We had a beautful salad last night with hot smoked peppered salmon (not just any hot smoked peppered salmon), very dark green and purple lettuces, vine tomatoes, red pepper and cucumber. I would normally also add fresh blueberries and toasted almonds but was out of the former and looked up the caloric content of the [...]
23Jun10
Accountability Last 10lbs 12/42
I recently read an article in O magazine about a book by Geneen Roth called Women, Food and God. The book talks about finding the reasons why we eat, not a particularly new concept. After all, practically every book about weight loss talks about finding the reason why we eat. Every time I read an [...]
5Mar10
This Week
Sorry for the hiatus – I had a day and night away and then a day of feeling very sorry for myself with a cold and, finally, a half day swallowing a small but not quite small enough camera. So, given all of that, how has my week been for weight loss? Internal motivation: I’m [...]
22Jan10
Day 1 or Just Keeping On?
In life in general I love the idea of new beginnings, blank slates, amnesties, jubilee years – grace and forgiveness . When I decide to give myself one of those in my food/body struggles, it’s hard not to think of it as a whole new beginning. Over on BCB I’ve re-invented myself a few times, [...]
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Tagged diet accountability, goal weight, Last Ten Pounds
Tagged diet accountability, goal weight, Last Ten Pounds
29Dec09
I Lied
Actually – I think I just failed but I’m not keen on failure. The feasting stopped but something more insidious took its place: gluttony, greed, simply stuffing in food for no very good reason. In fact…confession approaching…..I ate the Christmas cake that I’d packed up for my mom. Where’s the blushing smilie when you need [...]
1Dec09
The Weight List
For the past six weeks, I been weighing myself every morning and writing down the numbers. I am not doing this expecting to see loss after loss after loss. I’m doing it because I really want to get to grips with how the actually shedding of pounds works. I think I’m going to make it [...]
The morning after the Thanksgiving Feast for twelve. Me to Canadian house guest: “I’m so proud of us; we hardly drank anything.” CHG to me: “I was just thinking how I’d never seen so much alcohol consumed at one sitting!” Culture, eh? Accountability – the good things about yesterday: Out for lunch, I left a [...]
10Oct09
Planning for a feast
So far so good. The best thing is having all the food in the fridge for tonight’s festivities. Because we wanted to spend the whole day being touristy with friends, we cooked the turkey yesterday. The stuffing and pumpkin pie are made and friends are bringing everything else except the potatoes. I’ll check in tomorrow [...]