MIMOSAS FOR ONE

pounds lost : 8.5 so last week was so/so. i knew i hadn't been as strict as I had been the first week, but i still managed to drop another 3.5 pounds. As this week started, things were looking good. i went to the gym on monday night, and i really wanted to go another 2 times during the week. that never happened. let me start by saying that i like to go to the gym at night, generally 1 hour before they close. There are less people there and the machines i want to use are open. this also happens to be when i am the most busy socially. laziness + offers from friends to hang + radio station meetings and nighttime show = 1 trip to the gym per week X( DOH! Then there was the food. i went to the boardwalk on tuesday. it was $.75 night, and for dinner i had a corndog and fries, for dessert, cotton candy and a chocolate dipped soft serve ice cream cone. We did walk around a lot, so at least I burned some of it off. maybe. on thursday, a co workers b-day brought pizza and cake. really yummy ...

7.17.08 source: google quote garden Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit. ~Jonathan Winters Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter." ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I love mankind - it's people I can't stand. ~Charles M. Schulz, Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~Jim Carrey Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. ~From the television show The Wonder Years This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of d...

weight loss to date : 5lbs so week 1 went pretty well. I can already tell I feel better, I have not had any pain in my leg, and my ankels have stayed pretty well unswollen. I shopped for the week at Trader Joes, and some of my favorite finds were the 6 pack of mini baguettes, 3 layer hummus dip (original, cilantro, spicy), reduced guilt sea salt pita chips, organic stawberries, multigrain toaster waffles, tropical and strawberry frozen fruit juice bars, pear and champagne vinegarette dressing, fat free feta cheese, and the ham and gurrere with carmelized onions thin crust pizza. I told the meeting leader at WW as I weighed in that I wasn't as dilligent as I was the first week of my first time there last year. I faced some challenges. Friday there was a pizza / cake party at work. The pizza turned out to be pretty gross, so I only had 1 1/2 small pieces. However, the cake was to die for, so I had to have a slice. I requested it be small, which it was, but still it wasn't that sm...

in an effort to keep myself motivated and in control of my latest weight loss endeavor, I've decided that I'm going to blog about it. In thinking about the bad habits that have directly contributed to me putting back on the 35 pounds I lost last year, I safely say can say that I have: 1. portion control issues 2. a fast food addiction 3. an overwhelming urge to snack at night 4. equal weaknesses for cheese, ice cream, bacon, and donuts 5. a strong sense of denial when it comes to alcohol's contribution to sed weight gain. I would like to say that "this time things are going to be different" or " I feel more motivated than ever before", but at this point, I'm still a little skeptical. However, the fact remains that I am not healthy. I'm getting older, I have been having constant pain in my right leg, and my ankles swell on an almost daily basis. I have been overweight most of my life, but I have been active. This is the first time where I feel ...