I’ve spent a lifetime in an overweight body. In its time it has collected and carried up to 110 pounds of extra weight. It flaps skin when I make sudden arm movements. It’s fleshy and pouchy and doesn’t look like the other bodies on TV and in magazines. For years I’ve had to cover it … Read more
It’s April and I’m right on schedule with the WW program. That would be a good thing, except I’d predicted that by April laziness would kick in. It has. Nice that I know myself so well, but I’m irked that that slug part of me exists in the first place. For the past few weeks, … Read more
Whoo Hoo! Twenty-one weeks and I’ve now lost ten percent of my original body weight. That’s about 24 pounds. Granted, I lost about 20 of those pounds the first 10 weeks and the rest has been, shall we say, “gradual” (like a really, really long plateau). Still, I feel pretty happy. Today I found I … Read more
My little changes in random order. 1. Use smaller dishes. Food looks like so much more on a turquoise plastic Ikea kids plate. 2. Exercise more regularly. Last year I was hit or miss on the treadmill, now I seem to make it more often that not, usually still five times a week. 3. Eat cheese … Read more
Man, I can’t believe March is almost over. Thanks to a long recovery from surgery, plus a killer cold that’s knocked me flat on my back for the last six days, I feel like I’ve been comatose through the entire month. I went into a foggy haze at the beginning of February and will come … Read more
I’m finally back on my feet again after surgery. So long, gall bladder, I’ll miss you. But only sorta. My husband wanted to see it after it was removed, and in the name of making sure our children aren’t squeamish, took pictures of it and brought home about a dozen of the teeny gallstones that … Read more
I know I shouldn’t have done it, but how can you say no to Dove milk chocolate truffles in a velvet heart-shaped box at 75% off? Since I wanted it more for the packaging than the candy, and since I’d kept sweets in the house for more than a week without overindulging in the past, … Read more
I’m not at a stage for challenges. I’m easily sidetracked by failures, and I’m not ready to risk all the good habit changes I’ve made in the last few months for some goal I might not be ready for that I might not make. Right now I’m clinging to “Slow and steady wins the race.” … Read more
Remember that blog I did a couple of entries ago about the cake? The one where I said I was through plateauing and didn’t find the cake tempting? Well, 20 minutes after that entry it got tempting. Really tempting. Like two slices tempting. Sigh. What is it that makes me feel like like an amazon … Read more
