I know it’s late, but in keeping with my commitment to blog every day, I am here.

My daughter and I had a impromptu girls night out.  I took her out to dinner and then surprised her with going to the movies and we saw AVATAR – if you haven’t yet, GO SEE IT.  Worth every penny and then some.

It had a pretty interesting underlying message – about energy and all life being intertwined – or maybe I just thought so because of the whole energy kick I have been on lately.  <giggle>

So how does this relate to hCG?  Well this time, it didn’t!  HA!  Except maybe this, we all need to take a break now and then and just surround ourselves with something other than protocol.

HA!

Most of you know about my ultimate goal for 2010 – that is to be the NEW and IMPROVED OPRAH – had a discussion recently with a business associate about how important it is to have friends that you can count on when you get as big as Oprah, and I don’t mean her WEIGHT, but her enormous popularity and her tremendous impact she has on people .

How do you develop those relationships on your way to the top?  How do you find those that you can trust that will stick with you through the thick and thin of things no matter what?  I am finding out it’s a process.  It’s a weeding process.

Here is something I read earlier today:

When you learn to create your business in the new model, then people thank you for being successful. They thank you for who you are and what you’ve created. (You get to thank them too!)

Gratitude is what it’s all about folks.  Being grateful for the friends you have, and more than that LETTING THEM KNOW that you appreciate them.  Those that fall into that category and turn around and thank you for being successful instead of being jealous of your success?  Those are the ones that you want around.

Gayle is that to Oprah.

Who is YOUR Gayle?  Who is happy for the success you have had with weight loss?  Who is by your side no matter what, no matter what you can give back, who is THRILLED for your accomplishments and THANKS you for being so successful, because when it comes right down to the brass tax?  It’s all about gratitude.

If you cannot accept your friends being successful, then you have really got to look inside yourself and figure out why not.

If you are grateful for your friends successes, then it will come back to you ten fold.

Just try it.

Jealousy is such an ugly thing.

On a sugar kick lately – especially after I attended a meeting last night that discussed the consumption of sugar in America.

You really have to understand that sugar is NOT what it used to be.  In my Mother’s generation, sugar was truly a TREAT – now there is sugar in EVERYTHING.  Would you think of crackers having sugar?  And not just sugar, but some chemically manufactured sweetener called High Fructose Corn Syrup (which is a topic for another day).

Here are some facts worth noting about sugar consumption – this is a breakdown of some research I have done lately:

1. Consumption – Americans consume about 2 – 3 lbs of sugar EACH WEEK – where as at the turn of the last century sugar consumption was about 5 lbs a year.
2. And it’s still rising – Over the last 20 years alone sugar consumption has risen from 20 lbs a year to approximately 135 lbs a year.
3. The case of the hidden sugars – yeah, as noted above sugar is found in things that you just can’t understand why it’s even there, from soup to nuts.  Literally!  Look at the labels, you will find sucrose (table sugar), dextrose (corn sugar) and the worst, high fructose corn syrup.
4. Health Risks/Part 1 – 4 classes of sugars (sucrose, fructose, honey and malts) have been deemed to be dangerous if their consumption is over 15% of the carbohydrate calories ingested (long term) – way to keep this number at bay?  Up your complex carbohydrates – veggies, beans and legumes.
5. Health Risks/Part 2 – Simple sugars have been known to aggravate certain ailments – asthma, mood disorders, mental illness, nervous disorders, diabetes, heart disease, gallstones, hypertension, and arthritis.
6. Cancer Risk – Simple sugars have been noted to cause the body to get into an acidic state, and if your body is not pH balanced, cancer thrives.  Lowering your simple sugars will help alkaline your body!
7. Spikes Insulin – More and more is being learned about this process – including how encouraging insulin spikes will promote weight gain which leads to cardiovascular issues.
8. Nutritional? – Not so much.  Simple sugars have no nutritional value and has a debilitating effect on our endocrine system and is the root cause of 3 degenerative diseases.

Well then, there it is.