Jennifer on September 29th, 2009

Yay! My goal for September was to lose ten pounds this month and I did! That tenth pound took ten days to come off, and there was actually a pound gained in there which resulted in the need to re-lose one before taking the last one off, but I did it! Added [...]

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Jennifer on September 28th, 2009

Even on days when I don’t get to the YMCA or don’t have some other activity that qualifies as aerobic exercise, I at least get to participate in walking the family dog. Tonight, I had to take my son to a cub scout meeting (their annual popcorn fundraiser) and when I returned it was [...]

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Jennifer on September 26th, 2009

Here’s the part of dieting that is frustrating … I was pleased as pie during the first half of the month when the weight was melting off. I knew my monthly goal of losing ten pounds this month would be absolutely no problem at all, considering I had already lost 9 of the 10 [...]

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Jennifer on September 25th, 2009

Well, the YMCA opens at 5am, so when Sarah stirred this morning at 4:45, I thought that if I could get her to go back to sleep, this would be another opportunity for me to get some early morning exercise.
It worked!
I am not generally a morning person, but I did have a great workout [...]

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Jennifer on September 23rd, 2009

Well, I told my husband yesterday that I insisted that we rearrange our schedules so that I would have a regular time to exercise. I didn’t have much luck finding another mom in the neighborhood that was willing to swap child care duties with me so that we could each go to the YMCA. [...]

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Jennifer on September 22nd, 2009

Not that this is going to help me lose any weight, but my current attempt at weight loss has inspired me to design a new product for my digital scrapbooking business. “Exercise and Eat Right” is a set of image files for use in digital scrapbooking.

var addthis_pub = ‘100pounds2lose’;
var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = [...]

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Jennifer on September 21st, 2009

I haven’t posted about a recipe in a while, and I also haven’t lost my next pound in a couple of days. So, rather than fret, I thought I’d try a new recipe. I have some purple cabbage left over from a previous appetizer, so I searched for recipes using purple cabbage. [...]

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Jennifer on September 20th, 2009

A couple of days ago I posted about the idea of boosting… occasionally consuming more calories than normal while on a calorie-restricted diet to trick the mind into boosting metabolism. While this is still difficult for me to do, given that simply reducing calories has worked for me thus far, I decided to [...]

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Jennifer on September 18th, 2009

One of my blog buddies and I have been discussing boosting metabolism to trick our minds into avoiding a rut. So, if you’re doing a low-calorie diet like I am, every so often (four days?) you’re supposed to have a larger meal. See, if you stay at the lower caloric intake, your body [...]

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Jennifer on September 17th, 2009

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have decided to maintain a page on my blog that shows before and after progress photos of my weight loss journey. I intend to take an updated picture with each ten pounds lost.
Honestly, I didn’t see much change in the photos from 268 and 258 pounds, [...]

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