Unbelievable…another 3 pounds gone

And gone for good, I might add.  That puts my loss for this month at 11 pounds.  Believe me, I totally understand that this rate of weight loss will not continue forever, but I’m going to take it while I can. When I put all of my stats in on SparkPeople.com, I said I’d like [...]

The long and winding road to fitness, day 202

Wow!  There are times I regret not giving this weight loss journey my all for the past 202 days…how much weight would I have lost had I done that? But…I can’t change the past…what I can do is use this to motivate me to work harder to stick with my food plan and exercise program.  [...]

My relaxing final day of vacation

Ahh…don’t you just love being on vacation, staying home where you can get a few things done, get some rest, catch up with all of your activities?  Yeah…like it ever really happens that way. I haven’t thoroughly cleaned the house during the time I’ve been off.  I didn’t go shoe shopping so I’ll still be [...]

Calories burned…

Okay, I’ve been alternating between my treadmill and my exercise bike for cardio this week…I track everything on SparkPeople.com so I have a general idea of how many calories I’m burning with my exercise.  But I’m wondering if it’s really true that I’m burning more calories on the exercise bike than I am with walking…that seems [...]

I’m dedicating the year 2012 to my health and fitness

It’s hard to believe that 2011 is coming to an end.  I didn’t manage to make the strides I’d hoped to make concerning my health and fitness this year.  Overall I gained weight and lost fitness.  Not quite the way I wanted to go.  I’ve spent the past few weeks planning how to make permanent [...]

The long and winding road to fitness, day 110

How pleasant to have a day off work and have the weather be amazingly gorgeous.  I went out to the farmers market this morning, bought a butternut squash and some other cute little squash (I can’t remember the name of it, but take my word for it, it’s cute!). I also bought a bunch of [...]

The long and winding road to fitness, day 15

What a difference a day can make…that and a little planning!  I ate so much healthier today….lots of fresh fruit and veggies, some fish and whole grains.  That’s more like it!  Planning what I’m going to eat for the day really does work for me.  I use the SparkPeople nutrition tracker and get all kinds [...]

The long and winding road to fitness, day 3

Whew…am I ever glad to be back home.  I had to be at work at 5 am today and ended up with only about two and a half hours of sleep…wide awake at 2 in the morning and couldn’t go back to sleep.  I hate it when that happens.  One of the things I’ve figured [...]

2011 is almost half over and my weight loss is…

…kind of going nowhere.  Why?  Well, I’ve simply been eating the wrong food (and way too much of it) and not exercising enough.  I’ve been in a lot of pain for most of this year.  The thing is, not exercising doesn’t ease the pain, so I might as well exercise and at least lose some [...]

I’m stalled on the weight loss highway

You know how frustrating it is when your car breaks down?  Well, that’s how I’m feeling in my weight loss efforts.  I’m eating too much of the wrong kinds of foods and not really getting in enough exercise.  Why?  Work?  Well, yeah…but who doesn’t work?  And I’ve been able to combine work and a healthy [...]