Our wonderful host Christie, the awesome writer and fellow strong a$$ woman has challenged us to do a photo survey, taking photos of
- Someone or something that inspires us.
- Something that we love to do.
- Something that makes us crazy.
- Something healthy in our lifes.
There are a lot of inspiring people in my life, like Frank, Luis and Lily. The hubs deserves a strong a$$ woman (with a behind hotter than hell) and the kids deserved a healthy and hot momma. 
The other family member, our dog Jersey, deserves a human mommy who’s able to take her out for a 5k run.
How about myself? I have beaten my weaker self up and won the weightloss fight after I gave birth to Luis 2.5 years ago. I can win again. I will win again. I deserve to feel good again. My former self-esteem is my biggest inspiration.
Something I love to do… well, there are tons of things I love to do, like playing with my kids, listening to music, dancing, blogging. The possibilities are killing me.
Although consider myself being a calm and balanced person, there are a few things that make me crazy… like those half-blind grampas, who still got a driver’s licence and a car, not afraid to use both - or any kind of malodor. I eat lots of veggies and fruits in these days. The smell of sauerkraut “afterwards” came to my mind, but since I haven’t had any sauerkraut lately and I’m not sure the Rebel will capture that smell *g* I dumped this thought. Have you ever tried to snap a photo of malodor?
The possibilities for “something healthy” seem to be endless, too, but I guess I found a good example.
Now let’s see:
- Someone or something that inspires me: Speaking of my former self-esteem brings me to one of the alltime-favorites, currently hibernating in my closet: My skin-tight leather jacket which comes with a matching leather trouser. I always felt very comfy wearing that. My inspiration is to fit in there again. Soon.
- Something that I love to do: Focusing on the weightloss project my choice is the wii fit. I start with yoga (favorite position: standing knee, I s*ck big time at the tree position), go on with the strength training (favorite excercise: torso and waist twists), followed by aerobics (favorites: rhythm boxing, hula hoop, step aerobics) and the balance games (favorites: table tilt, zazen, ski jump -Â bummer: snowboard slalom, hitting footballs). Please note that I use the German set-up, therefore I don’t know if I used the correct game names.
- Something that makes me crazy: I don’t have a sweet tooth… unless I’m pms-y, pregnant or on a diet. I could shovel tons of sweets into my mouth right now, followed by chips, fat stuff and sweets again. Since I’m neither pms-y nor pregnant I must be on a diet.
- Something healthy in my life: Fruits. I eat lots of fresh fruits… instead of the mentioned sweets.
So far so good. This week has been mostly sin-free. We’ve been eating out at my favorite Greek restaurant last Sunday, lots of bad meat involved. I tried to balance that day with a fruit day on Monday. Hopefully it work. Let’s go upstairs and meet my worst enemy step on that damn the scale to see.
- 2.5 pounds
Anybody out there who minds to hear me scream “Hooray”? Beware, I will scream anyway:
“HOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAY!”
Before you leave I’d love to hear your answers to the for questions in the comment section.
And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:
Homer: [drunk] Look, the thing about my family is there’s five of us. Marge, Bart, Girl Bart, the one who doesn’t talk, and the fat guy. How I loathe him.
Sanni
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September 26th, 2008 at 5:24 amI found you on the Fat Ticker Friday post on Baby Tea Leaves. Congrats on your loss this week! Love the Homer Simpson moment!
September 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pmJamie’s last blog post..Fat Ticker Friday
Wow! I was SO impressed when I saw your weight loss ticker at the top of the page! I eventually want to lose about 40 more pounds, so it’s inspiring to know that you’ve already done that!
2.5 pounds is awesome!
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September 26th, 2008 at 4:47 pmwowwww!!! that’s awesome!!!
oh how i love the wii fit. love it!! i am obsessed with the slalom and the ski jump but i really love the yoga. oh, well, pretty much everything i love. i even love mastering the dreaded PLANK!! great answers to your photo essay! I love that leather jacket! I’d be doing it just for the jacket!!! hahaha
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September 26th, 2008 at 9:37 pmCongrats to the weight loss. I admire your strength.
I’d love to try out the Wii Fit, never even seen it. Yet. Another Wii’s yes. I think it’s a great tool.
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September 26th, 2008 at 11:32 pmCongratulations on your weight loss! I seriously need something to inspire me to start losing some weight of my own rather than finding all the stuff that everyone else has lost!
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September 27th, 2008 at 2:08 amWOOT WOOT to the weight loss! Hmm, I must get my butt on our Wii Fit - we have one, for work, that we bring home for the kids to play on the weekend sometimes…..
I love how you collage your photos@ - and I love your 4 answers! Hmmmm, a leather pants suit - coolness!
My responses? US Men’s 4×100 Free Relay team in Beijing, bobbin lace, tequila & my homemade soap!
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September 27th, 2008 at 3:49 pmCongrats on the weight loss girl!!! I think I found those 2.5 pounds you lost though.
September 28th, 2008 at 1:03 ami want a wii and wii fit so bad lol
congrats on the weight loss. you’re doing a great job. i’m trying to visit everyone on the hfh linky this week lol :)
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