Last 30 Pounds

This has been a somewhat eventful week for our family.  Our daughter had surgery (tonsils/adenoids/tubes), and although that is somewhat routine, of course I was still a very anxious mommy!! It is amazing to me how quickly I returned to old, unhealthy eating habits during this stressful time.  No matter how much weight I lose, [...]

It has been a whole week since my last post–so sorry to those who were looking for updates this week! Life has been a little crazy, and very busy.  One of the things I have been thinking about a lot during this fast-paced week is the importance of setting health concious goals.  Long-term goals, short-term [...]

One of the toughest things for me to do while losing weight, has been letting go of my perfectionism.  If I allowed it to I could become completely obsessed with weight loss, and let my progress or lack of for that matter consume my life.  This post from back in December helps to remind me [...]

My weight stayed the same this week.  I wasn’t really expecting a loss this week, after a very successful week last week.  That kind of seems to be my pattern as of late: lose a lot, maintain for awhile, lose a lot, maintain for awhile.  That’s fine–learning to maintain is important too!!

Here is something I [...]

Here is a link to a great article on a fabulous website called Spark People.  There are motivational tips, recipes, discussion boards, fitness tips, etc.  It is completely free to join too.

On Fridays I am going to post a “flashback” post from my old blog that I started close to a year ago.  This will help give some insight into what things were like for me when I was first starting my weight loss program.  The following is a post that [...]

“You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”
-George Bernard Shaw

I am excited to share with you the first “guest post” of what I hope will be many on my blog!! I am so grateful to Dr. Bell, Medical Director of Great Lakes Weight and Wellness, Melissa Thomas, Program Coordinator and all other staff at GLWW for their help.  I do not believe I would [...]

This post is in response to one of the comments posted, requesting more specific information about how I am losing weight:

Can you be a little more specific about how you are losing 5 lbs in a week? My weight loss has flat lined lately and no matter how I’m changing it up, I feel like [...]

Every Monday I intend to “weigh in” and let readers know how the progress is going.  I should mention that of course there are lots of great ways to measure weight loss–and sometimes the scales can be the least reliable way due to water weight, etc.. Clothing fitting looser, measurements, overall energy increase, etc. are [...]