( Read on for the latest health/fitness update, cross-posted from my alt journal. )

As I recover from the Christmas cold that stole my voice away from me on Christmas morning, reducing me to fits of coughing that kept me home both from a New Year's Eve party and from a post-NYE party yesterday, I'm finally beginning to feel more clear-headed again. There's nothing quite like being sick to make you appreciate the normal ( Read more... )

This is my entry for this week of LJ Idol, Season 9. Please check out the entries of my fellow competitors and consider joining the therealljidol community. This week was an open topic.

( Weight loss zombies and smirking reporters. )

Here's another article I wrote, published recently, that I'm not sure I shared. This one is about prenatal yoga.

How Prenatal Yoga Can Help With Pregnancy, Childbirth

This is my entry for this week of LJ Idol, Season 9. Please check out the entries of my fellow competitors and consider joining the therealljidol community. This week's topic was "Keep calm and end this meme."

( Watch out for the side effects. )

Last one for now:

My weight loss hasn't been big in terms of numbers, but the before-and-after pics say it all!

How the Virgin Diet Gave Me My Life Back

I've written a new personal piece for Yahoo! about weight loss and fitness. Let's hope this one doesn't attract the sort of nasty comments my previous piece got.

Ditch the Scale: Why Weight Isn't the Best Way to Gauge Fitness

This past year, I made slow and steady progress in cleaning and decluttering my house; seeking and finding some publishing opportunities; and of course, nurturing and expanding opportunities for my little Kung Fu Panda.

I've posted my specific goals in a couple areas on the blogs dedicated to those topics:

- For my writing goals, see my author's ( Read more... )

I am proud to report that I got my first mammogram today, after putting it off for more than a year. Honestly, it wasn't as bad as I'd feared.

( More decidedly PG info )

I should have known that accepting a Yahoo! News assignment about my personal struggles with obesity was opening myself up to hateful comments (which I've experienced on Yahoo! whenever one of my articles was featured on a main Yahoo! page, regardless of the subject matter), but this time it was particularly virulent ( Read more... )