The Monthly Minutes (with Illustrations)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today is also my 37th birthday...

I've been going over our posts lately and I have been seeing a lot of progress. Congratulations everyone! I thought I would do a recap of the last month to keep us all up to date. So far...

It seems we're all on the same page; embracing our faults and recognizing our strengths and ignoring those goofy sales pitches that promise the moon and never deliver what they promise.

There's also a lot of effort being placed on exercising, which we all know is the best way to speed up our metabolism and of course, get in shape.

Reading labels and keeping track of our caloric intake is important, as well as

practicing portion control.

We really shouldn't weigh ourselves more than once a week. Just enough to keep us on track but not enough too freak us out or throw us off course...

Unless we go totally overboard like I did today. Usually, I bake a German chocolate cake with coconut frosting for my birthday. This year, rather than make some phony, gross diet treat which would just make me depressed and backfire by sending me to eat an entire bag of Ruffles or something, I decided to buy myself one treat that I could enjoy and then not have to worry about leftovers taunting me from the cabinets. I chose the It's It ice cream sandwich. It's this fabulous concoction of vanilla ice cream, sandwiched between 2 oatmeal cookies and then dipped in chocolate. It's Heaven. It's also

21 goddamn points!!!

Unfortunately, I didn't think of this before I scarfed it down at 11:30 this morning. Oh well, I only have one birthday a year, right????

Now what do I do with the other 2 taunting me from the fridge...