Something weird happened this week. Someone said I looked thinner. This was weird because: I have not been working out. I have not been watching my diet. They see me every week. My current theory is that my new haircut  makes me look thinner. I know I feel like it makes me look younger. And [...]

My 6-week followup appointment was on Monday. Which means I’m officially recovered from the whole having a baby thing. And that means I can get back to my regularly scheduled weight loss. I’m breast-feeding, which means I can’t diet, but I think that’s good. Because it means I have to focus more on fitness. And [...]

Dieting. So many people do it. And it tends to work, at least in the short-term, but for long-term weight loss and maintenance, there’s one thing that so many people forget. There is such a thing as eating too little. There’s a little equation. Calories Eaten – Calories Used = Weight Loss/Gain/Maintenance. If you eat [...]

I have been thinking a lot about the state of my Weight Loss Wednesday posts. Part of me says I won’t be losing weight for a while, so I should stop them. The other part says that they’re the most popular posts on my blog, so I’d be stupid to stop them. So I’ve decided [...]

To start with, I am the sucktastic at getting blog posts up in time lately. I promise to be better and I’ve already determined what I’m going to talk about next week, and the week after that (though I still have to actually write the posts). Moving on. The Couch to 5k program is amazing. [...]

I lost another three pounds this week. It’s amazing to me how much weight I can lose even in weeks when I don’t really workout. But I’m eating so much better now, and I just think about what I’m eating and when.  I’m not just eating whatever’s in the kitchen and convenient. This week is [...]

I have been sick for about a week. It started out as a headache, then bloomed into a full-blown head cold. After a couple days of that, the congestion decided to go vacationing in my chest region. And it seemed to like it there, because it’s been hanging out there ever since. I am getting [...]

I joined a forum for supporting women with PCOS. They didn’t have an introductions forum, so I didn’t know where to post to jump in. So I wandered around, reading here, reading there. I went to their Weight Loss forum and read their “Start Here” post. And it had a link to SparkPeople.com. And I [...]

 I have a sweet tooth. I don’t deny it. And I enjoy sedentary activities like reading and writing and video games. These are things I struggle with as I attempt to lose weight. But, when it gets down to it, they are things that I can control. My biggest frustration, and the thing that frequently [...]

In the past, I’ve only used food journals when it was part of a school assignment or something. But when I was out shopping with my sister, I spotted a used copy of the Outwit Your Weight Journal. After flipping through it a little and reading the back, I bought it and I’m going to be [...]