As a southerner, folks tend to assume I learned to cook growing up in the family kitchen under the watchful eye of mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers wielding cast iron skillets seasoned with pure lard. While I do live and die by my Lodge; I do not wield pure lard and I did not learn…
Category: Life as I Know It
Confession: It’s Good For the Soul
I’ve dreaded writing this post but the time has come to break the news even if its not good news. I did not accomplish my weight loss goals as I had hoped to earlier this year. In fact, I did not even come close. I guess the good news is that I did not gain…
Walters, Party of Three
We just returned from an extra long road trip from DC to Memphis. On our way home we stopped in Strawberry Plains for Cracker Barrel. Normally we would have hit a Chick-Fil-A Drive through and kept on truckin but when you have a baby in tow stopping at a fine establishment like the Cracker Barrel…
Lessons Learned
Well its been yet another month and I honestly have nothing good or motivating to report about my little diet experiment except for one thing: It was a bad idea! I wanted to try a different eating plan each month to see which ones worked the best. I started with South Beach, then I tried…
What’s Going On??
My blogging was quiet in April. Here is what you missed: Zone diet = royal failure. Short story is that the Zone Diet requires more discipline than I can endure right now so I do not recommend anyone use Zone to start a diet, maybe to maintain a weight or explore new strategies for healthy…
Focus
Discipline requires FOCUS. Focus requires DISCIPLINE. You cannot have one without the other. fo·cus/ˈfōkəs/ Noun: The center of interest or activity. Maximum clarity Converge on a central point Bring into alignment Attention to detail Adjustment Fixed Attention Concentrating interest Point of origin The principal site The part of prominence, usually for emphasis or contrast. Clear…
Conversations with Grace
O to Grace how great a debtor, daily I’m constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee. I love the hymn Come Thy Fount of Every Blessing. Each line of every verse is so perfectly scripted to speak to my heart in specific seasons. Tonight I was overcome…
Review of my month on South Beach Diet
Hi friends! March is now over and so is my experiment with the South Beach Diet. I followed the diet to the letter for the first half of the month and followed the “spirit” of the diet the second half of the month (meaning I followed the plan with some exceptions). I lost EXACTLY 7…
More Great Tasting Good For You Recipes
This week I don’t have a loss to report but I am still holding steady at -4.6 and I will take it. Its healthier to lose slowly so the fact that I didn’t gain makes me think I am doing the right things to actually keep it off. I only got to exercise a couple…
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