I just stink at moderating myself.  I don’t know why.  I can moderate the kids, moderate the bills, moderate other people, but when it comes to moderating myself, I am awful.  I have dieted all of my life, but my greatest successes have been when I have let other people tell me what to eat.  Why is this??  I just don’t get it at all.  So I have had my eye on eDiets most recently.  I have watched this company for quite a few years now, and they are always so tempting to join, but really over the last year, they have gotten almost irresistible.  They have every diet known to man just about, and they are always up on the current dieting “trends” – isn’t that sad that... [Read more]

So pre-fashion week wasn’t so inspiring to me, but a few good things happened to me during and after that have put me in a much better frame of reference and feeling more positive. JavaScript is not enabled or supported on your browser 1. I have cut WAY back on my smoking. I was planning on quitting totally while in NYC, but I didn’t. What I did do was successfully wean myself from a pack and a half down to <10 cigs a day. And I think I can wean off further. Say a prayer. 2. I have been exercising. One good thing about life in the big city is that you walk a lot. I didn’t walk as much as I had hoped to, but certainly more than I do in a day here. I am very sedentary, and walk to the barn and to the kitchen and... [Read more]

1.  Work entirely too much.  Obsessively, even. 2.  Feel guilty for not spending proper time with the kids, so when you’re not obsessively working, you are taking care of them. 3.  *Forget* to take care of you. 4.  Buy quick and easy snacks and meals.  They are always great for you. 5.  Don’t plan ahead for success.  Fate will get you there. 6.  Stay up late every night and get up early every morning.  The more you are awake the more calories you are burning, right? 7.  Procrastinate – don’t go shopping when you run out of healthy food.  Eat the crap that’s been hanging out in your cupboards.  After all, people are starving in China.  8. ... [Read more]

Well, so, this is every woman’s favorite week of the month.  Not only are you tired and just a wee bit cranky, you want to eat everything in the house.  Or in my case, I worked too hard and was too lazy to cook all week, so we ate out a couple of times.  I also let my vitamin regime go to pot.  What is wrong with me?  I am heading to Fashion Week in a couple of weeks, you would think that running around with a bunch of twig people would be inspirational, but no, I just think of every fashionista I know of that isn’t Twiggy and figure I’ll be ok.  They won’t hate me cause I’m fat – will they?  *sigh*  Noel is making me mildly wish I were ill (KIDDING – I know this... [Read more]

Well, I have had a decent first week. My goals for this week were to get back in the habit of taking my vitamins and other medications (glucophage, chantix), to get a little exercise, and to eat right. Well, almost 2 out of three ain’t bad, is it? Yeah, kinda bad. I did wonderfully in the medication/veeta-vita-vegemin department. Not quite a habit yet, but at least I am remembering and getting my butt out of bed to take them when I forget. 21 more days to go til it becomes a habit. Eating this week was fairly good, practiced great portion control – until last night, at Project Runway time, I had a Chips Ahoy craving that just wouldnt go away (its coming up on that craving time of the month), and I succombed. Boo. Not great... [Read more]