One of the perks of losing weight is being able to wear a more interesting collection of clothing. Let's face it- dressing up or down just isn't much fun when your body is covered in excess baggage. Isn't that sort of what obesity is... visible and unhealthy baggage of brokeness.

I'm looking forward to an Atlanta buying trip this spring. I can't wait to give away the rest of my double digit clothing and get back to the single digits- the low single digits! corsets

If a memory foam mattress is anything like a memory foam pillow, I would one day like to get one!

My friend has memory foam pillows at his house and I never would have thought that I would like them. But actually I like them even more than my white goose down overstuffed king size bed pillows.

There is something very nice about them!

It's not like I've been on holiday or anything. Actually I've been consumed with transition for many months. I hope to get more regular with my postings on this blog.

I think I'd like to go in a different direction on this blog for 2008. However, that direction has not presented itself to me yet.

So consequently you hear from me when I 'm working on an assignment. This assignment is for Nike golf.

Now that is an idea I could get into...maybe a golfing weekend in PebbleBeach!

It was Christmas time when the box of two wines arrived. Being in the middle of moving, I immediately moved them to the kitchen in my new residence, anxiously awaiting a special occasion to open the bottles and partake of some fine wine.

So one afternoon as my friends who helped me move and I sat down to a simple lunch, I suggested we try the wine. They were thrilled!

We were about to turn a meal into a celebration, thanks to the gift of wine.

They were very favorable about the wine, but for some reason I just wasn't crazy about it. Perhaps my taste buds were off that day. Perhaps the wine was a bit too dry for my taste preferences. I'm really not sure what it was. Perhaps I was too stressed with my move to enjoy a truly fine wine.

There was a bit left in a bottle and I shared it with a client a couple days ago. She also, like my other friends, gave this wine the thumbs up. I guess I need some instruction on understanding good wines. So it is for that reason that I would like to join a wine of the month club that my teach me how to appreciate a good wine.

Why pay retail prices if you don't have to? The Internet has made it a breeze to find exactly what we are looking for with the added benefit that any savvy shopper can usually find anything they want at a price that they are willing to pay. Standard mark-ups are way, way too high on most products. That is why you need resources like directbuy on your rolodex.

Yikes! I didn't realize so much time had passed since my last blog posting. My days have been consumed with first the sale of my house, then the closing, packing and moving and now getting settled into my new home and business. I wish that I could say that through it all, I was victorious in my weight loss. While I didn't put any weight on through this journey, I also didn't lose very much... at least not as much as I should have lost. Hopefully now that I am beginning to get back on an even keel, I will get refocused on losing the rest of my weight. To date I've lost close to 100 pounds! But lately I'm really struggling with sugar and chocolate cravings. One night I ate an entire pint of chocolate fudge frozen yogurt. I couldn't help myself. I just kept eating until the carton was empty. This is truly a sickness! It is really no different than any type of addiction...alcohol or drugs or nicotine. Fortunately a sugar addiction isn't illegal or cause one to have impaired judgement, but it still is self-destructive and it still sets up an unwelcome outpost in the head that tries to control one's decisions. I'll never really understand what it is that happens in the mind that causes an addictive substance to take over. But I will continue to battle this in the best way that I know how. Maybe the center should install a hidden spy camera in my kitchen, ten everytime I deviate it will catch me in the act!