Archive for July, 2009

Putting Some Color in My Meals

[Cross-posted from kayedacus.com]
In my effort to raise my interest in healthy foods, I’ve decided that for the rest of the summer (and into the fall, however long it lasts), I’m going to do as much of my food shopping at the large farmers’ market in downtown Nashville. Rather than fight the crowds on the weekends, [...]

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Weekly Weigh-In 7/26/09

I forgot to do my weekly weigh-in post yesterday.
On July 19, I weighed for the first time in two weeks. The two weeks before that, I’d been up a total of five pounds. When I weighed in last Sunday, I was up an additional 8 pounds (272). But this week, after having been home [...]

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Midweek Commitment Check

In my post Monday, I asked what you could commit to (or re-commit to) this week in the quest to live a more healthy lifestyle. My main commitment for this week is exercise—at least 20-30 minutes a day. I’ve been helped (considerably) in this by the fact that we’ve been having freakishly autumn-like weather the [...]

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I Want to Be a LOSER!

Before I went to Denver last week, I proofread a book for Guideposts written by a past-season finalist from The Biggest Loser (Fat Chance by Julie Hadden, releasing in December 2009). Now, I’ve never watched the show; I have a major problem with the whole idea that they’re going to not just sequester people for [...]

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I need NEW FOOD!

It should start being a pretty good clue that my “healthy eating plan” (a.k.a. DIET) isn’t going well when I haven’t posted here in several weeks. It’s always exciting to come home from WW and post about a loss. It’s embarrassing to have to come back and post a gain. And that’s what I’ve been [...]

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