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Down 1.5 pounds and 1/2" in my waist this week. The Mamavation finalists are announced tonight, right about the time the Golden Globes start (I love award season). What a week! So productive, despite strep and flu hitting our home.  Even if I don't final, I'll try...

Kids are well, I'm back in my routine, and things are on the upswing. I didn't gain 5 pounds through stress eating and I got exercise in each day. Things are good. Now, I've got my head right where it should be, taking better care of myself and making sure I don't get...

I'm always fascinated about how things seem to happen in threes. Three celebrities die in a week to 10 days time, three people announce they are expecting, three pounds down on the scale. Three, to quote Schoolhouse Rock, seems to be a magic number. But right now,...

Here it is-- me putting myself totally out there for the world to see. I've entered a contest on Mamavation where I compete with other mommies to earn the right to participate in a seven week health challenge. The winner gets prizes and simply the pride she's lost...

Think about this. When IHOP (International House of Pancakes) has a simple and fit menu and all the meals on that are "under 600 calories" does it put it into perspective how much you're actually eating when you don't order off the simple and fit choices? I mean, when...

For many months in 2010, I spent sitting, trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Doctor visits, medications, more visits, frustration, all lead to many minutes of emotional eating. Of course it would; it really put a huge strain on my life. And every visit would...

Okay, now I've got the reason for my weight gain and constant fatigue (major sinus infection), I've started my medications and lovely twice a day sinus flushes, and I'm changing my diet so decrease the crap that got me fat in the first place. I need to rephrase that,...

For the past several months, I've been fighting myself. As I've posted before, I feel sluggish, unmotivated, and frustrated. I've not accomplished what I wanted healthwise as the numbers have slowly crept up on the scale. Then I feel more frustrated so I embark on a...

It seems my symptoms are finally subsiding and I am feeling human again. Not to say I'm without some effort to breathe, but far better than four days ago when I started my medicine. I've stayed aware of what I'm eating and haven't resorted to food for comfort this...

This time if year is feast or famine for me. I'm either doing great with all the general chaos of my life or I'm fighting sinus infections or colds (add in a vicious case of stomach flu this year) and I feel like I'm either in recovery of one thing or down for the...

Organizational expert, Peter Walsh, wrote in his book Does This Clutter Make my Butt Look Fat? that weight loss isn't simply eating less of the foods that make you fat. He reports that "the clutter around you and the clutter inside you prevents you from living the...