Archive for March, 2009

  • vacations, susie and healthy eating

    Saturday, March 21st, 2009

    can the they survive together? probably. but, they didn’t this time. i’ve had a good time while on vacation with friends. we’ve done something physically healthy each day by either walking around beautiful cities like Charleston or Savannah or when we did stay-put here at Edisto we did a Walk Away the Pounds three mile [...]

  • update on the Fitness Wave Challenge

    Monday, March 16th, 2009

    just a short post to update you all on the FItnessWave challenge i undertook the beginning of February. i haven’t lost a lot of weight…5 measley pounds at last count. the amazing thing is that when i was getting ready to head out for vacation and started trying stuff on to bring – well, i [...]

  • The Not-So Biggest Loser Part II

    Sunday, March 8th, 2009

    around 9am they started handing out wristbands to the first 500 people who would be the lucky ones to audition in front of the creative director at The Biggest Loser auditions. hundreds didn’t make the cut and were sent off in the cold rain to their waiting cars. they seemed to have melted into the [...]

  • the biggest…ok…the not-so-biggest loser part one

    Saturday, March 7th, 2009

    a couple of weeks ago my big-boned friend Bob called and asked if i’d go to the casting call for The Biggest Loser with him. “we could be a team. they’d call us The Improvisers.” at first i was insulted because i’d been working out a lot more and counting those damn calories. then i [...]

  • ouch and over it

    Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

    well, i’d been doing very well keeping track of my calories and walking, stretching and getting into the Wii Fitness Game. two weeks ago on a friday morning i took the dog outside and twisted my knee. ouch. it swelled up pretty quickly since i tried to ignore it and didn’t put any ice on [...]