I have just found out that I received a Sunshine blog award from Jaimie and Brittany. Thank you both so much for this award! I am completely honored and truly you have made my day!

As per the instructions of the award, I am to pass it on to 12 bloggers of who make my day brighter and bring in the inspiration just by reading their blogs!

Here are my list of 12 (in alphabetic-ish order):

1.  1940’s Experiment – The recipes are delicious looking and the ration makes perfect sense of what normal portions should be!

2.  Amy’s Quest to Skinny – I find that I really identify with Amy.  Her weight loss success is such a daily dose of inspiration to me!

3.  Anonymous Fat Girl – Bobbie is a daily dose of inspiration to me.  She has drive and a definite goal.  Her vision and her blog keeps me going.  She is an awesome woman!

4.  CDBG – She’s a cool graphic designer chick and I dig her blog a lot!

5.  Escape from Obesity – I have been following Lyn’s story since the start of my own story (which isn’t very long).  She is a wealth of information and her journey is true-to-form and raw.  I love it!

6.  Fit to the Finish – Diane is another blogger who I feel I can really relate to.  She lost 150 pounds 12 years ago and has maintained it ever since!

7.  Deliciously Healthy – I just love this blog!  I recently found it courtesy of another blog I read.  I am hooked on it!  Brittany is such a sweetheart and her journey is so beautiful and plainly cool.

8.  Operation: Hot Mother – This blog gives a humorous and true look at weight loss.  I just love reading her latest posts!

9.  Project 365 – I am so inspired by Tiffany’s journey!  She is uplifting and positive and awesome!

10.  Shedding the Fat Suit – I love reading Liz’s blog!  She has delicious recipes and a great sense of humor!

11.  Singing for a smaller me – Zan is fabulous!  I really enjoy reading her blog and I enjoy following her journey!  She is so strong and inspirational!

12.  Smaller fun pants – I love this blog!  Can I just say that?!  This was my first ever weight loss blog read and I fell in lurv at first word.  No but really though… small fun pants?  Genius.

Thanks again to Jaimie and Brittany!   Believe me when I say that… I have enjoyed following your journey immensely and am so glad that we’re in this together!

I am so very honored that Bobbie over at Anonymous Fat Girl, has passed this award on to me.  And really, I recommend her blog to anyone who is starting a fitness journey or those already on their way to better shape and good health.  Read it.  It is fantastic.  She is someone who quickly became a favorite blogger of mine.  Her posts are so well-written and inspirational.  She has a series of videos that feature different parts of her journey; from workout tips to reader-questions.  She is a kindred spirit for sure!  She is very cool and very inspiring and just love her!

Okay so here is how this works:  Copy the image above and display it on your blog, list 10 things that make you happy, try to do one of those things today and then pass the award on to 10 bloggers who brighten your day.

10 Things that make me happy:

• Hugs from my kids
• A date night with my husband
• A new piece of design or web-related software (open source rocks)
• Books!  Delving into the world of a good book is sheer happiness!
• Music.   Finding new music and listening to old music is soothing for me.
• Puppies!  Oh my goodness…. give me a cute little furry puppy any day.  I love dogs!
• A gorgeous spring day when the windows are open and there is a great cross-breeze and I can just relax.
• New pajamas.  Fancy-Schmancy PJs make the woman
• A good movie.
• Bike riding.  Nothing better than a good bike ride.

Now, I just want to say, that when I started this blog, I scoured the internet looking for inspirational weight loss blogs.  I wanted to find good blogs.  The kind where the bloggers were fully invested in their weight loss journeys and fitness goals.  Whether their goal was to motivate themselves, or others didn’t matter to me.  I wanted it all.  I was thirsty for inspiration.  To my delight, I found inspiration by the buckets full.  Not only have these blogs been inspirational, they have also quickly become my support community.  We are all rooting for one another.  Words cannot express how that kind of support fuels the fire to my own journey!

The ten blogs I mention are ones that I visit *every. single. day.*  (in no particular order)

1.  1940’s Experiment ~ Carolyn’s story is so inspirational!  It is a delight to see her successes!

2.  Amy’s Quest to Skinny ~  Amy is a fitness guru.  For real.

3.  Endurance isn’t only physical ~ Tricia talks about fitness and life in a way that just makes sense.

4.  Escape from Obesity ~ 60 pounds gone and on the road to good health!  She is inspiring and very real.

5.  Fit to the Finish ~  I can relate to Diane.  She posts memories about what it was like being 309 pounds. I find that my struggles were and are very similar to hers.  I really love reading her blog daily.  She inspires me because she is living proof that you can lose weight and get your body back even if you are over 300 pounds.

6.  Julie Lost and Found ~ Julie is full of determination, light and energy!

7.  Primal Stride ~ Seth Simonds is a master motivator!  He posts about his own journey, video blogs and issues challenges to his readers!

8.  Shedding the Fat Suit ~ Liz describes herself as a serial dieter.  Her blog is fantastic and she is definitely inspirational!

9.  Smaller Fun Pants ~  This was one of my very first favorite health and fitness blogs.  She is fantastic!

10.  Anonymous Fat Girl ~  Last but certainly not least, I would like to give this to Bobbie.  Her inspirational posts and videos have helped inspire me on days where I felt uninspired!  Thank you for the extra motivation Bobbie and thank you so much for this award!