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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Jered and I headed up to Williamsburg this morning- I had supervision and class and Jered started getting some of his Human Resources stuff done. He got his William and Mary parking pass, and did a few other critical […]

Hurray- the first 20 pounds is gone! I did really well this week and weighed in at 156.9- a loss of 2.1 pounds. I think the first week of vegetarianism might be paying off! We had a couple of delicious veggie dinners- we’ve been doing portabellos on the grill, steamed mixed veggies,  fresh bread, mac […]

Today is the first day of Jered and my quest to be vegetarian for a year. Jered decided that he wanted to give up  meat about a month ago, and so we’ve slowly been eating the meat in our freezer trying to get rid of it. A month later, we are almost completely done with […]

Yesterday we went to the big mall in Norfolk with some friends of Jered’s from work. I went by H&M and bought two very cute shirts- then we had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen (I had a fantastic grilled veggie salad). Up until then we were doing fairly well, then we went up to Cheesecake […]

I can tell it’s the end of the semester by the amount of tension in my shoulders. The work is piling up and the end of the semester seems so close, but there is still so much left to do. Yesterday I had what I call a WW friendly day- meaning that I was too […]

Unfortunately going on a 65 mile bike ride adds some sort of weight- even though we burned way more than we consumed yesterday because we were sitting on the bikes all day and had little time to digest the food that we did eat, we both showed about a 1-2 pound gain this morning. Of […]

We did our Tour de Cure today! It went great- we completed the route, which was actually 69 miles, in just under 5 hours- about 4 hours and 50 minutes. We were riding at a really quick pace- 14.1 mph was our average over the entire ride!
The scenery was beautiful, the ride was nice and […]

Hello 150’s!!! This morning I snuck a peek at the scale, I know I shouldn’t have, but I couldn’t help myself. I saw the 150’s for the first time in at least 4 years. I am so thrilled to be still moving on a downward trend. It feels like I’ve been doing this forever now, […]

Hopped on the scale this morning to find that I’d lost a pound and a half this week despite that quarter pounder with cheese I ate on Sunday last week! So now I’m down to just a hair over 160, and so close to being out of the 160’s all together. It’s exciting to think […]

We did a major spring clean on Sunday and ended up eating waaay too much food later Sunday night. We had leftover pizza and then went out for a burger and fries- there went almost all of the flex points for the week. But- it was a good thing, in a way. We decided to […]