The Advocate!

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”--Robert Muller Was my birthday yesterday (yes, I know, happy birthday to me) and this year, I gave myself something I'd never given me before--I forgave...

So my long time friend, Shelly, sent me this incredible email about her weight loss struggles over the years. I had to appreciate her honesty about it all and it made me feel so blessed to have friends like her, but I didn't think that at first. When I read it and she...

So, I faced the monster AKA the scale today and in six weeks, I've lost 7 pounds. Not shabby at all. A pound a week is a solid and steady weight loss and yes, I wish it were more, but it is progress. If I stay at this rate, by summer (first week in May), I'll have...

Today, I was supposed to get my six week weigh in of the 90 day challenge. At first, I had big goals that I would shed a solid 35 pounds in 12 weeks because I planned to hit it hard and finally take charge. I haven't hit it hard, but I have started, I have changed how...

When I first met my husband, I worried about my weight. So much so I didn't want to do things like ride bikes, go to workouts together or anything where I'd really put myself in a situation of embarrassment. That meant I'd automatically excluded several activities...

Small victory at Eddie Bauer–one jeans size down, five to go.

It's a holiday weekend and that means one thing--lots of high fat, fabulous, delicious not healthy things for me to eat. Growing up, holidays were always filled with lots of dip/chips, snacks, and all sorts of things on the grill to (over)fill our bellies and bring us...

So, I had it all planned out. I would drop my daughters off at their respective schools and I'd have the morning to workout and write at a coffee shop, by myself. Oh, bless you who invented preschool. Of course, it didn't work that way. My older woke me at 3am with...

After seeing Eat, Pray, Love I’ve come to realize it’s perfectly alright to enjoy eating.

I'm excited! I've not hit the exercise hard yet and I've dropped 5 pounds and 2% body fat. To think what's going to happen when I start up the marathon training tomorrow. The possibilities are huge (excuse the pun). I'm so ready to be a good 20 pounds less. I think I...

Patricia has lost her head and signed up to walk/run a half-marathon.