What you think, is true.

In the recent Weight Watcher magazine there's a success story about a woman that has lost 159 pounds. Her yoga instructor's mantra is<strong> </strong>"What you think, is true."<br /><br />I love this saying, and I completely agree with it. If we think we're a big, fat slob, a failure at weight loss and that we'll always be fat and even if we lose the weight, we'll probably gain it back, then it's true.<br /><br />I'm a firm believer in the power of positive thinking. By believing in myself I can make things happen, things like losing weight and maintaining the loss.<br /><br />No talk about "it's too hard" or "I'm tired of this." or heaven forbid "I want to quit!". That will get me nowhere except back to weighing in at 240 pounds.<br /><br />I've gained 22 pounds since February 2009 to now (ten months). I was 154.6 for a brief moment on February 17, 2009. Am I sad about screwing up and basically wasting the last year? Hell yes! Am I going to do something about it? Double hell yes!<br /><br /><strong>Weight Watchers</strong><br />There's a 10-week Momentum challenge starting this week at Weight Watchers. I missed my meeting Saturday (I had numerous excuses, all of them bad). I'm going to a lunch meeting this Wednesday. I'll have my official post-holiday weighin and start the challenge.<br /><br />Looking at my last official weighin I was 176.4 on November 19. I think I'm still pretty close to that. That's not really a great thing, but at least I didn't gain anything over the holidays.<br /><br />If you have access to the Weight Watcher website, here's a link to the<a href="http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=65221" target="blank"> New Year, New Resolve Challenge Week 1</a>. It looks interesting and even a little fun.<br /><br /><strong>Book: The end to overeating<br /></strong>I'm still reading it, and I'm in the Rehab section. I'm working on a couple of the behavioral changes. Stay tuned for more on this book. I still think the premise is good and it makes sense. It's the "doing it" part that's difficult (isn't that always the case?).<br /><br /><strong>Exercise of the day<br /></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42_pR-cPYEPfXeGo80dwi0pf6LjRNHlhQcqQKyXV9rVuL2VgvSqzL2SzDOKORB34r_yqT1J7oo1BivA18GTdZUzv4wy4yzg9m5dxgi-zmxo4v_KNmyLcEG_flA2_cAW8w5vvoB4FNQDsY/s1600-h/Smith+machine.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423131097191542770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42_pR-cPYEPfXeGo80dwi0pf6LjRNHlhQcqQKyXV9rVuL2VgvSqzL2SzDOKORB34r_yqT1J7oo1BivA18GTdZUzv4wy4yzg9m5dxgi-zmxo4v_KNmyLcEG_flA2_cAW8w5vvoB4FNQDsY/s400/Smith+machine.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 375px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 314px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br />I hate lunges. Like really, really hate them. They hurt like heck, and I feel like I'm going to fall over when I do them. I'm so worried about making a fool of myself that I mainly focus on my balance, not really working my butt and thigh muscles.<br /><br />Now I use the Smith machine with two 25-pound plates, so I'm lunging with 50 pounds. It's difficult but with the machine I can focus on my form and not worry about falling over.<br /><br />Check out this instructional <a href="http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-do-smith-machine-lunges-6069/view/" target="blank">video</a> for the Smith Machine Lunge. If it comes up with a start button, just click it. Don't worry about the gender/height thing.<br /><br /><strong>Picture of the day</strong><br />My assistant while taking down the tree on Sunday.<br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ohaSJij2tVQ0eHqKhsh4to58Nc9JwmWMRXggSTGyJIYcOKzvbawhJ7op5-GQ5lbpZIsvVJY6yIVy_boNy8Tla8YXwWyg4X39-ZUWfFYmHnoD8Afc0qeBHqe6AXSjU35gvUdSuRYVpxPj/s1600-h/ChristmasTree.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423113443282907970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ohaSJij2tVQ0eHqKhsh4to58Nc9JwmWMRXggSTGyJIYcOKzvbawhJ7op5-GQ5lbpZIsvVJY6yIVy_boNy8Tla8YXwWyg4X39-ZUWfFYmHnoD8Afc0qeBHqe6AXSjU35gvUdSuRYVpxPj/s400/ChristmasTree.JPG" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Current favorite workout song</strong><br />Hot Mess by Cobra Starship </p><p></p><p>Sorry <a href="http://wwbruise.blogspot.com/" target="blank">Amber</a>! I'm sure this will insult your ears. The official video is kind of disgusting, but it's a great workout song.<br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9uC39y-0Gks&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9uC39y-0Gks&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p>

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Mise à jour au 1er janvier 2010 des "Chiffres sociaux utiles"

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Mise à jour au 1er janvier 2010 des "Chiffres sociaux utiles"

Le 1er janvier 2010, le salaire minimum interprofessionnel de croissance (Smic) a été revalorisé de 0,5%. Par ailleurs, le revenu de solidar...

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