Weight Loss

Mamavation Monday – It all Starts Here

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Remember my post here? Well, I never really even started. This time is for real, I have been feeling really down and out about my weight and truly need to make a difference. I am going to go with the same structure as last time for posts that will contain: Pictures – Before and After [...]

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Mamavation Monday

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  Sorry I have been missing! I have spent the last couple days in and out of the Emergency Room because of a severe Allergic Reaction! I hope to update everyone soon on my weight loss progress – SORRY! Plus I will update you on the entire allergy story from the last week! You can [...]

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Starting my Weight Loss Journey

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Here we are….. last year I dreamed at this time I would be 70 lbs lighter. Here I am  maybe 5-10 lbs lighter. What went wrong? I think it is a bunch of things – will power, procrastination, confidence….. but it all stems from one thing – I don’t BELIEVE in myself. So, instead of [...]

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Some Weight Loss Resources to Give you a Kick Start in 2011

January 2, 2011

Tomorrow I start my weight loss journey….Again. But, this time I need to make it last. So, I want to start out by highlighting some of my favorite weight loss resources. Gina’s Weight Watcher Recipes – a great place to find yummy recipes with great taste and low points She also has another blog Skinny [...]

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Let’s Call this a Do-over

August 24, 2010

Okay, I know it is Tuesday and meme is called Mamavation Monday. OOPS! No excuses right…..completely forgot! To tell you the truth, I didn’t do so well on my goal. I went gangbusters for a day or two and then dropped off completely. So, until we get this goal under control I am not going to [...]

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It’s all about Baby Steps

August 16, 2010

Remember way back when I wrote about weight loss? Well, that journey ended last spring when my calendar and lack of will-power got in the way. Plus, it is the perfect thing to procrastinate, right? Every week I even got a tweet telling me that the mamavation sistas were looking forward to my next post [...]

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It’s Community that keeps me going…..and a little belief in myself

February 7, 2010

After the awfulness of last week it doesn’t take much to do better.  At last weeks Weight Watchers meeting we talked about Motivation. One of the big points was that in order to succeed we need to  BELIEVE in ourselves. Without that even if we lose all the weight we want, we will never SEE ourselves as that [...]

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Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes

February 3, 2010

Well, as of my post last week I didn’t know how I had done… Tuesday night I weighed in and lost 5 pounds!! YEAH!!!! I was so excited. Our  Weight Watchers meeting was about emotional eating versus eating because you were hungry. I thought I can do this – most of my eating is emotional so I [...]

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Here I go again….

January 24, 2010

I joined Weight Watchers last week. I go to the Tuesday night meeting, so I don’t know yet how well I did this last week, but it has been TOUGH! First comes the eating….or I should say lack of! Actually you can eat a lot on WW but I can only eat so many veggies [...]

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Fat Burnin’ Friday – Here it all Starts…

October 11, 2009

Here starts my new journey….and I am bringing you all along. Partially for humiliation reasons & in turn support and maybe I will even inspire someone along the way! So, I am going to use my WII Fit as my measurement tool until I can get an accurate scale. The “ghetto” scale (as my husband [...]

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