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17 Mar, 2009

Take Your EYES off the PIES!

Posted by: delitaagain In: Lessons Learned

From “Today’s Cartoon by Randy Glasbergen”, displayed
with special permission. For many more cartoons, please visit Randy’s
site @ www.glasbergen.com
What have you learned to avoid? For me, it is foods with aspartame or wheat, or too much sugar — they all trigger cravings and my willpower goes right out the window, for days! It takes about 5 days clean [...]

15 Mar, 2009

Weigh-in: Week 31, Taking Territory!

Posted by: delitaagain In: Weigh-In!!

This week posted a 0.8 loss, for which I am very grateful. It has taken me 3 weeks to lose 2 pounds, and I’ve pretty much been fighting for every inch of territory taken back.
That is a total loss of 68 pounds with 82 pounds to go. Weight loss since beginning again in August ‘08 [...]

13 Mar, 2009

What Are My Eyes On?

Posted by: delitaagain In: Lessons Learned

My (longest standing) diet buddy Sandi is back at it again (YAY Sandi!) and has got me thinking about what helps me keep going.
I know it is not the idea of my target weight, although that is an exciting number to me! And, it is not that I am desperate to look good to catch [...]

12 Mar, 2009

Food Faux Pas

Posted by: delitaagain In: Lessons Learned

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I hafta tell ya… I’ve been doing pretty good on food since joining Eileen’s Challenge. But tonight I forfeited my gold star for a taste of maybe not roses, but still, it was sweet. Okay, okay, no details. But it was nice, not even great, just nice.
I really do believe [...]

09 Mar, 2009

Weigh-in: Week 30!!!

Posted by: delitaagain In: Weigh-In!!

I’m so glad to have made it this long still blogging, still weighing in, still paying attention to eating and doing a much better job at eating right, back again on excercise
The bad news is, in the last month my weight loss has really slowed and this week it was all I could do to [...]



  • Sandi DeFalco: Hello Delita!!!! I was going through my favorites list and noticed Forums, and lo and behold, there you were! I'll assume you are doing good, haven't
  • tjnorth: I spent some time with my sister this summer and she lost about 100 pounds (she won't really say) three years ago by eating the good stuff (veggies,
  • brseay: Wow, what incredible pictures! So good to see you pop up here. Many of the regulars have disappeared so it's nice to see a friendly face. My ch