true confessions: melissa, january 10

Pin itOn Saturday, I had almost a full week of following my eating plan to perfection. I was on a roll. In a groove. Not wanting to shove every carb in sight in my face. The weekend was packed… a foster care class, which included getting home late on Friday night and 10 hours of [...]

Shrink Yo’Self… off with a bang!

me-cold

Pin it{my fitness goals are here & my life goals are here} Oh, yes I am. I actually started my eating plan on Monday, the 2nd, for the fact that I anticipated having hangover munchies on New Year’s Day. I have had 2 perfect days with very little sugar or carbs. I’m quite proud of [...]

coming clean… in need of a major life overhaul.

Pin it Hello, dear weight loss blog. How I’ve missed you. I have been avoiding you, in case you couldn’t tell! It’s January 1st, 2012. A new year, a new chance. A lot of people think resolutions are ridiculous, but I view them as hope and change. I love resolutions and this year, I plan [...]

it takes a village.

Pin it This boy. This little, blue-eyed boy with a BIG heart. He steals MY heart. His wish this Christmas is not for an iPod, Pokemon, or Legos. The one item on his Christmas list? WATER. To raise $10,000 for clean, safe water for 500 people. It takes a village, friends. Can you help? Will [...]

Guilty Pleasures {Melissa}

Pin itIt’s been a almost two months since I last posted here, so obviously my guilty pleasure is NOT blogging. Maybe it’s my obsession with magazines? I get so excited when a new issue of Real Simple or US Weekly arrives in my mailbox. For real. Or possibly my addiction to Pinterest? I could admit [...]

Run the ‘Hood 5K:: The Anderson Family!

Pin it We finally got to our 5K yesterday after the kids got out of school! I know, I know, I organized the freakin’ race and I can’t even get it done on the actual race day? Fail! Turns out we were visiting my husband at the rig, you know, in the middle-of-nowhere. Which is [...]

shrinkvivor, week 1 {go green}

Pin itIt’s been a few weeks (or months?) since I checked in here! Time has been flying! We are now a week into the Shrinkvivor challenge! {go Green!} I am down 0.8 lbs this week… not fantastic, but a loss is a loss! I started back at the gym finally and am back to my [...]

getting back into the routine

Pin itIt’s confession time!! This is going to be somewhat boring this week, but I am pretty sure that is a good thing when it comes to my confessions lately. We are going through some big changes around our household. It’s going to be completely different this year, and it will take some adjusting for [...]

by inches and bounds

Pin itThings are not going at all as planned. I was supposed to be all SUCCESS! MOTIVATE! LOVE LIFE! this challenge, and I am just not any of those things. Good intentions, little follow-through. The thing is, weight loss and fitness are all in the follow-through. Which leaves me with the scale creeping up and [...]

reality check {true confessions}

Pin itI had a moment of clarity last week, after many weeks of being sad, lost, and not caring. I knew that I had to do something, and I took the first step and got my ass back on South Beach. The first three days were great, but then came the weekend camping trip. Two [...]