I know what I need to do in order to lose weight. (I should, after so many years of having it drilled into my head.) Make the right food choices and move more.
Distilled to that pure form, nothing could be simpler. So why is it so darn difficult to follow through?
I know I need to […]
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I think it was Scottish poet Robert Burns who first wrote “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry” … or something to that effect. (It was in some weird Scottish dialect, if I recall.)
That’s what happened to me Tuesday. You may recall I planned to stick to Core all week. Unfortunately, life […]
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I spent the weekend coasting off the WW plan. I was eating crap and not getting in enough water. I wasn’t surprised when the scale showed it at my Monday weigh-in — up 2.6 pounds.
I might not have been surprised but I was disappointed — in myself. It means I’ve been hovering right around […]
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… Unfortunately, most of them are bad.
With the help of Weight Watchers, I’m trying to replace the bad habits with good ones, but it’s not easy. Sometimes, I backtrack.
That happened a couple of times in the last couple of days. Tuesday night, after work, I did a bad, bad thing: I stopped at the drive-thru […]
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I got up this morning and ate a Core-friendly breakfast of Shredded Wheat bites, skim milk and a banana. Then I went to the gym and spent 20 minutes on the treadmill and 30 in a weights class. Next, it was off to the bank, and then to the office for a few minutes. (Oh, […]
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