My dear friend The Kegel Queen left a question on Project Weight Loss: Week 8 that required me to do a bit of leg work to answer. I realized that some of you might have wondered something similar before too, and so I decided to turn it into a blog post. Then I realized that I kind of liked …
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Dear Ali: Can We Eat the Whole Box of Cookies?
November 21st, 2012 | Posted by in Dear Ali - (9 Comments)Zak and I were in college when we met and started dating. He taught me how to play racquetball early in our relationship, and it came to be something we did together quite regularly at (my) school where we had easy access to racquetball courts. Whenever we played, he always won. I never felt bad …
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Week 6 of Project Weight Loss will go down in the Mama’s Weeds history books as The Week That Life Got in the Way. Birthdays, birthday celebrations, friends visiting from out of town, hurricanes, Halloween, plus the all usual the family and baby stuff. Let’s just say it’s been a full week. Last week I …
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Project Weight Loss rolls on! Today marks the end of Week 3. If you recall, last week I hooted and hollered when I saw I was down to 144.8 from 146.0 the week before. This week instead of shouting “Hooray!” I said “Really?!” because when the scale said 143.8 this morning, I had a hard …
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I Have Something To Tell You About Butternut Squash
October 8th, 2012 | Posted by in Lunch - (4 Comments)This is Butternut Squash #3 in my kitchen this fall. My skin is turning more orange by the minute. Stinking beta carotene. That’s actually not what I wanted to tell you. No, what I wanted to tell you is that when butternut squash is peeled, cubed and roasted in coconut oil, it reminds me a …
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Well, it’s the end of Week 2 of my little Project Weight Loss here. Last week at the end of Week 1 I weighed in at 146.0. Today? 144.8 (Did you hear me shouting HOORAY at 6:30 AM, EDT today!?) I was VERY happy to see 144 on the scale this morning, especially considering I haven’t …
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One week ago today was my “It’s Time to Get Serious About Weight Loss” start date. My Body Weight Time Line from 2011 and 2012 In the early summer of 2011, I weighed 133 on my home scale and was very content with that. October of 2011 I found out I was pregnant. I had …
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Project Weight Loss (Postpartum Edition)
September 27th, 2012 | Posted by in Weight Loss - (6 Comments)I have decided that it’s time to get serious about my postpartum weight loss. I’m going to blog about it because I love to write about losing weight and I love to see people get excited about losing weight too. I once heard someone say, “you talk about what you think about”, and weight loss …
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Weight Loss Before and After Photos
September 17th, 2011 | Posted by in - (2 Comments)My weight loss success story started at the end 2007 with these pictures. The photo of me in sitting on the floor in the yellow shirt is the one that pushed me over the edge and made me realize it was finally time to get serious about weight loss. Before the Weight Loss Fall and …
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Lose Weight Without Counting Calories
September 16th, 2011 | Posted by in Weight Loss - (1 Comments)This is the third post in a three part series about measuring the various aspects related to weight loss to more effectively achieve weight loss success. This series began with the line “what gets measured gets managed“. Part 1 was about counting calories. Part 2 was about keeping track of your work out stats. Part …
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