Diet Tips

Barbara on April 30th, 2010

Another 1.5 pounds! Of course, it was the same 1.5 pounds that I put on last week, but it doesn’t matter. I’m taking it as a great victory! In the next few weeks, I plan to focus on one “bad habit” that I haven’t been able to defeat — eating too fast. I gobble my [...]

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Barbara on April 16th, 2010

Another week … another two pounds! I’m absolutely thrilled that I’m reaching the 20-pound loss mark. What an incentive to keep going! As I’ve mentioned, when I become involved in a topic, I tend to accumulate a lot of books on the subject that get at least a scan, if not a full read. The [...]

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Barbara on April 9th, 2010

Before I begin, I want to mention that instead of weighing in and posting my entries on Mondays, I’ll be doing both on Fridays from now on. The reason? The day before my “official” weekly weigh-in, I always try to be extra careful with my eating (oh, come now … you do the same thing!) [...]

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Barbara on March 29th, 2010

Last week, I explained how I’d taken a week off from counting calories and writing down everything I ate. As I told you then, the experiment was a failure — I didn’t lose anything that week. Well, that “experiment” was the worst mistake I’ve made! It took me nearly two months to get into the [...]

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Barbara on March 22nd, 2010

I experimented with taking a week off from focusing on my diet this past week. While it didn’t work very well, it taught me several things. And, no, I didn’t give myself permission to binge for seven days but I did decide not to measure everything I ate and record the calories in each biteful, [...]

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