I haven't really spelled out what I'm doing on Facebook or Livejournal, but here's a quick synopsis ( Read more... )

It's the seventh!  I imagine many of you made your resolutions prior to the New Year, drank and ate to excess on the Eve, and then threw yourself into high gear on the 1st to get these resolutions going.  Not me.  I mean, I did the first part -- the excessive eating and drinking, the ignoring my novel, the letting the laundry lapse.  All that good ( Read more... )

I'm a day late in posting this because I was hoping there would be better stats to report. Turns out a week of fluctuation has left me right back where I was last week. As much as I love to watch numbers drop, I loathe to watch them rise and that brings me to this resolution: weighing only once a week. I shouldn't start my morning grimacing and ( Read more... )

It's hard for me to believe we've only been doing this a month. Every meal's choices come naturally now. I do like knowing well ahead of time when I'm going to a restaurant, though, so I can plan my meal accordingly from their website's menu. Take Friday night for example: We went to Lucille's BBQ, ate warm biscuits with apple-butter, giant ( Read more... )

I feel like I should make a quick list here just to point out why last week simply did not work. In fact, we could even go as far as to call it a "tremendous failure ( Read more... )

I'm nearing my the end of my third week of food combining. There was a glitch in week two and part of week three that Bob discovered. See, the book says you may start your day off with fresh fruit or fruit juice (or both), so I was doing both. Mom brought over her juicer and we were making delicious orange juice every morning. Turns out, the ( Read more... )

The week really ends on Monday, but I'm sitting alone downstairs, listening to raindrops smack the pavement, and it makes me reflective. This entire week I stuck to the plan - juice and fruit all morning and trading off between proteins and carbs to match with my vegetables. Bob and I nearly had a sweets breakdown last night (the idea of red ( Read more... )

I should probably wait until after I've had an official weigh-in to do a summary of my week, but I tend to write very little at home, and have a whopping 40 minutes left of a very quite lunch break to kill, so here we go. I'm going to go ahead and assume I did at least half as well as my home scale tells me ( Read more... )

In order to properly combine my foods, Fit For Life tells me I need to spend the morning consuming fruit as my breakfast. If you've met me you'll realize I only learned to enjoy oranges about two years ago. This narrows my fruit-field considerably. Bob and I went to the market last night to hunt down some 100% fruit juice (no concentrate!) that ( Read more... )

I'll admit that my writing has taken a backseat the last several days. There was a week's worth of video game playing, movie watching and wine drinking over the weekend and the last two days I've been rather obsessed with a new diet ( Read more... )