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Trying to find a special gift for a friend

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One of my friends is turning the big four 0 soon and I’m trying to think of what to get her for her special birthday.

She’s not one to even celebrate her birthdays let alone expect extravagant gifts, however I want to get her something nice. Something that she’d use and hopefully enjoy for a long time.

I’ve been looking at some personalized gifts. She’s a photographer so I was thinking that a personalized photo frame or something similar might be nice for her.

Of course I’ll probably get her something else as well – maybe a gift certificate for a spa day or something like that.

What would you get for a good friend who’s turning forty?

Spa, shopping and dinner with the girls tomorrow

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I’m getting together with a few of my girlfriends tomorrow. I’ve been on the phone all evening it seems putting together an interesting weekend.

We’re going to meet downtown for lunch and then we all have appointments for facials at a spa. Sounds good? Uh huh. Then if we aren’t too relaxed after our time in the spa we’re going to go down to the fashion district and shop till we drop!

I just have to try to keep one of my friends out of office furniture supplies stores! LOL She just got a new job managing an office -actually setting up the business – so I’m sure she’ll have work on her mind since she’s responsible for buying all the furniture and supplies they need to set up shop.

Once we’ve finished shopping we have reservations at a fantastic french restaurant. I haven’t been there for a long time so I’m really looking forward to dinner. Then we’ll see how the rest of the evening goes.

I have a feeling I’ll be sleeping in on Sunday!

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?

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?

Weight loss plateau

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One of my friends desperately wants to lose some weight. She’s been trying since the beginning of the year and she’s made some good progress through diet and exercise but I think she’s hit a plateau.

I just got off the phone with her and she sounds so depressed. She shouldn’t be … she’s lost about 20 pounds and she looks great! Now she’s searching the internet for other diet or quick weight loss ideas. One of the things she told me she read was a 7-dfbx review as well as some other diet reviews like the supposed Jennifer Aniston diet of eating 14 baby food jars and one regular meal a day (which she denies).

I’m actually a little worried about my friend. She’s been doing really well and now that the weight has stopped coming off she’s getting depressed and perhaps desperate. I told her to just keep working at it and that last bit of stubborn weight will start to come off.

What do you think?

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