The following blog post is a personal introspective from my weight loss files and I try to do better by my body as well as my soul by eating healthier and exercising. Each week I will discuss my roadblocks and setbacks, triumphs and breakthroughs, and other random items as it ...

Week One As you may have read over the last few days on my blog and in my tweets, I am starting a new diet and healthy eating plan. I don't have many problems losing weight when I diet, but I do have problems sticking to a good regimen. I start ...

...and I was doing so good. This spring, I lost almost 30 lbs by watching what I ate and exercising. I felt better and had more energy. I was sharper on my toes and slept better at night. All was going well. And then summer crept up and I gained it ...

Oh, it seems that my weight loss journey will never end. I was off and running beginning in March and lost a total of 21 pounds. I gained back one pound of that and now I am at a standstill aka, a plateau. What's a girl to do? I will admit ...

...or Weight Watchers? Or Nurti System? The past ten years have seen such celebs as Queen Latifah, Whoopi Goldberg, Marie Osmond, Valerie Bertinelli, Phylicia Rashad,Kirstie Alley, and others jump on the diet plan bandwagon. Most recently, singer Jennifer Hudson and actress Sara Rue have joined Team Weight Watchers and Team ...

I have been on a health kick lately and much of that has to do with my weight loss. The more I lose, the more I want to get into better shape and improve my health for the long term. Since I have been shedding the pounds, I have been ...

I cannot believe it has been nine weeks since I began my weight loss plan, but it has. During these nine weeks, I have cut soda completely from my diet and I have been watching my food intake, staying away from fried and fatty foods, and getting some exercising in ...

As many of you know, I have been blogging about my weight loss journey. I am now on week seven and I've lost about sixteen pounds total. Most of the weight I have lost thus far I believe is water weight, but I am also losing inches which is making ...

This is a sensitive topic for me, but I thought it would do me some good to get it out in the open and discuss it via video log. I have been losing and gaining the same 25-40 lbs for the last 10 years and it's time for me to ...

I cannot believe I am a month deep into my weight loss regimen. It has been a hard journey thus far but so far, the results have been positive. Let me let you in on what I've been doing: The first week I spent weaning myself off of soda. I didn't ...

In the continuation of my weight loss series (for more on my weight loss efforts, click HERE), I wanted to discuss an awful, painful truth. It is cheaper to be fat than it is to be skinny. Why is that? In my quest to shed pounds recently, I have been doing ...

A few days ago, I stepped on the scale and almost had a heart attack. I have packed on way too many pounds this winter and the buck must stop here. No longer will I be talking about wanting to make a change, I WILL make a change! I am by ...

The two biggest eating holidays are now over and I am now concentrating on getting back to living a healthier lifestyle. Earlier this year, after cutting soda completely out of my diet and and focusing on healthy foods, low carbs, and no fried foods, I lost almost 25 lbs. Of ...

Every year for as long as I can remember, I've made a list of New Year's Resolutions. Most of the time, the resolutions usually involve my weight. Lose 10 lbs, eat more healthy, stop drinking soda, etc. etc. And usually I am good with these resolutions until about March or ...

I've been losing these last twenty pounds since after I had my daughter in 2004. While pregnant with her, I ballooned to 230 lbs due to having gestational diabetes. I was huge! Within weeks of having her, I lost 50 lbs, but the remaining weight has been a chore to ...