Made it through another week of ups and downs - trying to keep them at least balanced is the biggest challenge - I refuse to slide backwards eve... Read more
The strangest thing happened to me tonight. I was walking a lady friend back to the metro station after we went out for dinner. Whilst walking on the... Read more
life is so crazy right now that I haven't been able to keep on track, instead just maintaining which doesn't make me feel very good. I got a gym membe... Read more
So I am making more revelations about my body.
I know people say NO white potatoes, white bread and white rice. I may have underestimated how tr... Read more
I finally think that I have an answer to what has been going on with my gut and how it seems to have been hating me for years and years and years, SIB... Read more
Today is a great day for me, first of all because is Friday (May 24, 2013) and second of all because is going to be a long weekend, in which I will e... Read more
Would we take our lives seriously without the impending end of our lives? Would we achieve much of anything without a deadline? If you had it all to d... Read more
So, I've been gone for a while (and of course have gained back all the weight that I had lost). This is my MO though, this is what I do. I have a litt... Read more
Well, here I am posting almost 3 months after my last post. And I just want to say I've lost 34lbs! I dunno how the heck I did it, but I did it.
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I had a few rough days, then took a few days to recover. I spent the weekend exhausted and oversleeping. I made sure to increase my calories to the po... Read more
Okay, I have reverted to being just like a child that just got their first bike! I bought the FitBit Zip model, and I love it! It's the size of abou... Read more
I am a huge geek, I love science fiction, computers, movies, books, and spreadsheets. I really really love playing with spreadsheets, maps and relate... Read more
THE FIRST START OF ANYTHING IS ALWAYS TOUGH. THE FIRST WEEK AND SECOND WEEK I HAVE BEEN FOCUSING ON CUTTING SUGAR AND MOST WHEAT. I AM IN THE PROCESS... Read more
I have made it through this week doing fairly well with watching what I eat. Tonight we are going out to dinner and I have already looked at the nutri... Read more
Feeling good today! Incredibly sore, still. The cardio that I tried out yesterday was a new one - again, I was blown away by how difficult it was... Read more
I had someone make a rude comment about me yesterday. It made me feel terrible and I wanted to defend myself because it was totally inaccurate but I... Read more
So weekends are always my downfall, I am home and can eat whatever I want whenever I want, and it always ends up being junk!!
Tonight me and my k... Read more
As I increase my running mileage each week, I am learning new and different (some crazy different) things about my body.
Toenails are indeed for... Read more
I read on another Spark member blog that there are 220 days left in the year. When I counted them up on the calendar, I actually counted 221, so I ma... Read more
In a move to get myself back on track, this week I bought some tools of motivation. I went to Verizon and picked up a FitBit One and Barnes and Noble... Read more
I'm so sore!! This work-out made me sweat all over! Still feel most of the soreness in my upper-body however my legs are tired, maybe because at work... Read more
Got my running in this morning, all 14 minutes, yay! Definitely hard, but hey, is it ever easy? So many people run by my house (we live right on a p... Read more
Why do I forget how incredibly sick and crappy I felt during my super high blood sugars? It was only 12 days ago! 40
Remembering that "feeling"... Read more
The past few days I've been going through a phase where nothing sounds good to eat. I'm not really hungry and everything I think of that I usually mak... Read more
Overslept. Yesterday was an energetic day. Had so much energy left, I couldn't fall to sleep. Eventually the sandman caught up with me. Taking it li... Read more
One of my best and worst qualities is my desire to put 100% into everything I do. Wanting to do your best is a good thing but sometimes you can only p... Read more
My sweet old neighbor took me to lunch at something fishy...fried flounder, boiled potatoes, hushpuppies....yum! First, I put half of my food in a to-... Read more
I have finally accepted me as me. I love saying that. Over the past year and a half, lots of personal life crisis' have happened and have put a damp... Read more
My youngest son is my cheerleader! He seems to enjoy hearing my accomplishments of losing weight and on how many miles I walked. He even encourages... Read more
The lunch today was fun, but I did eat more than I should have. I had a black bean burger and fries, whereas a salad would have been the better option... Read more
Do you ever put something in your mouth without giving it a thought? What I mean is, do you think, what nutrional value does a food have when you plac... Read more
I am pretty good thank you. Today had been a good day. I am 'working from home'. I put that in parenthesis because when I work from home, I do in f... Read more
I'm about halfway through with the book 'Wheat Belly'. There is a lot of info in that book. Tons of stuff that makes me really question our modern med... Read more
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