weight loss

my scale battery died, I swear

I haven’t weighed myself this week. I stepped on the scale Monday night and it was dead. I did all I could to resuscitate her. My medical knowledge assures me that a couple of 3 volt lithium coin buttons will bring her back to life. When I can get to the store. I’m trying to [...]

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a lot of stress eating

I slacked off this past week BIG time. I bought Little Debbie Nutty Bars over the weekend and ate a whole box in two days. I have a stack of viable excuses for this behavior. I always do. My life is the definition of stress. I didn’t excercise at all like I said I would [...]

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I want to be a loser

“Soy un perdidor. I’m a loser, baby. So why don’t you kill me” -Beck Except this one’s not about depression. Imagine that. this time, I’m trying to lose weight- again. It’s the American way. The CDC reports that adults age 20 years and over who are overweight or obese in America is 67% (2005-2006). I [...]

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derailed

Last week confirmed my choice to not make New Year’s Resolutions and make simple goals instead. I have been battling sinus pain since we had a stretch of windless days and high air pollution before Christmas. I had a follow-up with my pulmonologist and she put me on a high-powered antibiotic to clean me out. [...]

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the trick to losing weight is to pretend like you don’t care if it stays or goes

I have been working out like a mad woman for months now. I even bought a scale. And the way I shed a few pounds? Ignoring everything. That makes no sense. Then again, my life rarely does. I am sure there is a magic bullet I have missed, like not eating everything in sight when [...]

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Read This, You Will Not Be Sorry

RhiInPink is having a contest. She compiled The Official List For the Rest of Us: Must Read Books for the Twenty or Thirty-Something Career Girl With an Active Social Life and Reality TV to Watch. Not that I fit into that heading very well. I am more the Almost-30 Stay-At-Home Mom with out Television and [...]

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