My final weight loss attempt after 40 years of different diet failures. No shakes, no supplements, no surgery, no crazy food, no purchased meal plans, no fasting. Creating a healthier relationship with food and facing the painful truth about my relationship surrounding food. No BS, just common sense. And it worked.
4 Apr 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I'm back at home after a few weeks of whirlwind travel, visiting relatives. I went to visit a cousin for a few days in Florida, and a few days after I got back, my husband and I drove about eight hours to visit his cousins on the Gulf coast, cousins...
25 Mar 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
If you are one of those people who always jumps readily into the unknown and thinks they can accomplish anything they attempt, then I applaud you for that confidence and no-fear attitude. There are many of us, myself included, whose knee-jerk reactio...
17 Mar 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
It's great to have a lot of support when you are dieting. That can come in the form of verbal or written encouragement and praise, sometimes helpful (and not helpful) advice sharing and sometimes it's only an email titled: "I came across this recipe...
15 Mar 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
One of the most convenient (I think) excuses for not following a structured diet plan is "I just don't have the time to...." and you can finish that sentence with: prepare 'special' meals, spend time shopping for healthy food, exercise, or, the most...
11 Mar 2024 4 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Last year, after I had lost 70 pounds, I went to see one of my doctors who is monitoring my thyroid and was told that I still had about 10 to 15 pounds to lose. He was very happy I had lost all that weight, but felt I still needed to lose more. His...
6 Mar 2024 8 minute read 1 comment 7th Decade Redhead
I think the hardest part about being in a family are the family members we don't understand, don't necessarily like, and would never choose to socialize with, yet have no choice but to have a relationship with them because they are family. These peo...
1 Mar 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I was once again sucked into the realm of the Facebook reels where I end up watching endless videos of people skiing in Europe, doing hip flexibility exercises and stretches or watching people make healthy-ish recipes. So now you know now everything...
28 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
If you have been following this blog and have read some of my past posts, you will probably remember me writing about the sad tragedy our family suffered on New Year's Eve Day. My husband's niece passed away unexpectedly from an undiagnosed, one in t...
23 Feb 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Earlier this week, I published a post about life after losing a lot of weight. It was not a 'hearts and flowers' type of post. It was mainly, a "this shit is still hard, and I don't like it" post. I was hoping to provide a dose of reality to prepare...
20 Feb 2024 7 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
One year ago today, I looked at a picture of myself on my phone, that my husband had taken of me, his mom, and my sister-in-law, and mentally said to myself: "enough of this shit... you HAVE to lose weight..." I have no idea where the time went and...
