Laura

Fall in love again

October 10, 2008

I just fell in love again… with my treadmill. I know you’re thinking… “She owns a treadmill?…  And shes chubby?” Nonesense, right?  One would think these things are mutually exclusive by they are not my friends.   Happily, I got back on the treadmill.  I believe this is due to my extreme laziness that has [...]

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Blue for Barak

October 9, 2008

I guess I will follow the lead of everyone else and make a political statement.   See photo below.  Notice how I am only consuming the blue popcorn kernels?    Skills, my friends.  The skills of a hard core, registered Democrat.   Don’t forget to VOTE on November 4…  Unless you eat the red ones….                                                        

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Goose Eggs

October 6, 2008

I just got a message from my fitness watch.  It read something like this: Total calories burned for the week: 0 Total number of workouts: 0 Average heart rate: 0 You are a loser. It slips away so quickly!  I have been eating healthy but no workin’ out, man.  In an effort to force myself [...]

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Down We Go!

September 29, 2008

Just a quick note to confirm I am officially back to my “pre-wedding indulgence” weight…. In fact, I’m lower by .6 pounds.  For all of you keeping track at home, thats a total net loss of 9 pounds since inception of Atkins… I believe that not drinking alcohol, eating real food, and taking psyllium (fiber) are [...]

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Strictly Business Trip

September 26, 2008

In an amazing feat of strength and agility, I came home from a three day business trip to LA and was DOWN A POUND!!   To clarify why this is such an accomplishment, I will outline the typical course of action on business trips:   Fly In to Host City, become bloated and puffy on [...]

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Flat and Strong

September 22, 2008

I returned from the wedding and recommitted myself to healthiness.  And then I failed.  I won’t go into the major consequences that directly resulting from my failing, but there they were: staring me in the face, taunting me, reminding me I had failed. And so I say again, detox and rejuvenation.  Unlike all the other [...]

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My Big Fat Phenemonal Wedding

September 16, 2008

Even though the wedding was phenemonal, it made me fat! Or maybe it was all the booze I drank and all the cake I ate…. and that delicious, nasty, road trip food…. hard to say. Today I am back, we are no longer locked out of the house and I have already attended PowerPump at [...]

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