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 [...]
Back by popular demand – while trying to spice up the drudgery of the dreaded food journal we decided to pretend it was also a note to our Vampire/Werewolf Fantasy Boyfriend. In other words if Bella Swan had a food journal…. More ways to make logging your food fun!
