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 [...]

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 [...]