The holidays are never good to my waistline. This year, especially so--I put on 8 pounds between my birthday and the new year. Note to self: Not wise to hold Meatsgiving right before Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

Having a birthday that involved a lot of eating the same week as a holiday that involved a lot of eating was not very conducive to my waistline. My weight has slowly crept up recently. Then, being off last week, and not being as active, and eating full meals three times a day, well, the pants were a little tighter than they've been ( Read more... )

I've been thinking to myself, somewhat jokingly, that I'm working my butt off these days. Ten-hour active days will do that. Well, it's no longer a joke. I weighed myself this morning and I'm at my lowest point potentially all year. What's really weird is that the week after I got my glasses, after our shopping spree at Whole Foods--AKA the week of ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend in relative isolation. I was okay with that. The only human contact I had on Saturday was when my father called--at like 8:15 AM--to check in. He nearly called an hour earlier but mom thankfully put the kibosh on that. I hadn't slept that great, though I'd slept on the floor and managed to go until 5 AM, then I moved to the ( Read more... )

It's a week past Easter, and while I have had a few food items that had been verboten, I haven't really gone off the wagon. It's mostly because I don't want to. We have plenty of candy in the house, and while at times I've wanted something sweet, I just can't bring myself to eat it. It's not something I crave. Bread, I've had a few frozen ( Read more... )

These past couple weeks at work have left me so tired. At one point roughly half of our workforce was off. This week, my boss and I were pretty much running the show…and ended up dealing with some frustrating problems that, one, kept us from doing other work, and two, will then cause a headache for our vacationing coworker. We know he'll be ( Read more... )

For the first time in nearly a week, I was able to button my pants properly. I'm still not sure what to make of what happened last week, when my body rebelled against getting squeezed into my work pants. I had moments of dots of pains in various places throughout the intervening days, plus that feeling in your chest where you can't tell if it's ( Read more... )

Around Christmas, I started to get a complex. Not only did I randomly start getting Elle magazine in the mail, but I got a teeth whitening pen in my stocking from my mom, and both mom and grandma gave me mirrors. Um, are you trying to tell me something about my appearance?

I was reminded of this again today, as another copy of Elle showed up. ( Read more... )

This is in part inspired by my goddaughter last week. We didn't sit together at the recital, and I didn't see her until the whole thing was over. She'd come over and had congratulated her sister and we all started walking up the ramp together to go out into the lobby. I'd worn my hair down, having actually done it that day, and she was behind me ( Read more... )

This morning marked the 200th day since I first played Wii Fit; I've managed to get on it for most of that time. I haven't missed a day since Easter, which is over 15 weeks now. Granted, on some days I'm only weighing myself, either because I'm too busy to do the exercises, would rather play Wii Sports, or simply don't feel like it. But, for the ( Read more... )