November Results!

I lost a total of 13 pounds in November!

How fabulous is that? I feel really good about myself at the moment. I did well last month. I wasn’t perfect, but that’s fine – I know where I can make improvements, and I also know that I’ll never be perfect. And that’s just a-ok with me

I made an effort to plan quite a bit. I knew in the mornings what I would be having for

Hooray!

Wow, do I ever feel good.

This morning I weighed in at 307.6 pounds. I’m down just over 10 pounds so far this month, and I’ve actually been having fun with it. Go figure! I’m loosely planning meals – making sure that I have fruit and vegetables for both lunches and suppers, and I’m trying some different recipes. I’ve done over 18 hours of exercise. And I haven’t had take-out at all!! So this is also

Ponderings and a Challenge

Nope, didn’t stick!

But I found a little insight this last couple of weeks. I realized that I had to find the fun in weight loss again. When I lost 100 pounds, it wasn’t easy at all – but there were parts that I really enjoyed. All those little milestones. The stars on my WW graph. The feeling of being lighter than I’d been in many, many years.

Now I feel weighed down not only by the

This Is the Song That Never Ends

Here I am yet again after a few weeks of absence and – go figure – unhealthy eating. What happened? Well, I just gave up. Things went well while I was in St. John’s. My mum and I played tennis daily, and we went on lots of walks with my neice and nephew. We ate relatively healthily, with some treats here and there (I made an ice cream cake for my nephew’s birthday – oh

Plodding Along

Work sucks right now. It’s busy and stressful for everybody, so there’s a lot more loss of temper and sniping around the office. I’ve been going in early and staying later, which means that I haven’t made much of an effort to get any exercise in. I make excuses – I’m too tired, I won’t have as much time to relax and wind down…whatever. They’re excuses. I know it, and still I don’t push myself

JFDI Week 1 Results!

Funny how it works, isn’t it? I was determined to stay on plan this week, and I did it. It wasn’t even that hard! And I was rewarded with a 6.8 pound loss on the scale!

Ok, so even I am rolling my eyes at that. It’s the honeymoon phase all over again, when planning is kind of fun, and seeing the number on the scale go down quickly is insanely motivating. I know better than

JFDI – Day 6

Somehow it seems a little wrong that I’ve eaten 50 points worth of food today and I’m still OP. It was all planned, and pretty healthy, but it was still a lot. Most of it was in the huge steak I cooked, after marinating it all day in my mum’s teriyaki marinade. I had the wine leftover from last night, and a bit too much potato (something I really need to work on).

I guess

Friday Night – Wine and Ramblings

Hey, guess what? This is Day 5 completely OP! I don’t think I’ve had so good a week in well over a year, so yay me! I’m celebrating with a glass of wine. Well, two glasses of wine. Dude, I have 21 Flex left! I can afford it.

I’ve finally gotten back to watching TBL Australia, Season 4. I marathoned the first 2/3 of it a couple of months ago, but I got tired of

Yummy Broccoli, Icky Pie, and a Sweet Colleague

When I went to Guelph for university, the eating options were just incredible. My sister had gone to Mount Allison, and their meal cards could only be used in cafeterias run by Marriott, and apparently the food was crap. I don’t know why Guelph’s was so great. The actual cafeterias had family-restaurant quality food, with salad bars and all kinds of fresh fruit, but there were all kinds of alternatives. We had a sports bar