Food products are constantly marketed to children because companies know that the kids are often the ones influencing their parent’s purchasing decisions. McDonalds is no exception, in fact, I think they really did set the bar when it comes to enticing children to eat things that are not healthy simply because of the toys or the [...]
Our culture is lazy. We all know that. This is why get-rich quick schemes and fad diets are so popular. Promises of easy money and fast weight loss. Change your life with no actual effort on your part. It’s appealing, right? But it never works. We end up poorer and fatter. This is part of [...]
Did I get your attention? Make you wonder what I mean? Did that title make you mad? It should have. But not at me. I talk to a lot of women online and a very common avenue of discussion is their weight – they want to lose some. Many of them, more than just “some” [...]
One week ago, Trisha and I began an experiment. We both wanted to lose a little bit of weight and decided to try the Cabbage Soup Diet that promises up to 10 lbs of weight lost in 7 days. The menu was no fun. You can eat unlimited cabbage soup and each day had a [...]
…well, I did. Total. In the last year. My scale tells me 3 things each day, my current weight, the amount I’ve lost since I last weighed myself AND my total weight loss since I began my weight loss journey. I often forget about that big number in the corner – and today I noticed [...]
I don’t have much to say about day 3 yesterday. I walked through much of it cranky and sort of out of it. I really think most of it had to do with the extreme discomfort of my 30 or so mosquito bites that continue to be persistently itchy. I didn’t eat much, I mostly [...]
Day 2 was not as successful for me as day1 was. In fact, my weight was 165.2 so I gained .8 lbs. I did not cheat but I have over 30 bug bites from being outside the other night. I totally blame them. Yesterday was veggie and baked potato day. Along with my soup, I [...]
So I survived day 1 on the Cabbage Soup Diet. I think. Am I hungry? Totally. More hungry than any other morning? I don’t think so. Aside from being annoyed that my kids got up early, I feel pretty good. I do miss my coffee. Yesterday I had: 1 big bowl of cabbage soup (it [...]
Looks can be deceiving. Especially when you have a husband who knows how to work magic with seasonings. I admit that I picked the mushrooms and green peppers out of my bowl (I draw the line at fungus and I HATE green peppers), but honestly the flavor wasn’t bad when he added some garlic, mustard [...]
It stinks, but nothing you can’t mask with seasoning. I have to pee A LOT. I miss coffee. I have made a change to the Cabbage Soup Diet: day 8 = TACO BELL Onions make me cry (or maybe it’s the thought of eating cabbage). The broth doesn’t taste half bad, once I return from [...]
