Morning!  Boy, it’s cold out there!

Maggie has a pink turtleneck on under this jacket. 🙂

Breakfast warmed me right up!

Just your basic yummy, nutty, fruity oatmeal! :)  My oatmeal contained:

• 1/2 cup oatmeal
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 sliced banana
• Toppings: 2 strawberries, mixed nuts, Grape Nuts

Greeeeeeat combo! This will definitely keep me full through lunch.

All About Meghann

This is my appeal for your help.  I have a sneaking suspicion that many of you who read this blog also read Meghann’s, so you may have heard about her Team in Training challenge.   TNT is an amazing organization that raises money for the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  As part of her fundraising, Meghann will be running the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon.

As you may know, Meghann wasn’t always a marathoner.  In January of 2008, she weighed about 30 pounds more than she does now and never, ever ran.  In just 1 year, she’s completely turned her health around and found a new focus in life (her Healthy Tipping Point!!!).  As a food and fitness blogger, Meghann is a true inspiration and deserves to be supported in this effort.

On a more personal level, I can assure you that Meghann is a friend worth making this donation for.  She’s a wonderful person with a great big heart.   Meghann could easily shell out $60 to enter a marathon on her own, but she has chosen to participate in something much greater than herself, at a great personal cost (including advertising revenue from FoodBuzz and her own time).

As our great new President said on Tuesday, "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."

I hope you can find the goodwill spirit inside you to donate a small amount to Meghann’s TNT fund.   This will help our friend Meghann, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and the millions of Americans affected with blood cancer diseases.

Please visit Meghann’s TNT page and make a small donation.   I donated yesterday, and I can assure you the donation process took about 1 minute.  I’m pretty sure most of us would throw away $5 on a Starbucks coffee, so please donate what you can, even if it’s just a little amount! 

Good luck Meghann!  And THANK YOU for reading!