Cruising and Weight Management
I just got back from a cruise, a first time endeavor for me and my husband. We did ten days in the Mediterranean, starting in Athens and ending in Barcelona, with a couple of days at each end in those...
View ArticleWeek 2 Complete: Other Signs of Progress
After last Monday’s annoying results, I’ve been keeping my head down and focusing on working my program to the max. So if my results are less-than-great this week there is absolutely no biological or...
View ArticleStaying Tough in The Big Easy
I just got back from a week in New Orleans to celebrate Christmas and New Years! New Orleans…the biggest, baddest food city in the country. I mean, that’s a city where good food has been elevated to an...
View ArticlePlanning Around My Hard Week
I had to be in the office this week, completely disrupting my exercise schedule. As I mentioned earlier, I shifted to doing my workouts in the evenings the moment I got home from work, then getting on...
View ArticleWork(out) Schedule Juggling
Really quick update today. I’ve been apprehensive about how this week was going to go because I need to actually be in the office for work every day from Monday to Friday – completely upsetting my...
View ArticleThe Scourge of Decision-Making
If you’re looking to manage your weight, to maintain or even lose a few pounds, one of the very effective tools you can use is to reduce the number of decisions you have to make. This is because...
View ArticleA Weekend of Food Challenges
I had a really fun weekend full of non-stop eating opportunities! Friday night my husband and I went to the restaurant of a friend of ours, who is an amazing charcutier. That means there weren’t a lot...
View ArticleAlmost done with this conference. Hallelujah!
Today wasn’t quite as great as yesterday. But, in the “win” category: Room service breakfast of oatmeal and coffee Mid-morning snack of an orange and some berries plus a little yogurt. Lunch I mostly...
View ArticleSmall Measures of Success
This week I’m at a conference in San Diego, staying at a hotel all week. Today I: Chose wisely from the breakfast buffet. Including grabbing an orange to eat during the morning coffee break. Didn’t eat...
View ArticleI think we’ve found your problem, America.
PG&E shut off our power today from 8am to 5pm. I misread the letter they sent us, thought they were doing it Tuesday, so my husband and I had arranged to be out all day Tuesday, but no, it’s today....
View ArticleYellow Squash – Raw?
This week I’m back at the all-day meetings in a hotel conference room for work. Today the afternoon snack that the hotel catering staff brought in really impressed me, and I learned something new. They...
View ArticleResuming My Running Habit
Got up again today and went for a run. This morning I saw goslings on the canal with their parents, SO CUTE! I also saw an opossum swimming and getting chased off by one of the adult geese. I didn’t...
View ArticleDon’t Panic
Tuesday weigh-in didn’t go so well today. It’s been 3 weeks since my last weigh-in. Two weeks during which I was traveling and trapped eating catered food for almost every meal. I did my best but...
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