The devil is a liar and so is that scale I stepped on this morning…

February 21, 2012 by  
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What’s your relationship with your scale? Is it different now than it was when you were younger? My MIND knows the scale is not the only indicator of health, but my HEART sinks every time I get on a scale and it doesn’t tell me what I want to hear…

My $25-a-week clean eating experiment a year later

June 29, 2011 by  
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A year after test-driving my clean eating experiment I can say that I’ve adopted clean eating as a way of life. Really, it’s a return to how my parents and grandparents used to cook and eat before advertising and big business began convincing people that they had it all wrong.

Somewhere outside a cafe in Italy…

October 27, 2010 by  
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If I’m being honest with myself, being comfortable in my own skin is my biggest dream, and the first step in making any of my other big dreams a reality. With a lot of hard work and determination, maybe one day I’ll be writing my book, or my next post, outside a little cafe in Italy.

Speaking of losing weight…

October 20, 2010 by  
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On Monday I shared with you the fork in the road of my ongoing health/exercise/weight loss/fitness battles. Sadly, I’m no stranger to fad and starvation diets. But today I’m sharing a great post from Esther Kane on a better path to weight loss.

On the road again

October 18, 2010 by  
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After weeks of laying off the knee I injured in the embarrassing incident now known as The Matrix Paper Retrieval Incident (TMPRI), I finally took the old knee for a test drive. It was a short one…

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