Following a Great idea!

Hello fellow bloggers... One of the blogs I follow regularly has a 6 week weight loss challenge going on. I told my friends about this and we decided to do it as well! (I hope you don't mind us using your great idea ;)

We will get together this weekend to weigh in and select the terms. So far we will put money into a pot and the winner will be the one that loses the most weight!... Our challenge will be a 9 week challenge (we agreed we are all slow at losing weight these days lol).

I'll keep updating our progress. ;) Gotta shed these 20lbs!

Law of Attraction

My pic above has nothing to do with what I'm talking about today LOL but we had guests over this weekend and I had some yummy cupcakes on display so just had to show them off :)

Do you believe in Law of Attraction (LOA)? Has it worked for you?

The movie and book the secret are amazing in explaining the LOA, and I have read lots of other similar books that discuss it. So I strongly believe that it works. Over the weekend I read a fellow bloggers blog about how everyone that prayed for her little girl helped and her little girl is now a healthy little bundle. When I was reading this I thought WOW, there must have been thousands of prayers and attention put to this little girl for her speedy recovery, and it worked!

It just adds to my believe of what you put attention on will come thru, whether its thoughts about yourself, or thoughts on others or anything. I have many of my own personal stories of when this worked for me, and I can even remember putting up a picture when I was in Grade 9 of a car I wanted and I got that same car years later (well my bf/husband at the time bought it) But still I feel that I attracted that. Another story I had was when we bought our first house, my husband and I wrote out exactly what we wanted, a investment property that we can make into apartments, near a local park, near shops, on a specific street and for a certain price we wanted it for... and guess what ALL the things we wrote down we got! (I should have also wrote down, move in ready" lol because the house needed majorrr work, but that's another story.

So now that I'm feeling extra positive today I'm going to take a look at my current goals and really start focusing on them and attracting them into my life!

Do you have any LOA stories?

Turning 30!

Not me tho! ahah. My husband will turn 30 this weekend. Surprisingly he looks very ready for it.
A friend of mine once told me that her 30's were the best time of her life. And that her 20's were fun but was filled of learning who you really are or want to be.
I guess I feel that for myself, here in my late 20's 2 years to 30, I'm always feeling conflicted and either going with the change and at times against it. OI early 20's were much more fun!

Well, for the bday plans, it will be a busy busy weekend! Lots of food and friends and family!

We are trying out a Brazilian Steakhouse in downtown Toronto, YUM pic above will make your mouth water, my favorite part is the grilled pineapple! And for the cakes! We will have 2, one for Sat and one for Sun, i know he is so spoiled.

Happy weekend everyone!

Chicken!

Here in Canada we had a long weekend just this past weekend. It's called Family Day. A group of us went up to a friends cottage. It was a calm weekend (except for the guys, they were far from calm). On Sunday we decided to go tubing, which is sliding down these huge hills in a tube!... Boy was I chicken, a couple years ago I would have found this very fun ahah. I find the older I'm getting the more careful I am, the more hesitant, the more scared, I'm not brave at all! I ended up going down these hills twice, both times screaming for dear life, with eyes closed and heart in my mouth. I can say I do not plan on going back. A couple friends of mine were saying that they did things when they were in their early 20's and would never do those things now at all, 10 years later. So I guess I'm not alone, whew....Oh well I guess some of us change as we grow.

EGO

Last Wednesday the DVD i ordered came in. Ambition to meaning by Wayne Dyer I watched it online a couple weeks ago but so much better to watch on TV. I wrote before about the Ego and the back and forth of don't we need Ego to move forward to achieve isn't that all ego when we want more and more... Wayne Dyer explains it much better in his movie. He explains that Ego is the false self, and your authentic self is beyond ego. Meaning that if you are following what you truly want to follow then you are not following ego. Ok so how to differentiate this? Wayne says that when you are going towards something with "bad feelings" like fear, anger, doubt, envy, then most likely these are EGO driven wants. When you have that happiness inside towards something you want then its not ego, its your authentic self.

To be honest with you at this point today I kind of don't care to start analyzing whether its my ego or not wanting things, (I read numerous book on it and I guess I'm tired of analyzing) i figure I'm just going to be!.. whatever way that is. In most cases we all follow what makes us happy or feel good anyway.

What I do like about this DVD is that it reminds us to be kinder and unselfish, and there's nothing bad about that, we could use kinder people in the world today :) I know many people I think follow their Ego, but if they would stop and be kinder, gentler, non judgmental, unselfish.. then having good qualities overall make up who you are and how you live your life, with or without ego.

These are just my thoughts ;)

Flu is gone!!

Flu is 100% gone :)

I will hand it to lots of rest and eating well, well just eating in general heehee.

My husband and I stayed in the whole weekend resting watching movies, doing the least possible. At the peak of our flu we found ourselves getting depressed almost, I guess it was the tiredness and being sick, but we felt like life wasn't so bright. I call this the "I didn't do my homework feeling" LOL. Not sure if you remember when you were a kid and if you didn't do your homework or did something wrong you hand those anxieties in your tummy. Well that's the "i didn't do my homework" feeling we get sometimes when things look gloom. So on the weekend we found ourselves being extreeemly pessimistic, lots of feelings of not doing our homework talking about how we want or don't want things or how we need or have to do so much. We had to tell ourselves to stop thinking and just sleep instead. Then today we are feeling much much better and our thoughts are back to optimism and things are back to normal and looking brighter. Just shows that when things are out of balance in your body like sickness or fatigue, it really effects your mind and thoughts. If your body feels bad then most likely your mind feels bad too. That's why they say that exercise is great for the mind too, it gives us energy and makes us feel good creating the happy feelings for our minds :)

Now that the flu is gone, I want to get back on the health track this week. I'm following some weightloss blogs getting great ideas. So this week I want to focus on eating healthy and getting back into the grove of exercise :)

The Flu :(

So my husband has been sick with the flu since Monday and I just got it yesterday :(.
Trying to stay rested and drinking lots of fluids and trying to eat nutritious foods. I always feel that food cures everything (could be that I just love to eat LOL) So I made Avocado salads for us and Fruit smoothies with Greens Plus in it. I feel that as we are getting older our flus/colds feel so much worse than they did when we were young. This scares me and makes me feel that we really need to whip back into shape and eat healthy daily to ensure our bodies are strong to fight these nasty flu's. My husband has it pretty bad and has had a fever a couple times through the week and also has swollen glands that has his neck swollen. A remedy his mother gave us is to cut up potatoes and place slices on the area that's swollen and wrap a cloth around his head never heard of this myself but what the heck we'll give it a shot... I hope it works.

Well I'm off to rest, resting is #1 to getting over the flu. Wish me luck ;)

A drink or 2

Sat night was the UFC fight, I'm not into any of that but rather than staying home I went along with my husband and brother inlaws to a bar in our area. After the fight we all came back to our place and had a few drinks. I have 3 brother inlaws there are 4 boys including my husband all ranging in the ages of 20-30, my husband being the oldest.

Seems as though we are all going through that stage of "what is life all about anyway!"? Some more than others. I myself have been self analyzing me since I was 21 (the year my dad passed) So I feel I'm a little ahead of them as far as personal growth goes, altho i still have soo soo much to learn.

So we talked about social conditioning of society, the whole ; go to school, get a job, get married, buy a house, have a family etc etc... I myself had a really hard time working on my own business because I felt my worth was based on what type of "job" I had.

We all know that to be happy we need to follow what we want for ourselves which each of us has different ways of wanting to be, some more materialistic than others, some wanting to give back more to the world, some wanting to travel and some just wanting to get by.

But the main thing was, that yes we know we must follow what we want for "ourselves" but when it's different than what society or parents tell you then we find it extremely hard to break free.

Clear example of my husband and I wanting to move to San Diego, even for just 6 months... but there are sooo many rules, who will take care of our house?do we sell the house and just travel? do we save a certain amount before we go? How will our families react? Is it wrong to stop what we've been building to follow the excitement and adventure of travel?... SEEE the RULES! But we also understand that these are our own family/society rules. Other families/people that are more independent most likely will laugh at these rules. In reality tho, my grandparents immigrated to Canada from Italy and my Husbands parents immigrated to Canada from Honduras... and they had to make it with NO money and with little kids! So where did those rules come from? Is it a Canadian thing? Our own family thing? and why are we finding it so hard to break free of what has been taught to us.

At the end of our conversation we all felt that we need to start breaking free, and I think as soon as the first one does it, then the others will feel it will be OK to follow their dreams regardless of what they are! So who's first!? My husband and I feel that we need to fix this and help our siblings take risk and live life... and thus, my blog is growing towards a dream, so we will see! ;)

Fellow Followers I will be happy to read what you think!

Happy Monday!!!

Tania

Close to a Record

Toronto is close to beating a snow fall record from 1938! Yup, so far we had 137cm of snow this season and the record in 1938 was 207cm. I think we will beat it this year! I remember milder winters years ago but felt last years winter was the worst I ever experienced, especially with our mustang as in the pic above. Suv's are needed in Canada leave your sports cars in the garage (if you have one, we didn't!). Gladly, this year we are equipped with a SUV and have much saver drives this year without the hassle of digging out the car.


Still dreaming of San Diego days... ahhhhh....

Snowy day in TO

Not so bad only 15 cm we'll be getting today ahahah and it's only -2 which is pretty mild for our winter. Its the -20's that makes us shiver in our boots. A couple weeks ago 50 000 people were out of electricity for 24hours in -20 weather, I happened to be one of them. Burrrr was it cold! Some of our neighbors homes had their water pipes burst in their basements, yikes, Canada sounds fun huh! I'm happy that I live in Ontario tho, the other provinces like Alberta are much much colder (sorry Alberta)! Overall Toronto is an amazing city to live in, it's the best city to live in, in Canada! This I know.

Being indoors watching the snow fall is absolutely beautiful, but....... nothing like laying on sandy beach tho. I still pick the beach over the cold snow any day!... and still rather be in San Diego! ;)