We have finished 10% of our journey together, and I decided I am ready to be totally transparent about my relationship with food and how I got where I am today. I spent some time this last week checking out other weight loss blogs, and after spending some time on the site Can You Stay for Dinner […]
Week 7: Time for Serious Change
OK, friends, I am ready to accept it. It is time for serious change. Up to this point in the 80 Pounds in 80 Weeks challenge, I have focused on increasing exercise and making small changes to my food consumption, but this week I decided it is time to make some serious changes. While I […]
Week 5: Positive Mental Attitude
I am late in posting this week’s “80 Pounds in 80 Weeks” update because I was discouraged yet again. I increased my daily exercise from 15 minutes to 30 minutes, but the scale didn’t budge a bit. I was ready to be reenergized by a loss of 2-3 pounds; I was confident I sweated away […]
Week 4: Increased Exercise
I am now three weeks into my “80 pounds in 80 weeks” weight loss challenge. The first week I lost 2 pounds by adding 15 minutes of exercise and 32 ounces o f water to my daily routine. The second week, I prepared healthy snacks on the weekend to prepare me to battle the afternoon […]
Week 3: Food Journal
Here we are again, two weeks into the eighty week challenge, on a journey to lose eighty pounds. I wasn’t expecting disappointment this soon, but I guess that is how the real world works. Even though I was hoping to lose another two pounds, my weight remained even this week. (For those of you not counting, […]
80 Pounds in 80 Weeks
Today was a beautiful spring day. I was happy, productive, and feeling great. Then all of a sudden, whammo! I had been walking down the street, saw my reflection in a shop window, and it was like someone had just thrown a ball at my stomach. I realized what I really looked like, how others […]