The Last Straw

I have lost about 21 pounds now and I expected to get on some jeans that I had packed away. Nope. The waist is way too small. By like a couple of inches. I didn’t want to let that get me down though, so when I bought new pants this weekend I just got the [...]

I have now lost 10% of my body weight. That was one of my little goals for along the way, although it is not really that big of a deal. I am much more excited about no longer being obese on the BMI charts. My little dot on my weight chart on fitday is halfway [...]

Well, after who even knows how long I got my wedding band back on today.  I had just been wearing just my engagement ring and the wrap type ring that B had gotten me for some anniversary…maybe 5th.
I have this thing about rings. If my finger is too fat and there is any chance that I can’t [...]

 
Arg. I can’t allow myself to obsess about pounds or certain goals because due to my blood pressure and cholesterol, I need to view these changes in my lifestyle as permanent. BUT I did allow myself to look towards a couple of goals. The first one was to cross over from obesity to just plain [...]

I have been avoiding pizza. I just hadn’t thought that I could fit it into my plan and I am not strong enough to be cheating. Not yet anyway. So my plan is 1,500 calories a day and low fat grams (no more than 11 grams of saturated fat per day).
Point being, I fit it [...]

I am not a joiner. I don’t do candle parties and basket parties and girly-girl conferences. I am female, but I don’t understand women. I don’t really understand men either, but that is irrelevant. In general, I guess I am pretty independent. I don’t mind being alone and I don’t need someone to go to [...]

This day…oy yoy yoy. I have four kids, so that means that I have a storage tub full of Easter basket goodies hidden in my room. I don’t put a lot of chocolate in their baskets, but it is Easter so there has to be SOME chocolate. So I was in there today sorting it [...]

 
I promised myself that since this is about my heart health, I would NOT let the scale get in my way. And it is a good thing that I really meant that when I said it. The scale gave me a peak at 187.4 the other day and I didn’t log it in to fitday [...]

Healthy Choice Pasta Sauce  60 calories in half of a cup (compared to 70 in regular Ragu traditional sauce) and no fat. Seems to have a little less sodium. Tastes ok, but probably is not necessary because the difference between regular sauce and this is just not that much unless you are being extremely careful about [...]

Until yesterday, I really didn’t feel as though I was sacrificing much. The family meals were going well, my lunches were a treat, and breakfast is pretty much similar to how I always ate. Then last night, B wanted tortilla soup. And the tortilla soup recipe is fine….up to a certain point. I mean, it [...]