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        For the past several years, I have been searching for a way to keep up with the grocery list.. you know, that item that everyone talks about, and usually forgets on the trip to the store....or forgets an item that we need from the store because we forgot to write it on the list...

I've been getting together wtih the girls to exercise.  We've been doing some cardio, some belly dance... fun stuff that is getting us moving.  When you haven't moved in ages, besides to the fridge and back, it creates some hurt in the muscles.  I expected this, but one place I didn't expect was my hip. 

"Back Spasm -

A spasm is a spontaneous, abnormal contraction of a muscle. When it occurs in the back near the spinal cord or the nerve roots, it can be very painful."

(http://www.csmc.edu/5694.html)

   AOP is a group with a common purpose.  We support each other and want to see every one of us succeed.  Everyone.  However, I’m going to take this moment to talk specifically about The Girls Team.

How many times have we heard that?  Before beginning any weight loss and/or fitness regimen, check in with your doc.  Yeah, yeah... OK.  Who does that? 

As with most things in my life, my brain, over packed to the brim with impossibily nerdy things like Star Wars/Trek trivia, a complete working knowledge of WoW (even though I haven't played in a couple of years), and other such things, attaches a Simpsons, Family Guy or Futurama quote to nearly everything I do.  Failing that, I can always fall back on "that's what she said"...and often do.

Yeah, I'm lazy.  Like If lazy were a job, I'd be Donald Trump runnin' the joint.  But with much better hair.  And in lazy lies my problem with losing weight.  They are diametrically opposed.  And that sucks.

“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”

-Robert Sternberg (psychologist and psychometrician, author of the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence)

I recently read a quote that really had me thinking.  "Happy people plan actions, they do not plan results".  I know where I want to be but I have to be realistic about it.  You don't go from the very bottom to the top with one leap.  People say keep your eye on the prize and keep looking to your goal, but when it comes to weight loss and health management sometimes this is insurmountable.  Sometimes it seems too far off.  What I have learned is that for me, I need to take the things I know and use them to make the actions that w

Here it is over halfway through January 2010, and wishing all of you a Happy New Year!