November 2008

Removed the Forums

November 30, 2008

Just a quick note to say I have removed my forums from this blog. I love the idea of forums as a way to get people talking to each other and being supportive, but they take far more work than I had imagined and frankly I simply had been ignoring them for some time. The [...]

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Thanksgiving is Black Thursday for Dieters

November 27, 2008

photo credit: *clairity* As you are no doubt aware the day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday, which marks the start of the traditional Christmas shopping season (did you know about Cyber Monday, though?). Black Friday is a day to revel in all-out consumerism with many people camping out at night to stake their place [...]

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Weight Loss Blogger Interview - Matt Keeling

November 26, 2008

Do you get motivated reading about the success of others? I know I do, which is why I’ll be interviewing some great weight loss successes and sharing their stories here. Today’s interview is with Matt Keeling who blogs at Confessions of a Guy at Weight Watchers: Weight Loss Questions Matt, can you tell us a [...]

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Two Weeks Under - Book Review

November 25, 2008

This is my first book review for a fiction book on this weight loss blog and it fits in well because weight and more specifically the vanity issues surrounding wanting to be a lower weight is the key theme in Two Weeks Under by Rivka Tadjer. First, I will remind you that while I was [...]

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Five Tips To Make Your Fat Loss Program More Livable

November 24, 2008

This is a guest post by Shannon Clark from The Workout Insider. When it comes to fat loss programs, one of the biggest reasons why people fail in their efforts at weight loss is simply because they can’t seem to stick with the program. Either cravings start creeping in, their busy schedule crowds out their [...]

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Catching Up

November 19, 2008

Once I realized I wasn’t going to hit my goal of posting every day this month I kind of drifted off on to other things, but that doesn’t mean I’m still not here. I’ve got a bunch of things in the fire so I thought I’d just do a brain dump of everything here and [...]

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4 Tips For Getting PR People To Send You Free Stuff

November 15, 2008

You probably have noticed that I occasionally get free products that I review and/or give away in contests (how cool was that giving away a free bike?!). Steve from Weight Loss Weapons did, and he asked me: You seem to get free stuff to review all the time. Do they contact you or are you [...]

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Motivated by Music

November 14, 2008

Well so much for NaBloPoMo! My best intentions of posting every day this month went up in flames on Wednesday, then I had a decided lack of motivation yesterday after knowing that I won’t be hitting what I had hoped was a simple goal - writing every day this month. I also have not run [...]

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Knocking Out Some Cardio

November 11, 2008

I did something today that I am pretty proud of. It isn’t on the scale of the two mile run I did back in January, but considering where I have been lately in terms of exercising, it was pretty good. I’m back on the couch to 5k training program, starting back at week 4. Last [...]

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