I am sitting here eating a bowl of cereal. No, that is not on the plan. I am not in the mood for the plan today. I have been up for three hours now and I am just now eating because I just couldn't make myself eat what I am supposed to eat. Ugh, now I feel full. I'm not accustomed to that lately. I am going to not take a free day today but ( Read more... )

Weighed in today, free day today. Down 4 pounds. A good day so far. I read a really good explanation of how/why the free day isn't as bad as some people think it is. Basically that 3500 calories = one pound. So unless you just go really nuts and eat 3500 calories more than you normally would anyway, you're not really going to offset your loss ( Read more... )

I've decided to record the details of each day of the program on another blogging site and just keep things more general here. Today went well, got in my workout and stayed on the eating program. As usual when I try to change my habits, the universe makes an effort to derail me. Got sick at the beginning of the year, right? Well, OK so I am on ( Read more... )

OK, went to the grocery store today and bought all of the needed foods. Have my meal plans printed out. Bought the Body for Life book, returned the crap one. I'm good to go. Going to start numbering at 001 again tomorrow, my first "official" day doing the Body for Life program. Even got an iPod Nano today to take with me to the gym ( Read more... )

Er, WTF mate? I should have looked more carefully at this Body for Life for Women book at the library. I am taking it back tomorrow and checking out the original. I opened it up and started reading and was thinking, huh? So I flipped through it and was not impressed at all by what I was seeing. "Eat right 80% of the time." Say what? If I ( Read more... )

Went to the library today, got the Eating for Life book. I'm about done with the actual reading portion. A good chunk of the book is recipes. And something I realized as far as fast and easy go is that eating this way is very simple. I didn't really think about the fact that this diet is a lot of grilled chicken breast, broccoli and brown rice ( Read more... )

OK, technically I am only 45 minutes into Day 4. But whatever. Day 3 wasn't great. I ate more in the evening than I should have. Back on the horse in the morning. OK, so. I probably sound like a 13-year-old dingaling. But I thought about the various programs on eDiets today. I looked over the ones that interested me. I talked to my husband ( Read more... )

I am ignoring the scale. Because the scale is a lying arsehole. It told me that I was up two pounds today. And only because I know that is insane am I not freaking out. I took my little one to the donut shop this morning. That's what we do on Fridays because he doesn't have preschool. We get our breakfast and chat and decide if we want to do ( Read more... )

No workout today. Shame on me. I didn't get much sleep last night and was quite pooped today. Also, my house is in such disarray. I am cutting myself some slack until next week when I absolutely must get my ass in gear ( Read more... )

OK, so I had to search high and low for the yoga DVD I wanted to do and finally found it. It was gooood. Only exercise I got in though ( Read more... )