Week 4: 204.4lbsPounds Lost: 12.8 Bittersweet Success Last week I lost just over 4 pounds!  I was thrilled, buoyed, jubilant! Then my husband stepped on the scale.  He was down 1.6 pounds.  Uh-oh.  He’d lost over 4 pounds each week so far, and I knew he had worked really hard … [Read more...]

Week 3: 208.2lbs Total Pounds Lost: 9 Yesterday I passed a major milestone – I fit into my old size 14 pants – comfortably!  This is the best part of the weight loss journey – seeing and feeling the results on my body, instead of just on the scale.  It’s what I’m going for, really, despite … [Read more...]

Week 2: 211 lbs - down 6.2 lbs This was a week of success and failure, support and revelation.  I made a few bad food choices, but lots of good ones.  I was amazed and inspired by the remarkable comments of encouragement and camaraderie from the ladies on urbanmoms.ca.  And I think I … [Read more...]

Q:   My husband, children and I have been invited to spend a week at my sister’s cottage along with her family and our other sister’s family too.  The three clans vacationed together last summer and I found my parenting style clashed with those of my siblings, which caused a lot of … [Read more...]

Day 1: 217.2 lbs OUCH!  How did that happen?  Or rather, how did I let that happen?  Now I’ve never been skinny, but 217 lbs is close to my peak weight even at 40 weeks pregnant…and my last child is about to turn 3, so it’s definitely not “baby weight”.  Time to take … [Read more...]

1. Eat every 3 hours – even if you’re not hungry. This will keep your metabolism fired up for maximum calorie burning and will help curb any potential night-time binges! 2. Do circuit training 2-4 times per week. This is the best way to quickly burn body fat and tone up (visit www.omegaslimwomen.com … [Read more...]

Every Saturday and Sunday morning just after we wake up, my son and I play "Russia”.  Playing Russia involves me telling my son the story of the first time I laid eyes on him in an orphanage in Ivanovo, about four and a half hours northeast of Moscow and how, three months later, he became … [Read more...]

My older son, Matthew, is one of my greatest joys and one of my greatest sources of stress.  He is a little dynamo who does not stop challenging my husband and I, both mentally and physically, each day.  Matthew has a severe allergy to peanuts and has severe, fast-onset asthma. He has had … [Read more...]

I was intrigued when I first heard that Silken Laumann had written a book on the importance of play. The Canadian athlete most famous for her amazing comeback from a career threatening injury to win a bronze medal in Barcelona, is now a mom of two and an advocate for active children.  She … [Read more...]

I was intrigued when I first heard that Silken Laumann had written a book on the importance of play. The Canadian athlete most famous for her amazing comeback from a career threatening injury to win a bronze medal in Barcelona, is now a mom of two and an advocate for active children.  She … [Read more...]