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Greetings, my lovely and fabulous YTers! It's a new year, which means new resolutions to get fit and lose weight!

We at YT got some good mojo going last year with the Skinny Yorkie Mommies mini-community. I lost about twenty pounds, and then I moved to New York for work, and kind of stopped paying attention. I think I've kept most of the weight off though.

Soooooooooo, my next goal is to lose another twenty pounds. Here's my strategy:

- COOK MORE, and keep learning to cook. I feel like it's important to work on a tangential skill while you lose weight, because unlike so many other things, you can lose ALL your progress on weight loss. You can gain back all the weight, and lose all your fitness. This is very discouraging, so I think it's important to develop another skill that will stay with you no matter what.

- Start posting to Skinny Yorkie Mommies again.

- Look at old pictures of myself. Every so often someone posts a picture on FaceBook from a few years ago, and man, I was SKINNY.

- Read inspirational books (I loved Born Round by the NYTimes food critic - he lost 100 pounds, and he eats for a living!)

- Start taking Tai Chi.

- Take measurements weekly.



Okay, so what about YOU? What's going to make this your skinniest year ever?

I hope some of you will join me again on Skinny Yorkie Mommies (link in my siggy).