Jennifer on October 11th, 2011

Earlier this month I was explaining how I was trying to increase the number of calories I consume in a daily basis from about 1200 to somewhere between 1500 and 1700 in an attempt to see if the additional fuel I was giving my body would help warm it in these colder months.
In that test [...]

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I have added a widget on the right side of my blog’s home page for the MyPlate tracker on the Livestrong.com website.  It’s the one I use to track my daily intake and calories burned.  I didn’t start using it until I was about 60 pounds into my weight loss journey but after getting to [...]

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Jennifer on April 28th, 2011

Today I’m really proud!  I consumed only 1055 calories, a little too low again, but ate well.  The scale is already showing me the positive reinforcement — 153 this morning — so it’s hard not to do it this way.  I’ll be back under 150 before too long.
I also exercised again today — not much [...]

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Jennifer on April 26th, 2011

Caloric intake:  1068
Exercise calories burned:  147 (I hula-hooped my butt off today using Wii Fit)
Net calories:  921
Operating at a deficit like that should insure that the pounds come back off quickly.  I’m probably throwing my body into a state of shock — going from days where I consume 3000-4500 calories to ones were I barely [...]

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Jennifer on April 25th, 2011

It’s been four weeks since I met my goal of 148 pounds and I’m not doing too well in maintenance mode.  I am having mostly “fair” days, with a few good ones and several bad ones thrown in for not so good measure.  I was up several pounds since then and back down to 149 [...]

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Jennifer on February 27th, 2011

I have always loved pizza.  It’s not my favorite dish, but always tasty.  I don’t think I’ve ever had a pizza I did not like.  Of course, there are some better than others, but historically my conventional way of thinking was that “the bigger pizza the better” and by bigger, I mean the thickness of [...]

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Jennifer on December 20th, 2010

This past weekend we had my husband’s side of the family at our house for our Christmas gathering.  I was all stressed over the meal, as I always am, but John offered to cook it, taking much of the burden off me.  Cooking is such a love/hate type of relationship for me.  I like experimenting, [...]

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Jennifer on September 17th, 2010

John and I enjoy lunch together out at a restaurant on Fridays. We only do this during the school year, and since we both work from home, it simulates a lunch out with co-workers that we would get if we worked in an office environment somewhere. It helps us to get out of [...]

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Jennifer on August 30th, 2010

Let me start with the exciting news: I lost another two pounds last week and my weight was 176 this morning. Only eight more pounds to go. I’ve changed things up quite a bit in the last few weeks and wanted to share a few observations…

I haven’t abandoned the notion completely, but [...]

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Jennifer on August 16th, 2010

Today’s Monday weigh-in was a little disappointing, although yesterday’s wardrobe was uplifting — not even taking the new bra into account!
I gained a pound, according to the scale, so this week’s official number is 181. <sigh>
However, I wore my “college jeans” yesterday and not only was there no “muffin top” spilling [...]

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