Day 49

Tomorrow is Weigh In #7 and now is the good time to think about Reward #5. What are you planning for yourself?
Clothes? A digital camera? Tickets to a Broadway show? Mario Batali's new cookbook? What is something you've wanted to buy yourself for some time but never felt like you should splurge on it or that you deserved it? You deserve it. If you've come this far and haven't indulged yourself in a small or big way, then now is your moment. Pickup something for you: a moisturizer, earrings, a new sweeper, whatever gives you that slight lift. You may think it's no big deal to plan a treat and then follow through with it, but it's a tiny symbolic step which will transcend itself into other areas of showing how you care for you. Little things mean the most.

My reward is whiter teeth. Years of drinking coffee, of all strengths and blends have stained havoc on them, and has made me self conscious about my smile. My teeth have bothered me for sometime. But I always thought, "I'm not worth it, that's for celebrities. It will be ungodly expensive. It doesn't really matter." But it does matter. And I have probably eaten in ice cream the cost equivalent of the treatment many times over. So, I picked up the phone, dialed my dentist and was surprised the treatment wasn't nearly as expensive as I thought and she could fit me in right after Weigh In #7. Hello pearly whites.