Today is a gorgeous day! Cool enough to have windows open wide, and still drink a hot cuppa joe. On the 10th of July, this is sweet.
The scale is... Read more
Well, what a weekend this has been.
Thursday night while The Sweetie was driving home, the car protested in a big way, requiring a zillion phone... Read more
Long before Nike adopted these three words as their corporate slogan/advertising campaign, they appeared in a chapter of a book published in 1986 that... Read more
Okay, for the past month, I've been swirling around the same 3-4 lb vortex..... losing it, regaining it, losing it, regaining it. I've kept my eating... Read more
So here we go, a four day weekend. Four days of my usual schedule interrupted. ;-D But I do love having The Sweetie here!
Yesterday was a pretty... Read more
Gullo's second chapter of The Thin Commandments Diet book opens with the bold statement that "There are no good or bad foods. There are only good or... Read more
Ch. 1, Part 3--powerful self talk
Gullo ends the first chapter of his book by detailing how to make your own weight loss "power tape/CD". While I ma... Read more
Well, if appetite control were the ONLY issue involved in losing weight, these GG Bran Crispbreads would be the golden key! They certainly do keep the... Read more
If you want to read my review and thoughts (and description) of Gullo's phase A of the actual diet in his book, be sure and go to my blog.
havin... Read more
This is the week I designated as the week to follow the Spark menu plan.
On today's menu provided by Spark, my lunch is listed as a hamburger, mi... Read more
What better way to start a Monday than with a little humor....
I do my grocery shopping via Peapod, and have them deliver it. This is for a few r... Read more
I don't consider this to be a stall, especially when I've only been the same weight for 5 days. I feel like I have been maintaining the huge whoosh I... Read more
The scale is the same. Not a bad thing, especially after how much weight I dropped in a matter of one week. My body needs the rest.
I'm not feeli... Read more
Imagine my delight this morning when the scale reconfirmed that yesterday's whoosh was real! woo hoo!! Of course that won't happen every day, nor woul... Read more
I wanted to do a quick recap of the past 60 days.
I began my weight loss blog, and came back to Spark with serious intention, on April 22, 2011.... Read more
I NEED to be getting me something to eat, but I'm too excited about this and must post first!
I stepped on the scale this morning, and IT IS DOWN... Read more
What took me 9 days to re-gain, happily, only took 5 days to drop! Yay!!
This post is about my successful day yesterday!
Yesterday's food:
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I did not get a chance to weigh yesterday or today before having to rush downstairs with a sick puppy, and I can't do the stairs again just to go weig... Read more
I don't even know yet what the scale will say this morning, because I'm so excited that I am beginning typing out this post on Thursday night..... why... Read more
Well, I wasn't at all happy with the 6 lb re-gain over the staycation, but at least half of those 6 lbs were obviously water weight, because I quickly... Read more
Well, the staycation really messed up any attempts at dieting. 6 pounds that were SO hard to take off came back to visit. Which does not make me happy... Read more
So, The Sweetie has taken the week off work, as a staycation. The weekend was spent mattress shopping, and the past three days have required loads of... Read more
I have a pair of summer weight jeans that have been my faves for years. They are supposed to be capri length, but on my short body, they are nearly an... Read more
Well, I am enjoying this "break" of having an easy dieting technique. I'm not sure that I will lose a lot this next week, but I'm okay with that. It's... Read more
I ate a LOT of food yesterday, and I was surprised at the end of the day how the numbers came out! I'm not following my food lists quite as closely as... Read more
I knew once those intestines got the memo to move things along ;-D that the scale would be moving south again! Wahoooo! Down to 284 POINT ZERO! That's... Read more
Well, the scale is UP a whole pound this morning, but I know it has something to do with those beans (aka high protein and fiber starchy carbs) I ate... Read more
It looks like following Big Lunch yesterday resulted in a 0.4lb scale loss between yesterday morning and this morning. That's always nice.
Yester... Read more
I almost began this post with "Good Monday morning!". And then just before typing it, remembered that this is TUESDAY and not Monday. Ah, those 3-day... Read more
Yesterday was successful with my Big Lunch technique. The scale is a bit lower than yesterday, but still not down to my lowest last week; almost, but... Read more
Well, yesterday I went back to my Big Lunch technique, the way I originally was doing it. And you know what? It worked!
I'm still not quite back... Read more
Seems like I blinked and it went from Saturday to Wednesday in a moment! Yikes!
How come when you're losing weight, time moves so s-l-o-w-l-y, bu... Read more
I'm going to blog this here because I want to remember it, and I have a horrible memory. I am hoping that reading it again at some point in the future... Read more
Ever heard of the Japanese banana diet? I think I may have tried it once, and didn't find it helpful. that's because bananas always seem to stall the... Read more
Oh. My. Bob!!!!!
I am beginning to wonder if I broke the scale!! Since Saturday, THE SCALE HAS DROPPED 8.2lbs!!!! THAT'S IN ONLY 5 DAYS, and I've... Read more
I've decided to call this technique just "Big Lunch" and drop the CAD part of it, because I'm not really worried about carbs right now, and CAD calls... Read more
THIS MORNING I AM DOWN ANOTHER 1.8#!!!!! I LIKE this technique!! (Recap: down 2.2# Sunday morning after Day 1 of this technique on Saturday: down anot... Read more
So, 3 weeks of carb shifting was a hassle, my body did not like it, and seemed to do nothing more than shift a few little pounds of water weight aroun... Read more
Well, my apologies for falling down on the job of posting daily. Real life happened and some not so good things, but finally here I am. I'll try to do... Read more
I keep wishing and hoping and praying and whatever else the words to that song are.... 334
Well, I'm feeling a little better today, but I d... Read more
