Halloween Inspired Goodness

Last night my friends and I had our traditional Pumpkin Surgery Party. Every year we have our party we always stare at the pumpkin goop and say “we should bake those seeds” then proceed to throw them away because none of us knew how to do it. Well this year I decided was the year [...]

Defiant to a Fault

After the third time of trying to start South Beach Diet phase 1 I think it’s time for me to re-assess the food situation. Each time I’d started phase one I last three or four days, then mess up somehow, then go “well I’ll start new tomorrow” and use that as a license eat the [...]

Kelly’s Super-Awesome Plan for Not Letting Her Broken Foot Derail Her Getting Healthy Journey

Operation KSAPNLHBFDHGHJ!

Exercise

Activity

Steps

Frequency

Notes

Strength Training

100PushUp Program

3x’s a week

Modify be doing on knees

Sit Ups

3x’s a week

Haven’t found a program. Anyone know of one?

Cardio Training

Water Aerobics

3x’s a week

Flexibility Training

Yin Yoga

2x’s a week

Eating

Modification

Continue eating South Beach/ low G.I .styled

Continual

Don’t beat yourself up for slip [...]

I’m Broken. No, Seriously…

I just got back from the podiatrist. My left foot has a stress fracture and is now cocooned in a less than fashionable orthopedic setting shoe. Good thing my pedicure from Victoria’s wedding is still holding up as my bright pink toenails are the only happy thing in the picture right now.
My Doctor asked what [...]

Getting to Know Just_Kelly: 6 Interesting(?) Facts

I was tagged by Lisa over at Defying Gravity to share 6 interesting facts about myself. Without further ado (and with PICTURES!)…

I have a radical, protesting, hippie past. It was a short but strong stint in my undergraduate days. It mainly revolved around organized labor issues: I was involved organizing a campaign against my university [...]

Gaining a Healthy Dose of Perspective

After my downer post last Friday I had quite a few perspective wake-up calls. First, the comments left by the readers helped me a lot. Whether it was pointing out my borderline hypocrisy with my previous Fat Talk Free post or reminding me to look at my own blog header or just encouraging words and [...]

Weekly Weigh-In: Bust.

Weekly Weigh-InStarting Weight: 224 (9/19/08, start of Biggest Loser Blog Edition challenge)Current Weight: 220Weekly Loss: +2Total Loss: – 4
Random Reflections:

This was a bad week. My eating was off, I didn’t exercise, and I binged yesterday on the way to the swimming pool (which I ended up not going to because I felt so awful from [...]

Friends Don’t Let Friends Fat Talk

How many times have you experienced conversations like this:
“How are you doing Jill? How was your weekend?”
“Oh it was great! We had a big family picnic and out of town relatives came in.”
“That sounds fun.”
“It was. Of course I ate too much…”
OR
“I love that top! Where did you get it?”
“Thanks! I got it at Kohl’s [...]

The Stand-Off with the Container of Ricotta

I’m sick. I think it’s the flu, I’m not sure; I just know I’m not 100%. It started yesterday around noon and it completely eroded my South Beach resolve. I came home and crashed in my bed, completely skipping my night class. The phone woke me up. Sarcasman called to know how I was feeling [...]

Make New Friends, But Keep the Ooollldddd; One is Silver and the Others Gold!

“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”~ Apocrypha
This weekend I went down to Orlando to perform my Captain of Awesomeness duties for my best friend Victoria. She was a beautiful bride, the day was magical, and everyone had a wonderful time. I had one of those “Aha!” moments over the weekend. Actually, it was [...]