08-11-08 – Healthy You Challenge Update

This has been a very good week.  I stayed on my eating plan for the whole week, with the only glitch being Saturday night’s dinner, which was at a restaurant.  I overdid it a little bit, and ended up being 130 calories over my limit for the day.  But, I was 130 calories, or more, [...]

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08-10-08 – Ready for vacation

Even though I’m only going to be going on vacation for half a week, I’m ready for it, and I’m going to make the most out of it.  On Wednesday, my father and one brother are taking the bus into Philadelphia, where I’ll pick them up.  They’ll stay here Wednesday night, then on Thursday morning, [...]

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08-04-08 – Healthy You Challenge Update

This week wasn’t nearly as good as last week.  Last week my tolerance for walking had increased and I lost 4.5 pounds.  This week I cheated on my meal plan on two separate days, only lost 0.3 pounds, and my tolerance for walking decreased, mostly because I skipped walking on three different days.  Although my [...]

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08-03-08 – Ready for another week

I cheated on my eating plan again yesterday. That’s two days in one week, and I succumbed to my two biggest weaknesses, Chinese take-out on Wednesday, and an Italian Hoagie on Saturday. I’m still not sure why I did it. Since I’ve been keeping a food log and writing this blog, I’ve [...]

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07-31-08 – Right back on track

When I woke up this morning, I felt lousy.  I was expecting it after last night’s take-out Chinese binge.  I had a real food hangover.  You know how you feel the morning after overeating?  It’s almost like a real hangover.  I gradually felt better throughout the day, and I made it out for an evening [...]

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07-29-08 – Every day’s a little battle

I sometimes feel as though I’m at war with myself.  I don’t mean that in a bad way; I mean it to be positive.  The only person who can work on my health and weight issues is me.  The only person who can make decisions about what I’m going to do or eat is me.  [...]

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07-28-08 – Healthy You Challenge Update

I had a mostly good week this week.  I cheated on my eating plan on Friday night and ended up consuming over 2600 calories, way over my 2000-calorie limit.  But, I got right back on the bandwagon Saturday morning, and I’ve been good ever since.  The really good news this week is I lost 4.5 [...]

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07-27-08 – Another hill climb tonight

I made it all the way up the hill again on my walk tonight.  That’s the third time in the past week that I’ve made it to the top, and it’s gotten just a little bit easier each time.  I’m going to try and make it to the top five times in the coming week.
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07-24-08 – Made it up the hill tonight

“What has passed and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for.”
BIG ELK, MAHA CHIEF, from Commonplace Book of Prose, 1830
I’m reading a book entitled Forgive for Good by Dr. Fred Luskin, and that quote leads off one of the chapters.  I like it because it means you cannot control the past; it’s already gone.  [...]

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07-23-08 – A close call

Today has been one of those days in which I feel hungry constantly.  I don’t know why, but I’ve felt hungry all day long.  I keep some whole-grain pretzel sticks in individual snack bags in one of my desk drawers at work.  This afternoon, I came close to attacking that stash for all it was [...]

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