As I've found out, this weight loss journey is not always going to be full of upward momentum and big successes. There's going to be both ups and downs, and the rough patches are all just part of the experience. I've been dealing with one of those rough patches lately, as my weight loss has …
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Adventures in Clean Eating
I talk a lot about treating yourself and making sure that you aren't being too hard on yourself, especially in terms of healthy lifestyles. I will gladly have an ice cream now and then or indulge in french fries when I want to. While I still plan on keeping an open mind about food, I …
My Thoughts on Body Shaming
Today I wanted to talk about something that I have been thinking about for a while: body shaming. I've mentioned this a little bit in other posts, but I do think it's an important issue that deserves its own post. While we as a society do need to work on being kinder to each other …
Reaching Another Milestone: 40 Pounds Lost!
As you can probably guess from today's post title, I have reached another milestone on my weight loss journey and officially lost 40 pounds! If you've been following my blog for a while, you may remember that I had lost 30 pounds back in May. Let me just say that these 10 pounds that I …
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Why I’ve Stopped Calorie-Counting
If you have been following my blog for a while, you might remember that I've been using MyFitnessPal to count my daily calories and record how many calories I burn during workouts. When I first started this weight loss journey, I started seeing a nutritionist, and we worked together to figure out how many calories …
Why I Don’t Like the Phrase “Cheat Meal”
I hope everyone is having an amazing, relaxing Sunday! For today's post, I wanted to talk about something that I've been thinking about for a while. I think at this point, everyone has heard of cheat meals and going off your diet for a day to eat whatever you want. Every weekend my Explore page …
Running Update #9 + Exploring Smoothies
I hope everyone is having a great Monday! I thought I would start out the week with another running update. In the last week, I stuck with running 10 minutes, walking 5 minutes, and running 10 minutes again instead of increasing the running time. Even though I think I was doing pretty well with running …
Running Update #8
Remember that whole overindulging thing I was talking about in my last post? I definitely overindulged during the Memorial Day weekend and didn't track what I was eating quite as carefully as I should have (including a greasy Chinese meal one night,) but that's life! In between all of the overindulgences, I have still managed …
What to Do If You’ve Overindulged
When you start getting serious about wanting to lose weight, there are so many obstacles that can be in your way. Whether it's not having the energy to work out every day, or having trouble resisting that piece of chocolate cake, it's no wonder that we all have trouble losing weight! Even with the best …
My Favorite Healthy Snacks + Running Update #6
I hope everyone is having a great start to their weeks! Today I decided to combine my running update with another post because, yup you guessed it, I was slacking again on my running program in the last week. I figured since I don't have a whole bunch of progress to share, it would be …
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