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29 Jan 2025 6 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
It was one of those weeks where my body fought back. I'm sure it realized I was going for a long-term calorie deficit, and it responded with a 'hell no we ain't doin' that." I stepped on the scale to discover I'd lost 0.8 of a pound. My app is set...
20 Jan 2025 9 minute read 1 comment 7th Decade Redhead
This week was easier than last week. I'm on a roll and I'm a believer that success breeds success. Here is a summary of last week: Pounds Lost: 1.8 (6,300 calories) Calories consumed: 8,167 Total Calories Burned: 14,467 (6,300+8,167) BMR Calories Bu...
16 Jan 2025 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
If you have kept up with this blog, you may remember me posting about my husband breaking his heel the last week we were at camp, which required me to do most of the work to break down our campsite, drive the 2,000 miles back to our home, and then ba...
13 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Monday is 'get on the scale' day (oh joy) and I was dreading it. I don't know why, because I believed I did really well my first week. I was happy to see I lost 2.4 pounds last week. While I was happy to see this, I was hoping for more of a first...
12 Jan 2025 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I've taken a lot of heat this week on social media for commenting on posts that discuss weight loss and on a few posts about the various injections for weight loss that are now available. These injections were initially prescribed for reducing blood...
10 Jan 2025 9 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Two years ago next month, I started a serious weight loss journey. My goal was to lose 60 pounds by my 60th birthday. I lost 70 pounds in six months and achieved my goal. I thought once I lost the weight, all my weight loss problems would magically g...
9 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk
Nutrition. You polarize this third-dimensional realm with your specifics, albeit you never surrender to diets despite the glorious efforts to better understand our bodies and physiques. We misinterpret your intention to make us look slim, forgetting...
26 Oct 2024 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I was victimized by the glamorous world of Facebook reels. If you have read this blog for a while, you've read my confession that I end up down those rabbit holes. I especially like to watch cooking videos on Facebook and I really like reality TV co...
20 Oct 2024 2 minute read 1 comment Bala
I have been watching some medical web series like Dr. House and Good Doctor, and when I watch these things, I ask so many questions to myself. I don't know if I learn anything medical from these web series, but at least they make me think rationally...
23 Jul 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I know I have been among the missing in this blogosphere in the last month or so. Occupational hazard of being back up in Northern New England at our summer camp and being busy. The weather up here was unseasonably warm in June, mid-eighties and very...
