In it Together Week: 12 Pounds Lost: 24.2 Last week, after a gain of one pound, I set myself a goal: to lose two pounds by the next week's weigh-in. I chose 2 pounds for a few reasons - it's a reasonable amount of weight to expect to lose in a week, plus it represented recovering the ground lost … [Read more...]

Week 11 Pounds Lost 20 AAAAaaaggghhh! It happened again! This time I gained a whole pound, though. It sure got me down in the dumps, but it also got me thinking. Why did this happen? I could have sworn I had a "good week", meaning I stayed on program, making healthy choices and eating reasonable … [Read more...]

This weekend I did something momentous.  Something I feared was no longer a part of my life.  I went out with my girlfriends!  I know this sounds crazy but I haven't been out since my first child was born.  I don't mean out for dinner or a movie I mean OUT.  We got dressed … [Read more...]

I was recently speaking to Jen at urbanmoms.ca about the importance of having other mom friends.  I didn't become a mom until past the mid-thirty mark and, before I became one I always envisioned mommy friends sitting around in a circle singing Barney songs.  This was not appealing to me … [Read more...]

Week: 10 Pounds Lost: 21.0 This week I achieved a second major goal: I lost 10% of my starting weight. During our Weight Watchers meeting, my husband and I were both applauded and presented with a 10% WW keychain as a reward. Then the leader asked us what we had done differently in order to have … [Read more...]

It's Monday morning and I'm still recovering.  Saturday night was the big cottage party I have been looking forward to for weeks.  We invited a bunch of neighbours to our cottage for a potluck bbq.  I couldn't wait to get to know my fellow cottagers better and maybe find a few pals to … [Read more...]

So ladies, tomorrow is THE BIG NIGHT.  You know...my big cottage extravaganza!  OK, really a potluck with a few other couples but I could not be more excited if I were planning the event of the century.  Pathetic really.  Shows you how uneventful my life has been recently (that's … [Read more...]

Yay me! Well, I made it through 2 harrowing days alone. Seems crazy now looking back but I barely slept a wink at night...thank God both of my kids are still napping! This was the only real sleep I got. I have to do this again in a few weeks so please, any additional suggestions for overcoming the … [Read more...]

Before I adopted my son Alexei from Russia, I had to go through a rigorous approval process. Any individual or family adopting internationally or domestically will have to complete an adoption home study with a qualified social worker and submit it to the Ministry of Children and Youth … [Read more...]

Week: 9 Pounds Lost: 17.8 Ouch! I'm Up! Well folks, the inevitable has finally happened: last week I gained weight. Mind you, it was only 0.6 lbs, but boy, was it a blow! I'd been cruising along for two months in a sanctimonious haze of success. I'd lost weight every single week, I was feeling … [Read more...]