Posts Tagged ‘ Weight Loss ’

It Started with a Whoopie Pie…

06/22/2011

Actually, it started with a no-good, awful, very bad mood a week ago Friday. And the mood, which I can only imagine had something to do with hormonal imbalances, led me to one of my mother’s recipes a week ago Saturday. We’d found the recipe weeks earlier and tacked it to the refrigerator with the intention of trying it at some point. But when Saturday afternoon rolled around and the no-good, awful, very bad mood had not subsided, I knew I needed some serious comfort food to help fight the battle. Out came the Crisco—yes, you use Crisco in this recipe–the sugar, the cocoa powder, the white flour, the sour milk, more sugar…. and I began assembling and baking what would turn out to be just like my mom’s Whoopie Pies. I have to admit the process at least distracted me from the mood for a while. And then...

LARA Bars – How Did I Not Know?

12/09/2010

A couple of months ago, I discovered LARA bars. Rather, I read about them on another bloggy site and then found them in Sam’s Club and thought, “Let’s give these a try.” At Sam’s Club, they had a variety pack of LARA Bars in Apple Pie, Cherry Pie and Cashew Cookie flavors. It was risky. 18 LARA Bars for, oh, I don’t know, 16 bucks? If we didn’t like them, that would have been kind of a waste of money. But alas, they were yummy and the hubs and I both like them, so they get eaten. But here’s the cool part. I thought LARA bars only came in those flavors. Until….. a few weeks ago when I went to visit the sister in Virginia. I ate my Apple Pie and Cherry Pie bars on the way down, and didn’t have any left to go home with. They are...

Recovering From The Halloween Candy Hangover

11/02/2010

I went a little overboard with the Halloween candy this past weekend. I’m sure many of you can relate. The problem is my indulgences went a little beyond candy too. From a food perspective, I wasn’t kind to myself this weekend. Or I was a little too kind. Take your pick. Either way, the scale reflected my poor eating habits, and I felt kinda crummy too. What I can’t seem to get through my thick head is that when I’m eating well, I feel good. When I’m eating poorly, like these last couple of days, I feel lousy. Heart palpitations come back. My stomach gets distressed. I get headachy. I feel bloated and well, fat. What fun is that after all of this hard work? And then the emotional part. I feel guilty for having indulged and frustrated that I just don’t seem to have a stop valve where,...

Today Was One of Those Days… and I Didn’t Cave

10/19/2010

Today was just one of those days. Got up late and had to rush. Work was tough. Non-stop phone calls, not my favorite thing. They make me nervous. Bills to pay. Aggravation, and just a lot on my plate. My knee-jerk reaction to stressful situations is to eat, and not the good stuff. But today I resisted. I stayed on track all day long. I stayed in points. I was conscious of my fruits and veggies, sort of. It wasn’t a perfect day but it was going pretty well. I felt in control. Of my food intake anyway. Then I came home. After an aggravating day. Not knowing what I wanted to eat for dinner. Knowing I really didn’t want something healthy. And we had a flood in the basement. We’re still not sure what was leaking or what overflowed, but the source of the water seems to have...

Getting Back on Track

09/08/2010

I go through periods where I write blog posts and then don’t like the way they sound when I read them back to myself, so I toss them. I can be prone to whining. Really, I can. There have been a string of those this summer. I started thinking about why my blog posts aren’t getting to my actual blog, and I realized it’s because over the last few months, I’ve lost my focus and I didn’t really want to admit that. I’ve become a bit of a slacker from a weight watching perspective, from an exercise perspective and I guess, as might be expected, from a blogging perspective. I haven’t been visiting my Twitter friends almost at all. I’ve come to count on this community to keep me rolling along, eating right, moving and staying on top of my healthy habits. I am so inspired by the stories...

Is It Yogurt? Or Dessert In Disguise?

08/19/2010

Today, as a snack, I tried a new flavor from Yoplait’s Light Yogurt line: Black Forest Cake. I’m beginning to wonder if these little treats should really be classified as yogurt. To be honest, this one was disappointing. It tasted like cherry yogurt. Not that I mind cherry yogurt, mind you, but I was expecting something a little more chocolatey considering the name. Maybe instead of cherry pieces, they could have filled the container with chocolate cake pieces. Now that would be like Black Forest Cake, and probably couldn’t be classified as yogurt in that case. I know Greek yogurt is better for you, but I can’t wrap my tastebuds around it, even with strawberries or honey. And I’m not a fan of plain yogurt. But yogurts with names like Raspberry Cheesecake, Red Velvet Cake and Apple Turnover (Yoplait), how can you go wrong? Weight Watchers has also come...

Recovering from Vacation Eating

08/09/2010

Last week was a vacation week of sorts for me. It started as a bona fide vacation. We went away for a couple of days for a family reunion. And then my sister was in town for the rest of the week, which had me visiting her around my work schedule. I have to admit, it was not a good food week. Not a great exercise week either. What rattled me most was how easy it was to slip out of good habits and back into bad habits so quickly and easily, all because it was a vacation week. Added to the family vacation was the departure of one of my co-workers this week. Between the two events, there were lunches out, dinners out, fast food and drinking. Now, it’s not like this is the first time I’ve gone out for meals since I started eating healthier two years...

Eye on the Prize: Long Island Diva’s Half Marathon

07/27/2010

Staying on track from a food perspective has been tricky these past few months. And I plan on getting that back in order just as soon as I can. Today will be a good day. Tomorrow will be a good day. Then I’ll have VACATION. This weekend I head off to a family reunion, where I can pretty much be guaranteed I will overeat and overdrink. But it will be loads of fun, and I’m not planning to limit myself too much for the couple of days I will be away. When we get home, that will be a different story. When we get home, I will be training for a half marathon that I found in my area that just looks like awesome fun. It’s called the Diva’s Half Marathon and you are greeted at the finish line with champagne and chocolate. Now if that’s not an incentive...

Diet By Camera: a weight loss accountability tale

07/16/2010

On Monday, right after I posted about it, I started taking pictures of my food BEFORE I ate it. I’m using my iPhone to take the pictures so the quality of the photos are not very good, but I have to say the quality of the food I am eating since I started this little experiment has gone way up. When you take pictures, you want the presentation to be pretty— I’m not a great photographer to begin with, but I try— and that means colorful food. What is the most colorful food you can think of? Why fruit and veggies of course! I’ve only been doing this for two and a half days now, and I will admit I ate my dinner last night (weight watchers pizza) before remembering to take the picture, but even without the picture, I was way more conscious of what I was putting...

Is Food Photo Blogging The Next Step?

07/14/2010

Catching up on my blog reading this morning, I stopped by foodfoodbodybody, one of my favorite Weight Watchers bloggers, to see that she now has a photo food blog. She eats cool stuff. I’ve been really struggling with staying on track these days, and I’ve been allowing foods to slip into my mouth before I even think about them, so I’ve also been considering this photographing-my-food-before-eating-it thing too. I hadn’t decided if I would do this publicly or just for myself— and really I still haven’t decided if I want to share what I eat with the blogosphere— but I do think I will start snapping pictures of my food before I put it in my mouth. When I started on Weight Watchers, I was religious about tracking my food, watching portion sizes and points and making sure I was eating enough veggies and fruit. I’m not a big...

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