Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends!  We’re heading out to my mom and dad’s  for Turkey and the fixin’s later today.  Woohoo! And, looking at the  chart below (which – in spite of how drastic it looks is only .3lb weight gain! – but still….SO frustrating!) I’m glad I’m going this afternoon.  Many of my...

Get your own graph at skinnyr Ok, stayin’ steady is better than going up! I’ve spent a lot of time over the past couple of days thinking through this whole weight loss thing. Right now, it’s all about grace (I’ll talk a bit about that on Wednesday) but I’m feeling the itch to push into high gear here. There are some things I need to...

Get your own graph at skinnyr Here we are again, things are lookin’ good!  I’m quite happy with my progress considering I have so little time right now to pay that much attention.  I’m also too busy to be bored or to snack, so that helps, LOL! I continue to research effective ways to lose weight and get healthy and on our next shopping list...

A couple of weeks ago I wasn’t feeling very well.  It was dinner time, and I was “nibbly” but not too hungry.  I wanted something quick, nutritious, and satisfying.  My choice?  A plate of fresh, homemade sweet potato fries.  You can hardly beat a sweet potato for its nutritional content, and it sure doesn’t need any flavour enhancements...

In the face of all the rage about eating several small meals per day instead of three big ones, comes some interesting research on the benefits of fasting.  Still a little controversial, one of the most popular explanations is found in the e-book “Eat-Stop-Eat” by Brad Pilon, and there is another version of IF running around called “Fast-5”...