Okay, the consensus was that we wouldn't have closure to 2005 without this “leftovers” edition. There are still leftover gifts, food, ‘feelings’ and pounds haunting us.
Couldn’t bring ourselves to bang the pots and pans (yuh know you’re a RustyChick if you know what that means!) while prancing about hooting and hollering out Happy New Years salutations. Sorry. Seems we’re still on the tails of recovering the Stress of Christmas Past, hence this pre-Happy New Years edition. So welcome to our pity party! Not to worry though, once we get this off our chests we’ll back on track in a snap, in plenty of time to wish you a Happy (Chinese) New Year!!!
We do promise our next newsletters will bring your ‘happiness’ meter way up as there are many great things to come in 2006! Look forward to cool give-a-ways, contests and some special events. See you soon and keep your chin(s) up.
Shopping after the holidays for clothing can be downright intimidating and bottom-of-the-barrel depressing to say the least. A full-bodied, mirror evaluation of where the turkey and all those other goodies went is not something most of us want to acknowledge, let alone actually see. We know it’s there because we can feel it. The best course of action we can take is to stay totally clear of anything that will reflect this, thus making it more so. Unfortunately, we can’t seem to escape the fact that the body we had before Christmas is no where to be found so we must clothe and hide the new one.
For those of us who received gift money, it’s a sure bet that some will be spent on camouflage, thus forcing us to face that dreaded mirror. Some of us may find ourselves in clothing stores with our sixteen year old daughters whose mission it is to make us “hip” or whatever word it is assigned today. Trust me, I don’t look good in stripes!
This can be a-self-esteem-battering-time so here are a few tips to ponder"
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Fit For Life: Out With The Old In With The New
Welcome to 2006! Made any resolutions lately? How sincere were you on the night that everyone was caught up in the moment and made a promise to make life changes? If you're like us you probably found that nothing has changed--you still have to get up for work and take the garbage out every Friday. Ironic, don’t you think?
Over the holiday season we binged on food and drank till our hearts were content, not considering the effect that it would have on our body. At the time who really cared? It was all about having fun, that’s all we counted on. No wonder our thinner waistline and smaller thighs vanished leaving a more rounded figure instead! Oh for the days of youthful constitutions! (Remember when you could 'pig out' and the worst you got were a few pimples?)
So what now with another 10 pounds we didn't want less need? You bumped up your cholesterol or sugar levels off the chart. Maybe you paid the more serious price of reactivating a bowel disorder. Who are you blaming? There is the expression “wake up and smell the coffee!” Remember, we do have control over what we put in our mouths. Okay, society is somewhat responsible with an entire food industry taunting us over airwaves, on bulletin boards and across our television screens. Whenever you read a bulletin board remember that the first four letters are BULL, and the next time someone asks you to have cake or pie or a couple of homemade cookies along with your beverage of choice stop and smell the calories!
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Resolution Solutions…
I’m fully aware there is an elite group of women out there who anticipate the moment that is “acceptable for Christmas to be over”, resolve to put it behind them and act upon this with sheer vigor. The tree, lights, decorations and goodies…gone in a flash without haste as if they never, ever existed and certainly not to be mentioned again until at least next November. You’re the envy of many.
For some of us though, the transition is much slower as we need some time to digest all that was this Christmas past. Exhaustion hounds us. We just can’t seem to find the time to put away all those decorations and there’s a small mountain of gifts that need a new home as well, with not a clue of where that’ll be. We’re dealing with the fact that many of our standard traditions have been replaced by new ones. Our children now bring along their significant others who bear witness to these traditions and they’re torn between spending time with us, as is usual, and spending it with their friends. It’s difficult to put away the embarrassment of not being able to function past 9 p.m. and falling asleep with company over. Some of us just need a little time to put these things into perspective so we can get on with the new.
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THE STRESS OF CHRISTMAS PAST
A few weeks after Christmas, my jeans were all tight,
Buttons on my tops were busting in spite,
My moods are all shaken
I am STRESSED and confused,
With a poor equilibrium battered and bruised.
There’s been
too many late nights,
Way too much hullabaloo,
A whirlpool of fun,
Atop my pre-holiday flu.
I’ve been weak and lethargic,
Just wanting to rest,
While hints of New Years glitter
Still clings to my chest.
Too much cake and fine pastries,
Cookies and pies,
A few too many cocktails have inflated my thighs,
I drank way too much,
And ate too much too,
So I gulped Pepto-Bismol, popped an aspirin or two
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