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There was this chocolate cake in the refrigerator. It was from the store. It was supposed to go with us to a thing LAST week but we forgot it. It was in the fridge for OVER a week. I know. I’m pretty impressive willpower wise. Throughout the week it gained power. It spoke with its Chocolate [...]
Whether you lost or gained or maintained this week with your weight, it’s easy to get schlumpy. It’s easy to fall into the mindset of NOT spiffing up because you’re waiting to lose weight. Or perhaps you’ve been too busy lately to pull it together. Maybe volunteering to be room mom means your afraid you’ll [...]
We recently read Bethenny Frankel A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life (See all Success Books) – it’s a good little read. With a nod to the Skinny Girl we’re turning it around today for our diets. Come with us to A Place of No. We say no to kids to protect them, [...]
So I’m up. Not in mood, though I’m okay there, but up in weight. It’s hardly surprising. I spent the last two months thinking about, inventing, testing, and baking desserts. It was out of necessity and to achieve a goal. I HAD to be all desserts all the time if I wanted to compete in a [...]
So this used to be called our Diet Wagon. But we’re trying to be more “healthy lifestyle” so let’s just call it our Health Wagon. This is what it looks like when we fall off the Die..er Health Wagon. Notice the horns? SO in one week of being totally off the Health Wagon we’re looking at a month’s [...]
What I’m giving up is a double negative. I am giving up NOT exercising. You see I’ve been on a plateau. I have been stuck. My Fifteen Pound Foeis getting the best of me. I’ve slowly, crawlingly, haltingly, drip-drip-dripingly losing weight. And I haven’t wanted to exercise until I felt lighter. But now it’s clear [...]
We’re firming up a muscle today. No it’s not your abs or your biceps, it’s you mind. Your mind controls your willpower and your resolve. Your brain tells your feet to walk to the refrigerator. Your brain cues your hand to go in for the whole foods or the left over pizza. We need to [...]
Yep – we’re gearing up. We KNOW that Saturday was Day One for 2011 and if you started your diet on Saturday congratulations! You are ahead fo the game. But we pretty much always start on Mondays. So that means TODAY is like stretching before a workout. We’re getting our head straight, we’re outlining our goals, we’re [...]
The concept of work needs to be revisited. Losing weight is work. Staying healthy is work. And for dropping weight we need to think of work as vital to success. We need to accept that staying healthy is work. Let’s look at work in the context of the three important aspects of achieving a healthy [...]
