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.
17 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
In the spring of 1993, my husband left his then current job to take another job 1,850 miles away. At the time he was working for a minicomputer company in Massachusetts. His leaving for another job was probably a good decision since the company he wo...
12 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Nothern hemisphere life at this time of year can be challenging. Even though I do not live in snow-covered climes, winter for me is hard. Snow makes everything look beautiful, clean and fresh. In the south, it's overcast, gray and dull. The trees are...
3 Feb 2024 8 minute read 1 comment 7th Decade Redhead
If you follow this blog, you may have noticed that I went 'dark' for a week or so. My husband and I went on a planned road trip to visit my daughter and her boyfriend (they cohabitate, and yes, I'm fine with it). She had recently been made a partner...
22 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
The thumbnail photo above was one my husband took of me back in 2014. I am about to attempt my first, and only, to this day, officially timed running event. It was a Color Me Rad 5K race in Houston, Texas. My friends and work colleagues talked (nagge...
20 Jan 2024 13 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
A few days ago, I was sitting here in my jammies and fuzzy socks, a usual occurrence for a cold (14F) morning in Texas. We don't get these cold snaps very often. Our town is not prepared to deal with snow and ice, so when we get them, we are told to...
17 Jan 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I was talking to my sister the other day, and she was reminiscing about our sibling therapy sessions last summer. The extraordinarily rainy weather last summer gave us a lot of time to sit around and talk. Many revelations came to light. There were t...
16 Jan 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
"I wish I could more like you. You always walk with such confidence..." Huh?.... This was something that was spoken to me about 15 years ago. I never really forgot it. It Easter Sunday at a church service, back in the day when our family were regul...
15 Jan 2024 5 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
It's been two weeks since our niece passed away and two weeks since my husband's family has had the worst day of their lives. I still feel helpless with respect to how to help my brother-in-law, sister-in-law and my nephew. Other than feed them, di...
13 Jan 2024 5 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Back in mid-November, I put up a post about Ozempic and other similar drugs that people have been taking for weight loss. It was an 'Ozempic for dummies" type of post (which I, myself, needed). I did some research to provide the basics of what these...
12 Jan 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
One of the things I struggle with is thinking that my way of thinking and doing a diet, i.e. the calorie deficit diet, is the way to go for everyone. I truly believe that from a physiological standpoint, this is the best option for most people to los...
