The past few days of cleaner eating has been very successful.  I am not craving sweets.  I have gone three nights without dessert and don’t really feel like I need anything after dinner.  I did eat a tablespoon of peanut butter at 8 PM because I felt a little hunger and I normally don’t eat [...]

For most of my life I have had dessert after dinner almost every night.  I don’t know why I believe that I should eat Jell-O or pudding or ice cream or cookies or graham crackers with peanut butter.  I have accounted for the calories in my diet, but as I try to change more of [...]

I know that some of the things that I am changing about my lifestyle may seem extreme for weight loss, but it is not all about weight loss.  I am making changes based on the fact that my ANA blood test revealed that I have an unspecified auto-immune disease and that there is a possibility [...]

The time has come to not only shake things up, but to get to the root of what is causing not only long term plateaus, but weight increases that sometimes I can account for and other times that I can’t.  I recently read the book, Master Your Metabolism and it has been a real eye [...]

Upon arriving at the gym this morning, I saw my friend entering as well and she stated that she was going to try to make it to spin class, but didn’t make it in time. I admitted to the same except that I was really supposed to be there forty minutes before spin to run [...]

The following was supposed to be my schedule for the next few weeks beginning two days ago, however, Mother Nature had other plans in store.  With four inches of snow and three snow days for my kids, which means no school, and not having a pool at home, I turned to other methods of physical [...]

There are 120 days until the Nashville Country Music Marathon, which I just registered for about ten minutes ago.  I figured there was no better time to register.  The new year will be upon me tomorrow.  I made a few resolutions:  Parker and I want to be able to do twenty-five push ups in a [...]

As Christmas is quickly approaching, I have been so focused on my weight, Christmas gift shopping, vacation planning and a variety of other things that I try not to let sadness creep in.  I keep going back to a conversation that I had with my mother on my sister, Brandi’s birthday this past October.  My [...]

When my December issue of Shape arrived in the mailbox well over a week ago and I saw Kelly Osbourne on the cover in a red bikini, I tossed it aside and wasn’t overly eager to tear into it as I usually am.  Depending on who is on the cover is what usually gets me [...]

I am very happy to report that my biopsies from my colonoscopy came back normal.  Apparently, I have an infection in my colon that caused bleeding and inflammation.  This is very good news since it means that it is nothing chronic.  Once I was in the recovery room and no one was saying the word Cancer [...]