Zippygirl Runs

I’m really enjoying SparkPeople, the free weight loss site.  I’m LibrarianJen on there.  This is the site I was hoping for when I signed up for eDiets (the site of the many duplicating ingredients and cheese and raspberries on everything.)  I’ve only been on Spark People for a few days, but I’m already addicted to [...]

Since I’m doing about as well as can be expected with the exercise (working to fit it into family life, especially, and to make it fun,) it’s now time to look at the food again.  I hate bouncing between plans like this.  I have made a lot of progress this year, thanks to the classes [...]

This week, I’m doing the eDiets low glycemic plan.  It seems to be very heavy on the cheese, and raspberries, which I’m allergic to, so I’m going to substitute frozen blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries whereever it calls for raspberries.  Depending on how it goes, I might stick with it more than one week, or I [...]

I’m recommitting myself to following my eDiets nutrition plan.  I’m currently using the generic eDiets plan, which is basically a reduced-calorie “healthy eating” plan.  The challenge I’m doing rewards players with points for healthy behavior (weight loss is secondary,) so I will get 10 points a day just for following the plan! In coming weeks, [...]

Down a half a pound.  That’s good. I wanted to post yesterday about how much I love my Sunday routine. I swim laps and then  tread water and then sit in the sauna.  This week I got to 13 laps. I realized I’ve been better at carving out time to exercise.  Sundays I swim, Monday [...]

196.6.  Still a net gain from when I started eDiets, but a good trend.  I could live with losing two pounds a week.  I’m not even really using eDiets, although I try to remember to print out the plan so I don’t get caught without meal ideas. Intuitive eating seems to be working.  I ate [...]

Weigh-in: 195.6, up 1.6 from when I started the plan.  The plan was pretty easy to stick with throughout the week, but I dropped it on the weekend.  It’s possible the gain is from the spaghetti I ate last night and the working out that I did (muscles filling with water blah blah blah.)  I’m giving [...]

In the category of bad idea:  go to the Y and do 50 minutes of cardio.  Then find out it’s your school’s ice skating night at the rink and skate for an hour and a half.  Then go to your already scheduled bellydance class.  I am exhausted!  I was so tired last night that I didn’t even [...]

I just joined eDiets.  I’m going to compare it to WeightWatchers online, to which I still subscribe, even though I’m thinking of canceling.  I hope eDiets has a better selection of healthy recipes. So far, eDiets has really annoyed me with about 20 “special offer” screens to get through before finalizing my order.  If this [...]