The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.  ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970
“You think too much.”
That’s what I heard from my husband last night while I was talking to him about my fitness woes.  I was telling him that I have all these lofty fitness goals but I condemn myself to failure [...]

Here we are on the cusp of a new decade.  Can you believe it?  A NEW DECADE!  It seems like only yesterday that we were all heading for our underground bunkers convinced the world was going to end once we hit 2000.
Personally, I’ve seen a lot of changes in the last ten years.  Marriage, kids, [...]

Everyone, get your bullet points ready!  It’s True Confessions Monday…the Monday after the end of a challenge.  The Monday before a new challenge begins. Do you have anything you need to absolve yourself of?  I know I do!

Christmas is FOUR DAYS AWAY!  That can only mean one thing…baking cookies.  Lovely, peanut buttery, copious amounts of [...]

Let’s just start off with a bang, shall we?

Don’t tell anybody, but I’m a little over my computer right now.  I can’t figure out why, but I don’t want to read blogs, write blogs, or comment on blogs. Facebook is making me feel left behind and Twitter…well…I can’t catch up.  It’s a conundrum, because you [...]

So much of what we all focus on when trying to lose weight are numbers:

Pounds lost and gained
Calories/Points eaten
Inches lost
Minutes (Hours?) of exercise
Clothes sizes

But what about another set of numbers?  When’s the last time you had your cholesterol and triglycerides checked?
My dad was overweight for most of his adult life.  It took a doctor to [...]

I hate shoes.
More accurately, I hate shoe shopping.
My feet are big.  They are an odd size that isn’t normally carried on store shelves. I also have very narrow heels.
When I started taking up running (which was actually several years ago…this is just the latest incarnation), I knew that I needed to get some halfway decent [...]

Another week down in the Shrink For Good Challenge!
Are you keeping up with the goals you’ve set for yourself?  Are you seeing the results you hoped for? If you are doing the EA Sports Active Challenge, are you keeping up with your workouts?  Is the scale headed in the right direction?
Go jump on the scale, [...]

So, I’m training for this 5k.
Again.
I already completed one earlier this summer, but I wasn’t very satisfied with my time.  So I decided to sign up for another one.
This weight loss/exercise thing is so hard (whine).
Anyway, I’m training for a 5k on September 12th and I have found myself in a very, VERY dire situation.
I [...]

So, I’m sitting here trying to think of some wonderful  post about some wonderful topic that will make you all want to shout from the rooftops that Thea is an amazing writer and is an inspiration to all those who have, will, want to, have thought about or know someone who wants to lose those [...]

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence – which, I believe, does make the woman. Mary Kay Ash (1915 – )

What’s in your closet? Right now. Need to check? Go ahead, we’ll wait…

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Did you look? Cool. So what’s in your closet? Did you [...]

Change your thoughts and you change your world. -Norman Vincent Peale

I knew this guy once. He was overweight and suffered from some minor health issues. He went on a diet and lost a lot of the weight. Then he stopped dieting and gained the weight back. Several years passed and the minor health issues [...]

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.”
O.K.  So we’ve probably all been there at one time or another in our lives…you are doing everything right. You’re eating the right foods, drinking your water, exercising, but it seems like no matter what [...]

One of my biggest issues is exercise.  I’m not an active person, I never really have been.  I make an effort, but I just really don’t like to exercise.
Go, me!
Realizing that I need to do SOMETHING, I wear a pedometer every day.  It really is motivating to see exactly how many steps I am taking [...]

I like sugar. I like sugar a lot.
I like it on my cereal.  I like it on my oatmeal. I like it in my coffee. I like it baked into stuff. I like it not baked into stuff.
What I don’t like is how it makes me want to eat more. How one cookie becomes 3.  [...]

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.  The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.  ~Author Unknown
First off, let me say CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who posted their numbers on Wednesday. Whether you gained, lost, or maintained, it takes a lot of courage to tell the world (or at [...]