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Tonya is a sporadic blogger, fan of all things bacon, pop culture geek and all-around Jane of Many Trades from Nashville, Tennessee. 

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Weekend Links 2/15/13

Have you started your Christmas shopping? I’m almost done. If you find a little extra time this weekend, I’d like to recommend checking out these links that I found this week. 

Adoptive Mom’s ‘Newborn’ Photo Shoot with 13-year-old Son Goes Viral by A. Pawlowski

8 Ways to Be a Happy Author by Rachelle Gardner

Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Iowa Sizzles with Pork-Loving Pride by Barbara Rodriguez

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Life is good, but you can nearly miss it

Life is good, but you can nearly miss it

It’s about time I reprise this blog. For way too long, I have felt as if I didn’t have anything worth writing.  I worried too much about what people would think about my writing, if anyone at all was reading and thinking too much about a blog being like a business.

This blog is not my job. This blog is my creative outlet.

Not long ago, a co-worker said that she was asked to describe her…

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Finding Your People You are not alone in your season of life. Sometimes it may feel as if you are because it seems no one understands you, your situation, your feelings.

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Influenster J'Adore VoxBox

  Last year, I heard about an online review community to provide feedback and opinions for various products and experiences. Since I already do this through other areas of social media, I thought this would be a great place for me to share my thoughts on products that I love and some of those that I don’t love so much.

This community is called Influenster.

Influenster sent me a box full of…

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Under arms should not smell like food

Thank you for not smelling like fruit or vegetables. Under arms should not smell like food. #raiseyourarms

Let’s talk about under arms, or arm pits if you would rather call them that. Yeah, it’s a weird opening, but we all have them, right? Girls take care of them differently than guys, so we’re concerned about different things. For me, I don’t like them to smell like fruit or vegetables.

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Hey, I noticed you've been missing from my dash for a few days - how are you doing? x

Thanks for asking. I'm still struggling with motivation. I'm still around and hoping to get back into things soon. I appreciate you asking :) 

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Weigh In Wednesday, Week 37

Well, I finally made it below the 250 mark, though it seems like I've been hanging in that area for quite some time. I'm getting rather frustrated with the losses under 1 pound, but I'm sure it's because I'm not tracking or exercising like I should. 

I know it's probably unreasonable to think that I could drop an additional 100 pounds by this time next year, but I really want to make it my goal to at least get close. 

Two nights this week I have planned to get up an hour early in the morning so that I could work out, and both of those nights I have had problems getting to sleep. One night it was 2am before I could get to sleep, the other was close to midnight. I'm a girl who needs no less than 7 hours of sleep a night or I'm a total grump. Needless to say, I didn't work out the mornings after. I've also been slacking on my lunch and break time walks each day. Seriously, I gotta get back at it!

Starting Weight: 288.2 (6/16/10) Last Weigh In:  250.2 (2/16/11) Current Weight: 249.8 Lost this week: 0.4 lbs. Total Loss: 38.4 lbs.   

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Just checking in since you haven't updated in awhile. How are you? :)

I've been seriously lacking in the motivation area lately. My birthday was this month, and it always seems to bring out the inner demons of doubt, frustration and self esteem issues. 

I'm ready to get back on board with everything, including eating better and exercising. Thanks for checking in on me :) 

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Weigh In Wednesday, Week 36

I took a pass on last week's Weigh In because my office was having a Food Day for February, and I didn't want to have to wait until 1pm to partake of the festivities. Food Day literally lasts ALL DAY. While it's very bad for anyone and everyone who is trying to watch what they eat, I've learned to embrace it and plan around it. Hopefully next time they won't have it on a Wednesday! 

I'm still SO VERY CLOSE to being under 250 pounds. I've got to admit that I was surprised to have lost any weight these past 2 weeks. I haven't been eating all that great or exercising much lately. I'll post more about that later. 

Starting Weight: 288.2 (6/16/10) Last Weigh In:  251.6 (1/26/11) Current Weight: 250.2

Lost this week: 0.6 lbs. Total Loss: 38.0 lbs.   

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Today

Today is one of those kind of days where I want to eat all kinds of bad things and forget about weight loss. Bread, especially bagels are on the top of this list. 

I definitely need some strength today. 

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Weigh In Wednesday, Week 34

While I can't say that my eating has been on track all week, I did finally get my act together the last few days. I've been keeping busy at night, so I won't snack as much. I've got to make better choices when I eat out. 

I did get on track with working out, and I might just be in a daily morning routine that includes 30 minutes of cardio boxing and 15 minutes of yoga with the Xbox Kinect. I just hope that I can keep it up!

I'm SO CLOSE to being out of the 250's. Here's hoping that next week is MINE :) 

Starting Weight: 288.2 (6/16/10) Last Weigh In:  251.6 (1/26/11) Current Weight: 250.8

Lost this week: 0.8 lbs. Total Loss: 37.4 lbs.   

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30 Day Fitblr Challenge: Day 11 / Tumblr Tuesday

Day Eleven - Promote your favorite fitblr! Why do you like their blog?

I guess it's appropriate that I fell 2 days behind in answering these questions since today is Tumblr Tuesday, and I haven't posted mine yet. 

This week I'd like to recommend CourtneyDoesLife. She is adorably cute, funny, inspiring and dedicated to her weight loss efforts. She keeps on task with her food tracking and exercise. Her energy is addictive! She recently went through plateau phase and finally came out of it just last week. I'm so proud of her for sticking with her plan and not giving up when so many others would. Go say hi to her!

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How did you come up with "frogdiva"? Do you like frogs alot? Haha, sorry to sound dumb - I'm just curious.

Step into the Way Back Machine with me to 1997 when I created my very first web email account. My first email account was assigned to me in 1995 when I entered college. (BTW, I had never been on the internet until I went to college in 1995...as it was still fairly new back then, and home access was on DIAL UP). The school's naming convention involved your real name, and with internet anonymity becoming more popular, I knew I needed to come up with something that wasn't a variation of my name. 

I've collected frogs since some time in high school (not really sure how that got started), so I went with that idea. Froggirl/Frogirl was too confusing with the Double G. I was only 19 at the time, so I didn't really feel quite like a Frogwoman yet. The Diva term was just becoming popular (again), so it seemed to fit. I'm not a singer, except in my own head, so I use it as another way of describing a female. 

/ramble ;) 

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Changing it up

I've missed a couple of days in checking in here. Things have been okay, just busy. I'll get back to my daily questions in a bit. 

I'm afraid I am going to be stuck at 251 pounds again tomorrow. I weigh myself every morning, and while some days that may seem discouraging, it really does keep me on track. It probably shows an unhealthy obsession with scale-only victories, too. I'm accepting that for now. I didn't make the best dining out decisions yet again this weekend. It's like I can be incredibly motivated to stick with my plan from Sunday through Wednesday, then Thursday, Friday and Saturday just go to crap. I have this way of convincing myself that I deserve to eat what I want on those days because I've been good the other days....even though I KNOW that doing so is what is keeping me at 251. I guess I'll end up working all of this into my weekly goal starting tomorrow. 

I've made some changes in my workout routine, including my daily walking during lunch. A co-worker gave me an idea for a new routine that involve walking up a flight of stairs, then down a hallway, then up another flight of stairs and back down the hallway on the next floor up (if that makes sense). I did this Friday and yesterday, and made it to the 12th floor. I MIGHT be able to keep going without feeling like I am dying, but I only have 30 minutes for lunch, and it takes me about 1 minute per floor (plus the 2 minutes each way to get to that building). But, yes....TWELVE FLOORS! 

Speaking of stairs, I have also climbed the stairs to the parking garage twice this past week. I enter at the 2nd floor and park on the 7th floor, so that's 5 flights of stairs up. Stairs have always been a weakness of mine, but I will conquer them! 

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30 Day Fitblr Challenge: Day 10

Day Ten - Do you feel like you have given anything up over the course of this process? If yes, what is it, and how do you feel about making the sacrifice?

In a way, I do feel like I have given up the "freedom" to eat without worrying how much it's going to affect the scale on Wednesday. However, I should have been doing that all along. I do still indulge myself, but I try to do so on a much smaller scale now. There's really nothing that I love that I refuse to eat, because moderation is what it's all about. I do often think twice about what I am going to eat before I eat it now. 

I also feel like I have given up much of my free time to exercise, though most of that free time was spent being lazy, anyway. Since I walk during my breaks and lunch everyday at work, I could have spent that time doing something else. In the mornings or evenings when I work out with the Xbox Kinect, I could be sleeping in, spending time with my boyfriend or watching tv. I try not to dwell on it anymore, however when I was walking an hour in the mornings, it really did get to me to spend THAT MUCH TIME walking. I guess I spread it out a bit more over the course of the day instead of at one time. 

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30 Day Fitblr Challenge: Day 9

Day Nine - What are your co-workers’/friends’/family’s reactions to your weight loss? Positive or negative?

I kind of already addressed this in Day 7 when I answered who all knows about my weight loss journey. Most everyone around me is supportive, some more than others...and most of the others are just indifferent to it. My boyfriend has been very supportive, especially when it comes to exercising. We eat out a lot, and he seems to think that makes him a bad influence on me, but most of the time it's the choice that I make when we eat out that is the bad decision. I can find something healthy(ier) just about anywhere we go...I just don't always do that. 

I get some feedback from co-workers, especially when it comes to new places to walk at work. The company that I work for has a campus the size of a small town, including lots of buildings, so there's all sorts of adventures to be experienced in and around where I work. 

I can't say that I have had any negative reactions. They're mostly positive or indifferent. 

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30 Day Fitblr Challenge: Day 8

Day Eight - Your workout routine.  

Walking is the only "routine" thing I do, as of right now...but I'm working on adding more! During the work week, I walk during my 2-15 minute breaks and my 30 minute lunch (with the exception of the 30 minute lunch on Wednesdays because of my Weight Watcher's meeting). It's roughly 3 miles a day total. Plus, I have to park and walk about half a mile between my car and my office, but I don't count that into my actual "walking routine" for whatever reason....I guess because it's something that I HAVE to do and not something that I CHOOSE to do. My Fitbit keeps up with my daily steps, and when I walk during my breaks and lunch, I can get around 12,000 steps total in one day. 

I am TRYING to work the Xbox Kinect into my routine, but I haven't quite succeeded in making it a routine just yet. I've enjoyed the Cardio, Cardio Boxing and Yoga with the Your Shape Fitness. I can get quite a work out when I do 30-45 minutes of these, and I feel so much better and more energetic when I do. I am so not a morning person, so getting up early is not easy for me. Also, I've found that if I work out too much in the evenings, then I have a hard time sleeping.