My European guest arrives, tall, sleek, thin, beautiful 30 year old woman. I'm early 50, short, not sleek and about as average looking as it gets. I am a bit jealous. Okay, I'm more than a bit jealous. I feel dumpy standing next to her. Okay, I am d...

On January 1, 2009, I weighed 263 lbs. Vowed that day that I would lose 100 lbs in 1 year. Now almost 10 months later I am only 3 lbs away from my goal and still have 2 months to lose it. Of course I know it will be gone before January. My main goal ...

Magazine articles everywhere covering the topic of fitness advise, Bring a friend! Bring your mom! Your boyfriend! Um, no. Lately, all my friends who go to the same gym have been coming up to me while I'm on the treadmill to chat. I don't chat at the...

’Twas the 1st of November, when all through the place, Not a chocolate remained, not even a trace. The pillowcases were emptied of both: dark and light, In hopes that the children would not miss a bite. My darlings were away at school for th...

I've used daily food and exercise journals while I was losing weight with Weight Watchers and then LA Weight Loss (may they rest in peace). But there were long periods of time when I wouldn't journal. What was it about the paper and pen that was mor...

I woke up this morning, with a massive headache, and felt like I was starving. I walked around my house and noticed a ton of boxes (from moving recently), and clutter everywhere. It dawned on me that if your house is in chaos, your mind/body is too....

When I was younger, I had this image in my head of what my life with my husband and kids would be like. I had this image of how I would be with my husband, my kids and even myself. I am not living out that image.I love my husband and we are blessed...

So I start jogging, slowly. It's been awhile. I notice my shadow, running along beside me. It's so slow and it's feet seem like they are barely getting off the ground and it certainly could loose some weight. It seems to be mocking me. I turn a c...

Okay so how is it going....well it is going... I haven't seen a budge in the scale but that is okay... my clothes are fitting differently.... I did it I invested and bought a 6 month membership to the gym... so no excuses...I bought some workout clo...

This is just something I posted on the blogging site I belong to, where members have gone into great debate on this particular subject. Thought it would be appropriate to post here as well. ----------------------------------------------------------- ...

Ok so maybe it's only a horror story for me. Last week I took my 3 and 4 year old to the doctors. Their doctor is very nice and I really do like her. She talks to me and the kids and spends time explaining everything. She comments on how pretty ...

author unknownTwas the month after Christmas, and all through the house, Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse. The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste At holiday parties had gone to my waist. When I got on the scales there arose such a numbe...

Fat Girl is known to many. Some have written books about her. She enters our lives and stirs up trouble in different ways, but we all have the same love/hate relationship with her. We love when Fat Girl comes along and blocks everyone's view while...

I have been seeing great results on the scale (it seems like I step on it daily, when I know I should not) but then something happended between last week and today, I fell off the wagon a bit. I started munching and dang it Halloween just threw me al...

Today I read an article on Yahoo Heath about soda and its effects on your body. I don't drink soda very often, maybe a can or two a month, if that. But the article said diet soda (which I NEVER drink because I think it's disgusting) contains aspartam...

Remember not to take your trip to good health too seriously. Laughter is a good calorie free feel good treat. SKINNY PEOPLE TICK ME OFF!!! Especially when they say things like, "You know sometimes I forget to eat." Now I've forgotten my ...

*UPDATE* - we've got enough users for our test, so we're no longer accepting any applications to the beta. If you didn't make it in, don't panic - we hope to submit the application for approval into the iTunes store next week, so hopefully you won't...