September 2010 Blog Posts

I've been doing pretty good this week--making good choices, drinking lots of water and working out every day. I did lose a pound or so and plan on losing another next week! Sometimes, though, I wonder, when I work SO hard at this, why won't the weight come off just a LITTLE faster? Some people seem to have the weight just melting off while I struggle for every pound! I never was a yo-yo dieter. I actually never really tried to lose weight before I started on this journey a few years ago. This losing weight thing kind of started by accident--I...

Well. it's a new week, thank goodness! I am so tired of LIFE derailing my efforts--or rather, of me allowing life to derail my efforts! Food choices were not good for at least 4 days due to not having a working refrigerator. We HAD to use up what was in there--it's just that a lot of it was not stuff I had bought and was not foods I would normally eat. Lots of processed foods that the others buy. I did go shopping yesterday after getting the 'new' fridge cleaned and running so things should improve now. I have also slacked on...

So, here are my goals for September: 1. Stick to about 1800 calories a day. With my lifestyle that should give me a steady 1/2 pound loss every week. Not a lot but better than I've been doing lately! I've been doing well with my food choices so far. Staying within my calories and eating mostly unprocessed foods. 2. Exercise at least 60 minutes a day. It can be broken up but it needs to be 60 minutes TOTAL. This should add a bit to my weight loss every week, too. Keeping to this, too, though I have decided that...

I haven't written in my blog for a LONG time! I admit, I am not the blogging type. I try but there's just so much time to do all I need to do. I want to try to post something at least once a week. So, here are my goals for September: 1. Stick to about 1800 calories a day. With my lifestyle that should give me a steady 1/2 pound loss every week. Not a lot but better than I've been doing lately! 2. Exercise at least 60 minutes a day. It can be broken up but it needs to be 60...