Weight Loss

  • Food,  Tips,  Weight Loss

    Flexible Vegetarian

    The keynote speaker at the Healthy Living Summit this past weekend was Dawn Jackson Blatner, the author of “The Flexitarian Diet“. Her presentation was very good, and even though the information wasn’t necessarily new to me, I really believe in the idea of being a “flexitarian” and how beneficial to your health eating a plant-based diet is. Dawn Jackson Blatner summarized the Flexible Vegetarian as someone who… Minimizes meat but doesn’t exclude it Wakes up with the intention to be more vegetarian Eats a diet that is pro-plans but not anti-meat Essentially, I am a flexitarian because I eliminate almost all meat from my diet. The only meat I eat…

  • Weight Loss

    If It Were Easy…

    The other night in body pump class I got overcome with emotion. Yes, I realize that sounds rather strange. But after realizing where I was, in a fitness class lifting heavy barbells with a bunch of other strong people I just couldn’t believe what I was doing! It was HARD work and I was pushing myself through the repetitions. Our instructor said during the hardest point of class, “If this was easy, everyone would do it”. I couldn’t say it better myself. I felt great after class and I really felt like I had accomplished something. I repeated the same mantra to myself over and over again last night during…

  • Baking,  Weight Loss

    Back to Square One

    Okay, its honesty time. A few days ago I wrote up a post about how awful I’ve been feeling lately about my eating habits, but I didn’t post it, it was more for myself. It pretty much said this: that I’ve noticed my some of my jeans don’t fit anymore and I’ve been feeling like I’ve gained weight, and that I’ve been too afraid to get on a scale to see if I have. This isn’t that post–but I’m going to be just as honest in this one by saying that I know I’ve gained about 10 pounds since I reached my “goal weight” (which was also my lowest weight,…