I Eat Too Much. Period.

These past couple months I’ve been in a funk. I’ve just felt melancholy, lethargic, and defeated in life in general. There is no real spur for these emotions, no crisis going on, and no life changing event that spurred my slow downward spiral in depression. I almost wish there was so that I could point [...]

Weekly Update: Starting Over

Starting Weight: 224.8 (1/16/09)
Current Weight: 224.8
Weekly Loss: –
Total Loss: -
Random Reflections:

Ah to be a life-lution/resolution cliché. Sadness I tell you. This week was rough. I fell into a funk. How do I nurture feelings of sadness? With food of course. Falling off the wagon [...]

Adventures in the Kitchen: Turkey Parmesan

To cheer myself up yesterday after my sad funk, I decided to try and cook. My cooking skills are… let’s just say calling them “minimal” is generous. I pulled out my South Beach Diet Quick & Easy Cookbook and decided to attempt making Turkey Parmesan.
People this turned out fabulous! And it was easy! And while [...]

Control What I Eat (January Life-lution) Update

So far, so good. It hasn’t been easy though. Especially the whole “eating out less” part.
On Sunday my husband and I went through a stack of cookbooks to find recipes to make. We were excited for like, a nanosecond. Halibut with tapenade in parchment! Turkey Parmesan! Champion all-beef chili! Chickenetti! We felt accomplished, having written [...]

January Life-lution: I Choose to Control What I Eat

Happy New Year everyone!!! **throws confetti and blows one of those annoying noise makers** Did you all have a good New Years Eve? Are you looking forward to tackling 2009? I AM!

January I’ll be starting with the basics: controlling what I put in my mouth to control the number I see on the [...]

Looking Forward: 2009 will be EXCITING!

 Monthly Life-lutions
Instead of setting way too many New Year’s resolutions and failing at executing them all within the first two weeks, I’m deciding to take a new approach this year. I’m setting 12 life-lutions: goals that I will fully commit to for one month a piece. At the beginning of each month I’ll provide information [...]

Managing Stress, a Noggin Recipe, and an Amazingly Inspirational 9 Year-Old

At my LEARN Class this week we reviewed ways to reduce stress. The nutritionist started the class with this quote:
“The events” in life do not cause stress: our thoughts about the events cause stress.
Changing your thoughts can change your stress.” – Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D.

It’s an interesting concept: we control the stress we experience [...]

Reflections: What Working, What Isn’t, and What’s Holding Me Back

Goals:

I choose to be healthy. I want to minimize/eliminate my PCOS symptoms through healthy eating, exercising, and pharmaceutical management.
I choose to lose my negative self-image.
I choose to lose damaging eating habits. I want to learn to control my behavior when it comes to food and develop positive ways to cope with my emotions.
I choose to [...]

My “Me” Weekend

 

This weekend I spend sleeping in and cuddling with Sarcasman, getting my body moving again, consuming some of my favorite magazines, getting things done around the house that desperately needed to be done to re-claim my sanity, and getting all dolled up and attending a Christmas party. It was a fabulous weekend and left me [...]

I CAN Do It!

Yesterday I slept in. Late. As in, till 5 pm late. No that’s not an exaggeration. I’m thinking it has to do with a cold bug that’s going around but I don’t feel like I have a cold right now. Could it be exhaustion from the past two weeks catching up with me? Could it [...]