Yep, I did it! Yesterday was day 50 of no slips and/or cheats on my eating plan. In that 7 weeks, I even managed to drop 11.2 pounds (another 0.6 this week) which averages out to 1.6 pounds per week. I’ll take it! Even though I’ve come to [...]

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Regardless of our differences, when it comes down to it, deep down inside we’re all the same and language barriers just don’t matter.
Where the Hell is Matt? [2008] from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
If you have a fast connection and prefer to see the HD version, you can find it here.

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What a hellish week I’ve had! Work has been as busy as ever. Two coworkers in my department were in a car accident on Wednesday (they got t-boned in an intersection by a man running a red light doing about 60mph) — thankfully, they’re both OK, but the Range Rover they were in [...]

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I saw this in today’s Hungry Girl newsletter and thought I would pass along the word.
Lean Pockets Recall! – The folks at Nestlé, makers of Lean Pockets, are recalling about 350,000 packages of their Spinach Artichoke Chicken Lean Pockets. These all have a “Best Before” date of Nov. 2009 and package codes beginning with 8144 [...]

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Since I’ve been focusing so much lately on my weight loss & fitness journey, I haven’t provided a stitching update in quite some time. I am still stitching, but obviously not as much since a lot of my free time is now spent either at the gym or in the pool.
I have finished a [...]

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Since my last couple of blog entries have been on the serious side, I thought I would post some lighter fare that I saw on TB’s blog. I’ll post a more personal entry tomorrow with updates on where I am on my journey and what’s going on with me lately.
5 Things in your bag:
I [...]

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How does one miss a person they’ve never met? Even though I never had the honor of meeting Christine in person, I feel a sense of loss today at her passing. Christine was an active and vibrant part of the forums at Beginner Triathlete. Her logs there were titled “Pocket full of [...]

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My very dear friend Nick is once again riding in the Bike MS event in Michigan. This weekend marks his 6th year riding in this event. It’s a pretty grueling 150 mile ride over 2 days. This is just one of many such rides and walks sponsored each year across the [...]

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TB posted this interesting twist on the Five Things meme on his blog in honor of his 1st anniversary of blogging. The rules are to post five things about yourself. The twist is that four of them should be true, but one should be false. I thought it sounded like fun, so [...]

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