Happy Single Awareness Day!!!!! Notes from a newly content girl on this day filled with commercialized love...

Well kids, it's that time of year again. Yeah that one. The second time of the year where you feel inadequate for being single or alone (New Year's being the other one to date). All this love and romance wrapped in bright cellophane and overly sentimental drivel certainly makes you want to purchase one of those pretty pink and red Whitman's samplers and just have at it...... Maybe I'm just bitter because for the first time I'm not 100% single on Valentine's day, but my sweetie is thousands of miles away and I have to live through this day o' love by myself.

Cue violins, weeping and loud blowing of nose here. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! But seriously, I love him every day.......not just today.

Looking on the bright side of my long distance dealio, I can go to the gym tonight! After getting on the scale (which has been steadily inching up this week due to my illness/lack of working out/roomy's hot wing eating boyfriend -- ok, maybe I need to take a page from Mouse's no excuse book!!!!! Phew what a tangent! Stop it with the parentheses! Your poor readers are lost! Stop it! I mean it....ok, back to our regularly scheduled sentence......) this morning, emitting a gasp of shock and horror and a few curse words, the gym would be the most logical place for me to spend this evening. This flu/cold/whatever the heck it is/was (omg, someone please take away all but the most basic punctuation from me!!! This is truly punctuation abuse....) a pain in the bahookie! I'm still not at 100%. I was going to go to the gym last night, but just felt so run down and tired at the end of the day. No excuses today though. I'm going! Even if it is just for 30 minutes of light cardio!

Blogospheric Goodness
There have been a lot of fantastic blog posts in the last two days -- I wish I had more time to read them! Anyhow, these were posts with a lot of soul and man oh man could I relate. Check out this post over at Good With Cheese. How many times have I apologized for my body, for who I am? I think I lost count around age 11. Sometimes it is so easy to slip back into that apology mode too -- just ask my friends and HBB (think that is how I will refer to this wonderful man in my life for now - details will be forthcoming March 21st). I have to constantly remind myself that this is who I am, wobbly bits and all, and that if you love me, you love all of me. I reserve the right to change, of course -- but right now, at this very moment in time, this is it - FGS in all of her glory. No I'm not posting a naked picture peeps so don't freak out just yet! I'm just saying, this is it, this is me. And what better day to say it than on "If-you-don't-have-someone-you-must-not-be-good-enough"Day. As usual, the fabulous Kate Harding has a great post up which you should also read. Amen sistah!

So here's my two cents for the day: get this -- I am good enough. And then some.

No More Apologies
A few comments on my last few posts -- at first I was feeling a tad bit guilty for being so dang serious and reflective. But then, as I was watching the Biggest Loser this week, I sort of realized that this is my blog and it is my way of working out the huge obstacles that have kept me from losing weight in the past. I think, as Jillian on BL pointed out, it truly is as much about your mind as what you eat or how much you exercise. It's about finding those triggers that make you take solace in food, and changing those behaviors. It's about finding some balance, not always relying on food or extrinsic sources to balance you. Food can't make you happy. Not even chocolate souffle...or those yummy spicy twisty fries from Sonic..... Sure they taste good, but at the end of the day, they don't make you happy.

Kids, I've said it before -- it's all about balance and the symbiotic relationship of mind,body and soul. Oh, and not depriving yourself....and loving yourself enough to let people into your life so that they can love you back.

Love is truly a wonderful thing (did I just channel Michael Bolton???).

In other news, I found this blog the other day and just had to share it. Um, yum! Off the Broiler has some killer recipes. Real food peeps. Real food. Check it out!

Okay, that's all the news that's fit to print today. It's a bit vapid and vacuous.....but what the hey!

Keep it realz,
FGS