Today's Spark Coach video was about cooking, and how we need to learn to plan and cook to be successful. I am guilty of not cooking as much as I coul... Read more
312 23 319 320 Today my blog is all about improving my fitness levels-they are actually at an all time low. In part because I gained a stack of wei... Read more
Yesterday wasn't that great of a day. Oh well.
Today I am going to be scrambling. Have to spend several hours helping my MIL and find some t... Read more
I'm back again! Finding it hard to sit down and write anything!
So things are going along. I've been logging my food as precisely as possible a... Read more
Today I embarked on a new plan 'The Fast Diet'
Essentially the plan is that you eat normally (not excessively 5 days a week and limit to 500 ca... Read more
What a crazy weekend and it is starting off a crazy week. Work sort of exploded but that's ok. It's just not a great time for that to happen as I hav... Read more
This year, with the help of my hubby and BFF, I'm going to plant some fruits and vegetables and have some organic treats! The nice thing is, that the... Read more
This week's been less than a half hearted effort I must say. I have just felt tired and run down and not up to getting up extra early to exercise. F... Read more
This week I focused on chewing my food more. I noticed that I normally tend to chew my food about 8 times before i swallow. That isn't very much, an... Read more
I had the CAT scan and the multipul pulmonary embolisms in both lungs are GONE! Woohoo!
The insurance company had to put me back on my proper me... Read more
Well, it is Day 11 of the 23 so about half way there and I am down 17.2 pounds from my highest (after the 2 load days) which is 15 pounds from my orig... Read more
So last week I lost over 3 pounds. I was a week and a half into a new workout and ate out a grand total of three times. This week was a little more... Read more
46 After yesterday's outage at SparkPeople, I was very surprised to learn how dependent on the site I am. I felt lost that I couldn't track my food or... Read more
So my hubby and I went to Claim Jumper for his birthday last night. I researched the menu online and that restaurant is not very diet friendly. Some... Read more
Tomorrow my mom is having knee surgery. Hopefully it will be an easy recovery for her. It throws a bit of a wrench in my week but if I focus today I... Read more
To my dear SparkFriends, who I love very much:
It confused me at the time. Back in November of 2011 one of my Spark Teammates put a comment on m... Read more
Things are starting to warm up to the summer rush at work. It makes it hard for me to steal a few minutes to check in with my Spark teams and start p... Read more
I stress ate yesterday. I got some not so great news about a far away family member and I can't do anything to help, so I ate. However, I tracked ever... Read more
To blog, of course! I love that feeling when something motivates me to do something that's good for me! For the last few weeks I have wanted to get ba... Read more
Well that is what I am aiming for at least 30
244 I didn't cave into the cookies or the candies yesterday. I don't know if DH took the brown... Read more
So we’ve come around to Monday again. I can’t believe it, but it’s been 4 weeks and I’m still here. Of course, it’s no true test – so far all my pro... Read more
Not only is it Monday, it is Monday afternoon. Phew... and I still feel really far behind in everything. Small crisis for work this morning has put s... Read more
I plateaued out for a year after losing my first 100 pounds, so plateaus are not new to me and that lesson taught me to never EVER give up.
My... Read more
Well, so far so good! Although it has not been a whole week, Saturdays are easiest for me to blog so I will start now.
I began with 2 calorie lo... Read more
I call it "**BOOM!!!!** week"
When I first start exercising and eating better there is always that one week (usually either week 1,2 or 3), wher... Read more
Whew! Yesterday was so busy I never got ‘round to putting any thoughts down. So far things are going well – today I brought bunches of fruit for sna... Read more
I'm disappointed in my step count for the week. Rest doesn't seem to be helping with the leg pain all that much so I am going to work on getting... Read more
This week just isn't looking good for any sort of a loss. Right now I am just trying to minimalize the damage.
Plus I think it is "that" week wh... Read more
So yesterday turned out to be a "good" day. It took me forever to finish the report I was working on and I didn't get in that much movement but I made... Read more
OK, so I'm kind of naturally the rebellious type, but mostly the "rebelling against the cool kids who think that they're being individuals by doing th... Read more
I have been seeing a naturopath for about a year and a half now. I started to see her after my dad died of a sudden heart attack at age 62. It devas... Read more
Whew! Lunch break on Wednesday – at the absolute middle of the week. Things are looking good so far.
We had Thai Massaman beef curry last night... Read more
I read an article about motivation this morning. "Viewing motivation as the ability to resist the lure of "bad" foods or overcome the appeal of lying... Read more
Almost every Tuesday, my hubby and I go to a friend's house for dinner. She loves to experiment, and she belongs to a garden co-op - so we never know... Read more
Well it is a new day, but it won't necessarily be a good one...at least in terms of the food tracker. I have tracked everything so far but I am... Read more
Well, it's Monday! Weigh in is tomorrow. Does anyone ever feel like they'd like just One More day to be good before they weigh in? I mean, I was... Read more
Not sure what my problem has been the last several days. I just don't want to do this anymore. I never seem to get anywhere, regardless of my calorie... Read more
The girl in the purple dress is me with Chris Downie, Coach Nancy, Sheenadee, Lynn Youngblood Aufman, Bil Alex, Ann Dawson, then Chris Downie an... Read more
Chronic pain can make it difficult to get a good night's sleep but restful sleep helps with pain management. Here's how to break the vicious cycle of pain and sleep.
