http://weightlossthoughts.com my personal account of losing 150 pounds Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:18:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the biggest obstacles people have is avoiding the real exercise and the real dieting.  You walk around the gym and do a few stretches, lift some weights, and maybe play in the pool if you're feeling adventurous but you don't do any heavy lifting (and I mean that ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/hit-the-treadmill/ I love the microwave pizzas.  Both the South Beach Diet and Lean Cuisine taste good to me while offering low calories, low fat, and high protein.  I think most kinds are about 330 calories and 100 calories from fat while offering 26g of protein.  Pepporoni, three meats, chicken and spinach, ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/my-favorite-quick-meal/ I do a lot of work on the computer.  In fact, I do too much work on the computer.  I'm on my summer break trying to generate some more revenue but the bad thing is my sleeping schedule is messed up and I'm working out 1/2 the time I used ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/too-much-computania/ Last night I ate a big meal after hardly getting anything to eat the whole day. Hardly the way you want to do anything, but it was done. The first thing I did this morning was do a little cardio exercise even though I was and still am ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/weight-loss-blog/ Hi Everyone, Debra hasn't checked in lately, but I wanted to keep this blog going by adding my own weight loss thoughts. Intro entry part 1: I weighed 242 when I was 16.  This was my peak.  By age 18, I had slimmed down to 215-220 and by age 21-22 I hit my ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/weight-loss-tips/ Today's weight: 279, + 1 pound from last weigh-in. Uh-oh, the scale is moving, but it's not moving in the right direction. Don't you just hate it when that happens? Of course, I know very well why it's happening. Between the Easter holidays, when chocolate eggs are everywhere, and old friends visiting ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/weekly-weigh-in-4/ I know the experts are seriously divided about whether or not diet colas really do help with weight loss. For me, however, Diet Coke has been a lifesaver. It's just sweet enough to satisfy my sugar cravings, it gives me something to do with my mouth besides stuff food in ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/diet-coke-and-other-diet-tricks/ Last week I was standing in line to get a pretzel. Yes, I know that's not on my list of diet-approved foods. So shoot me. Anyway, one of the men who was also in line said to me, "You know, those are fattening." I gestured to my more than ample ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/unsolicited-remarks/ The other night I was sitting at my computer, typing away, when I heard a loud thud followed by plaintive meowing. As everyone who is owned by cats knows, these are not good sounds. I went to investigate and found my one year old orange tabby, Alexander, stuck in the ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/stuck-in-the-washer/ Today's weight: 278, + 4 from last week (sigh). Even though I still think some of my amazing weight loss last week was water weight, I have to admit I slipped a little this week. I ate too many of the wrong foods and too much of the right ones. Oh, well. Weight loss ... http://weightlossthoughts.com/weekly-weigh-in-3/