Looking Thinner Without Losing Weight

You have been dieting for about a month but with your class reunion in two weeks, you realize you are not going to hit your weight loss goal. This reunion is the big one, the reunion where you wanted to show off your new and improved self but now you have doubts that you will look as great as you wanted to look. Well, do not be discouraged. Keep eating healthy foods and exercising rather than getting frustrated and stopping. However, you can also do a few things to make yourself look thinner; giving the illusion that you did reach … Continue reading

Momma’s on a Diet: So What’s Missing?

I’m now on week 4 of my diet and it’s going rather well – even if I do say so myself. I’m now 17 lb lighter than when I started. That’s without depriving myself of food, or even doing any exercise! The program is working for me. I will get to the exercise in the next few weeks, really I will – I’m even motivated to do this because I’ve seen such terrible photos of people who’ve lost a lot of weight and then had all this saggy redundant skin to carry around! But for now, my eating habits are … Continue reading

Figure: For the Plus-Size Woman

I wanted to be a model when I was a teenager, but the folks at the modeling school said that I was average. It didn’t mean that I couldn’t model. They meant that I didn’t have legs up to my ears and I wasn’t very thin. Between you and me, I still want to model. Once, I was in a fashion show, modeling plus-size clothes, and I felt fabulous. At the end, I had the option to buy the things that I wore, at a discount. Well, it wasn’t free…but a deal is a deal. You’re probably wondering what this … Continue reading