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Happy birthday! I can't beleive I have been reading your blog since you were 51..wow time flies. Looking fwd to seeing the new picture. So glad you are HAPPY!
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Sian, has it been that long - holy cow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Happy Happy Happy Birthday! Nothing clever to say this morning, but also looking forward to the new pic. You are such a role model for fitness in one's 50s!
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Crabby - thx but you all are inspirations to me!
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Can't wait to see the new pic - I am sure you look as fit and fabulous as always!
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Lori - with the hormones being nice to me, it came out as I had hoped!
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I'm so glad your pink-eye cleared up! That stuff is annoying!
Happy early birthday!
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Cammy, pink eye came back! :-O I think I might have had it before I even knew & when I used mascara over the weekend, maybe it had been infected before I knew I had it.. Hope it goes away soon!
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