Good Morning Everyone!

Just today and tomorrow before weigh-in...unless you have had your weigh-in day earlier. I hope everyone will be pleased with your efforts of the past week. If, you don't lose as much as what you wanted...please don't let it get you down....there is a new week. And remember, this is not just about losing weight, but growing within. So, if you feel that the "within" did better than the "out"....hey, you made progress. The more progress we make "within" then the more successful we'll be getting to the wholeness and healthier..inside and out. So be patient with yourselves if this is still all new to you.

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization." Harriet Beecher Stowe

I had to look up these two words to understand this quote..."insipid" means..... without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities
"canonization" means..regard as being above reproach or of great significance.

"In real life, serenity depends on coping and coping well. Rising to the occasion."

"Real life is the collison---day in, day out

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of the improbable with the impossible. Longfellow believed that situations that call forth our coping abilities are "celestial benedictions" in dark disguises, sent not to try our souls, but to enlarge them. Just as dough rises in a bowl, expanding before it becomes bread, we become larger than we ever thought possible when we rise to occasions, performing miracles with good humor and grace. Coping well enables you to see beyond the circumference of circumstance, so that the Real in the center of your daily round is not hidden by happenstance."

"Most women are geniuses at rising to the occasion. But we've never realized how extraordinary this talent really is, because it's second nature by now. We've never given credit where credit is due, because we've never given coping much thought. But if women who cope well ran everything, Nirvana wouldn't only be the name of a grunge band."

"We become more adept at rising to the occasion each time we see ourselves doing it. Every time we cope well with whatever real life throws our way, it's another deposit of confidence, creativity, and courage in our self-esteem account. So congratulate yourself each night for handling the unexpected with finesse. Well done.

"Today, when you need to rise to the occasion, do it with style. Do it with a knowing smile. Confound them.. Astound yourself. Make it look easy, and it will become so."
Sarah Ban Breathnach

"You can do it if you believe you can" Napoleon Hill

I just want to add: to the men on this journey with us women, that everything that is stated here every day goes as well to you. Man or woman.....