My Happy List!

Mindful September - My Happy List

Today’s to-do for Mindful September is to write a list of things that make you happy. Sometimes we all need a little reminder, right? I now present to you {in no particular order}… my happy list!  mountains sunshine my kids and foster baby my husband my family trees coffee candy photography margaritas chickens the bunkhouse [...]

June Tune-Up – Week One!

erin-me

Wow, it has been a loooooong time since I wrote here. *Blowing off the dust* I am excited for this challenge! I have an awesome partner *hey, Misty!* and am off to a good start! I have started using MyFitnessPal to log my foods and it is a really great app. One of my favorites! [...]

Shrink Yo’Self in 2012 – Finale!

Wow, that challenge just FLEW by. I started off great, slacked off a bit in the middle, and finished strong. Today’s weigh-in was 218… which I believe is 11.8 lbs lighter than when I started. Not too bad! I haven’t been working out like I should, but I have taken some huge leaps with my [...]

true confessions: melissa, january 10

On 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 instruction [...]

coming clean… in need of a major life overhaul.

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 to do [...]

shrinkvivor, week 1 {go green}

It’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 Death-by-Barb [...]

getting back into the routine

It’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 all [...]

by inches and bounds

Things 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 the [...]

reality check {true confessions}

I 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 days [...]

melissa, checking in {july 6}

If you read my confessions yesterday -EEK- you would know that I was not expecting much out of today’s weigh-in. I will say, however, that I did have an awesome day yesterday. No junk. No bread. In control. It felt sooooooooo good. Amazing what that one little day can do. Can you imagine if I [...]