Cool Weight Loss Blog
Half of Me is a weight loss blog I ran across a few days ago. She’s also written a book, Half-Assed, about her weight loss struggles. Yep, you may have guessed it; she’s lost HALF her body weight.
Wow. I’m enjoying her blog because she’s a bit irreverent, and she’s honest about what a struggle it [...]
Habit Update, part 2
more cat pictures
I wanted to take a moment and update how my habit building for this month is going. My goal was to give up sweets while I’m at work AND to start weighing every day.
In the last two weeks, I’ve had sweets at work once. Not bad.
I’m weighing about every other day. I’m not [...]
Big Breakfast for Weight Loss
You may have already read, but doctors have found that in one study, people who ate about half their calories for breakfast lost, and kept off, more weight than people who followed a more traditional low carb diet.
Here’s the gist of it…
Participants ate around 1200 calories a day
They ate around 600 calories for breakfast
At breakfast, [...]
Habit Update
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I wanted to work on two new habits: weighing every day and avoiding sweets at work.
While I haven’t been entirely successful, I have done better lately. I’m weighing more often, but I’m still not in the habit of doing it every day.
As for the sweets, I fell off [...]
Bean soup recipe
This is a hearty soup good for summer or winter. Serve by itself or with salads or sandwiches. It goes particularly well with hush-puppies. This recipe uses dried beans, not the canned variety. It’s not much work since you use your crock pot, and it’s well worth it!
One 16 ounce pack of white beans (northern [...]
Toss your Skinny Clothes
Asithi left an interesting comment to my recent post, Declutter Yourself, about keeping skinny clothes.
While you may think about whether you still like them, if they’re in style, how old they are, etc. I think there’s a more important question to consider.
How do you feel every time you open the closet and see clothes that [...]