Talking Myself Into Losing Again.

This week I had ‘THAT TALK” with myself.  The talk I’ve known was coming; the talk I’ve been fighting against all year.
You see, back in January when I hit my “target weight” I had worked long and hard to get there.  I had reached a point where the very words “weight loss” or “body fat [...]

A Look Back Two Years To the Beginning

You all know me.  You’ve seen me doing chin-ups, read about me doing push-ups.  You know about my love of upper body routines and boredom with abs and lower body work.  I think you know I’ve lost over 40# of fat in the past 2 years, and built some remarkable muscle during that time.
But maybe [...]

Working Toward the Pull-Up

If you read through women’s fitness blogs, there are a whole bunch of us who have stated a goal of doing a pull-up.  Some have no time table, just the aim to do it.
Me?  I have a goal: to do an unassisted pull-up on 10/16/08.
To get me to this goal I am working on the [...]

More on When it Comes To Dieting

I’ve been thinking about last post’s study and my reaction to it all weekend (ok.. I MUST get a life!) But I’ve been viewing my experience, my results through the lens of the study.
Part of the study showed that at the 12 week point, while the WWers lost weight and the fitness center’ers lost abdominal [...]

Tale of the Scale: Question and Answer

Reading Marste’s blog Take Up Your Bed and Walk, I was all ready to answer her latest question with a full affirmative reply.
Then I took a breathe and felt into the corners of my heart and the edges of my ego.  I had to stop and take several hard breathes.  Then I had come here [...]

Tale of the Scale: Week of 6/22

The weather here in NoCal has been a challenge to outside activities.  First several days with highs over 100 and still dry air.  Then dry lightening sparked wildfires.  There are over 800 fires being fought in Califronia.  The ash being pumped into the air is making it unhealthy.
The hot weather made me really lazy in [...]

Tale of the Scale: Losing Faith

I was working out yesterday – having another hard time – and I realized: I’ve lost faith in myself.
Months ago, I knew that parts of my workout were hard for me. There are things I don’t like to do (as there are in life, so there are in the gym).  I would do them anyway.  [...]

Bout Damn Time!

Finally.
Trainer Guido and I did the regular “weights and measures” thing today; I usually dread this because whatever success I’ve had on the weight loss side, I have never been able to get lean. The frustration and disappointment in Guido’s voice has always made me dislike the whole exercise. Still it’s valuable information [...]

Tale of the Scale: week of 4/13

I finally thought I’d get my Tale of Scale piece worked out early in the week. I wonder if this means that by Thursday I’ll be itching to share something else with you? (I hope so).
I noticed last week that I’m physically running outta gas during some of workouts. Let me tell [...]

Tale of the Scale: Resources

As I continue along my fitness journey, I’m finding it fun to look for information on my own. Haven’t found the exactly what I want; but I’ve found enough to learn a few things and change up my individual workouts a bit.
What would be perfect? A workout template or workout plan that more [...]