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Time for our monthly trip to Costco

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Sometime in the next few days we’re going to make a trip to Costco.

It’s time to fill our prescriptions and buy some food items in bulk. LOL

In case you’ve never heard of Costco it’s like Sam’s Club … in fact, I think it might be owned by the same company. I guess it’s the Canadian version of Sam’s club.

The last time we were there (about a month ago) I had misplaced my reward card so I have to remember to bring it with me this time around!

As I said we go about once a month to get our prescriptions filled. They have the lowest “filling” fee of any drug store in the city so we save a lot of money by getting or medications there. Plus we always end up finding some deal or three. Usually we pick up a 24 pack of yogurt oh and we get our milk there when we remember … it’s about $2 cheaper than in the grocery stores.

I think some small corner store owners must shop there regularly. I mean, I see people with carts full of boxed candy bars, and bags and bags of milk. That has to be for a small store doesn’t it? It certainly can’t be for a home unless they have a ton of kids!

Do you ever shop at Costco or a Sam’s club or some similar store in order to get good deals and save money?

She reached her goal!

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A few months ago I wrote a post or two about a friend of mine who was having trouble dieting. She’d been dieting for months in order to get down to a decent weight for her wedding (end of this month), but a few months ago she seemed to hit a plateau and she just couldn’t lose anymore weight.

She was so frustrated. She was calling me up and asking me for ideas and advice and well pretty much driving me absolutely nuts!

Well I’m happy to say that she kept at it and she finally started to lose the weight again and now she’s one of those great weight loss success stories that you might read about in magazines.

She stuck with it and I’m really proud of her.

Now I need to lose a few pounds … maybe she could help me?

Workouts and tempting desserts

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I subscribe to a few magazines – mostly Canadian magazines like Chatelaine and Flare (and hello Canada) and it seems they’re all full of articles about how to get in shape for summer or Bikini ready body workouts and so on.

Of course, in these same magazines, the ones trying to give you ideas like getting rid of belly fat or simple yoga routines that will get you in shape in four weeks, they also have recipes for delicious summer meals and desserts.

It seems like a contradiction doesn’t it. They have drool worth pictures of food and a few pages later they’re showing you how to lose weight. LOL Well I guess it’s nice that they show us how to stay fit if they’re going to tempt us with delicious sounding recipes.

Do you read magazines that tempt and taunt you too?

My frustrating friend

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A few days ago I told you about my friend who’s been trying to lose weight since January. She’s actually done quite well by losing about 20 lb but she’s reached a plateau.

I’ve been trying my hardest to encourage her to just stick to her diet and work out but she’s determined to lose the weight faster and now she’s looking into diets for quick weight loss like even liquid diets.

I guess I just need to step back a bit and let her do whatever she’s going to do. I’ve given her advice (advice that she asked for) several times and she’s not taking it … so what can I do?

Do you ever have people that keep asking you for advice and then do almost the opposite. It’s frustrating isn’t it?

Workout at work

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Wow my husband just found out that our workplace (a hospital) put in a new gym for the employees and if he wants to use it he can sign up to have just $3.00 taken off his pay each month.

That’s not bad for full 24 hour a day use of a fully equipped fitness facility. Pretty cool. I’m on medical leave and don’t get a paycheck so I don’t know if I can sign up to use it or not, but I guess I could go as a guest.

We only live about two blocks from the hospital so we could easily get there any time if we wanted to work out. I’m sure we’d bump into a few employees who are in to using testosterone boosters and body building, but that’s ok .. we know pretty much everyone who works at the hospital so it would be a very comfortable environment.

Chris, my husband, could also work out before or after work if he wanted too. Hmmm … it would be nice to see him in better shape. He’s not in terrible shape or overweight, but when we first met he used to bike everywhere and wow he had some nice muscles.

Does your workplace have a fitness area that you can use?

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