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Looking for my waist: Are You Losing Weight?

If you have been following my Looking for My Waist blog, then you know I am having just as much problems losing weight as the next person. I started out actually gaining weight before ever losing a pound, and then I had many excuses to not exercise. Well I am happy to announce that I have had a much better week. Not only have I lost a pound in the last week, but also I have lost many inches, and I am hearing those four words every dieter wants to hear: Are you losing weight? Outwardly I reply, “I’m trying”, … Continue reading →

Looking for My Waist… Seriously

I feel like I have been playing at losing weight. I’m on board one day. I’m weak the next. The next day, I am good again. It is time to get serious. Excuses like I made last week, have to be a thing of the past. Procrastination is not my friend. A bad mood is not a good reason to overdose on chocolate. Having a good cook around is not a good reason to eat everything they make. If I am going to find my missing waist, I am going to have to be strong… very strong! Exercise… well, that’s … Continue reading →

Looking for My Waist: Being Positive in a Negative Place

I gained 3 ½ pounds this week. Last week I weighed 250 lbs, and now I weigh 253.5 lbs. To make matters worse, I had lost down to 245 lbs as of two days ago, but two days of Christmas feasting shot my weight through the roof. I am trying to go with the flow, to not take myself so seriously, but I am definitely in a negative place. The only consolation I have is that someone argued with me over my weight yesterday. He insisted that I do not look like I weigh over 200 pounds and should not … Continue reading →

Fad Diets: All You Can Eat in a Week

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This one is another starvation diet with a very low calorie count every day. Although it can be attractive by telling you to have “all you can eat”, the monotony of eating only a single food every day can lead you to abstain from eating at all later in the day because you just can’t bear to eat that one flavor again. On Day #1, you can eat all the fresh fruit you want (but only fruit) except for bananas. This can be a hard day on one’s intestines if you aren’t used to consuming a lot of fruit or … Continue reading →

Fitness & Your Hula Hoop

Does your child hula hoop? Before the Nintendo age, the hula hoop was a hit on every child’s block. I owned three of them and I could hoop with all three. My daughter has a pair of hoops and she loves to hoop herself, though she complains she’s not that good at it yet. They do hoops at her school, not as much as she would like, but they do have them there. Yet hula hooping seems to be a dying art for kids’ fun, but that’s okay, adults like me are getting back into the hooping at their fitness … Continue reading →

Eating Healthy on the Run

Sometimes, I’m too impulsive. I’ll get a spur of the moment idea and run with it. That’s how I found myself in a classroom again. I wanted something to do while my kids were in school, so I thought it might be a good idea to take classes, full-time, at a university. My goodness, I wasn’t prepared for it. For eight years, I did what I wanted, when I wanted. Suddenly, I was studying for hours and I had no social life. It wasn’t long before I missed those afternoon naps I used to take… and it showed. I hadn’t … Continue reading →

More Celebrity Fashion Trends– “Would You Wear It?”

Every few weeks I compile a list of clothing items I’ve witnessed stars wearing in various entertainment and fashion magazines. Typically, I would wear about 20% of the items I see, the other 80% I question why anyone would wear. Of course, buying is a lot different than wearing. I will admit I have a habit of seeing a particular outfit, hunting it down in a store and letting it sit in my closet for months. It’s not that it doesn’t fit or that it is unflattering, it’s simply because I don’t have anywhere to wear it. (Ah, the life … Continue reading →