I knew I had to have a good week leading up to the weekend of my mother’s wedding because I had already decided that I was not going to stress about food at the rehearsal dinner, wedding morning brunch, and at the wedding itself.  After my very low loss last week that I thought was because of dear old aunt flo’s imminent arrival (it wasn’t so I have no explanation except that my body needed a weight loss break), (more…)

I am inspired to write this post after reading one of the articles that someone posted over at the Jenny Craig website because it really got me thinking about all of the negative ways other people have tried to “support” me in my weight loss over the years.  I think when someone undertakes the idea (more…)

I’m sorry things have been quiet on the blog front but last week I worked a horrendously busy work week.  I feel like week three has come and gone so fast which I’m pretty sure is because I am finally starting to stop thinking about food all the time.  I’m sure that sounds like a pretty crazy thought but it’s the blatant truth….I’ve spent the first three weeks (more…)

Team Jenny & Melissa have done it again!  Yesterday I had my second weigh in at Jenny Craig, and I lost a whopping 5.2 pounds!!  I was experiencing a magnitude of anxiety leading up to the moment that both of my feet made it onto the scale, which made it painfully clear just how much anxiety I have about the role of food in my life.  I have been doing a lot of rethinking and reformulating over the past two weeks, trying to remember that we need food to live….we don’t live for food.

I have come to grips this past week with the fact that food is always (more…)

I hate getting weighed in – HATE IT…..but when I joined up with Jenny Craig 6 days ago I vowed that I would turn my weigh-ins into victories no matter what and when I woke up faced with the fact that I had no choice, today was weigh in day…..I went through the small victories in my head so that if I did have a not so fabulous weigh in I could remind myself or all the fantastic things I did right.

1.  At my nieces baptism dinner I managed to avoid eating anything tempting or bad for me – I even passed over the creme brulee, raspberry cheesecake and baptism cake.

2.  Aunt Flo came knocking on my door yesterday and ummm hello???  One day before my weigh in?  Really?  Hello bloating and (more…)

….and I’m not waving the white flag of surrender yet!

I have to say that I am *gasp* actually enjoying this new Jenny Craig diet that I’m on!  I feel totally supported by my family and friends and I just have an all around good feeling and incredible motivation about it.  The first few days have had their challenges , ones that in the past might have really sent me over the edge of indulgence but I surprised even myself be resisting the tempation to turn to my old friend food.  This weekend we were at the baptism party of my beloved niece Gabriella and the food was taking some time to come out and because of my strict schedule of trying to eat on a sort of planned out schedule……I was starving.  I was feeling particularly anxious about how hard it might be to resist some of the delicious treats that would be served as the meal unfolded but I’m proud to say that I had a nice big salad, some chicken, roasted peppers and parsnips, and 3 very small potato disks – for dessert I chose the fresh fruit cup over the creme brulee and raspberry cheesecake and when the baptism cake was passed around I took a deep breath in and declined the offer.

A lot of people would say that I should have indulged in just a small piece of cake but (more…)