I am trying to stay upbeat and positive but my weight loss is at a crawl now compared to how it was when I first started. I weighed in this morning at 141.5, which means eleven pounds to go. At this rate I’ll be at my goal weight by, I don’t know, CHRISTMAS. Ok I’m [...]

I’d love to get suggestions and feedback about this blog including what you’d like to see. I’m going to start posting this query for feedback monthly, so if you don’t have any suggestions right now but think of some later you can always let me know next month. I’m so excited about this blog because [...]

I was whining about in my last post, LOL. Weighed in this morning at 145.5! Fifteen pounds to go. I hope to be at my goal weight by the end of August. My knees hurt from running yesterday, I think I overdid it. I’m not going to run today but I will do a brisk [...]

Weighed in today 146 again, which means one. pound. lost so far this week. The last 20 pounds is creeping off, egads. I feel like I weigh less now than I did this morning, just a smidge, so maybe by tomorrow I will have dropped another half pound and I’ll be 145.5 The run today [...]

It feels a little strange to ‘only’ have 17 pounds to lose compared with before. But I realize I still have to bring the same level of intensity to my workouts and the same frame of mind regarding food if I truly want to get the rest of this weight off me. It’s kind of [...]

Today is the last day of my 25 Week Fitness Challenge 2007! I weighed in this morning at 147…Seventeen pounds from my goal of 130 pounds. So I guess I will be cleaning out the basement by myself! I actually am quite pleased with where I am at. I lost 63 pounds! and maybe aiming [...]

Hello there, I’m Trula Breckenridge and this is my fitness & weight loss blog. I’m a 36 year old woman who lives in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. I’m a mother of 3 children, ages 19, 13, and 10, and like many mothers I struggled with losing weight after having children. In 2004 I wrote [...]

I practice Iyengar yoga, and it is such a pleasing way to begin the day. I think of all the things I have done in an effort to grow as a person, doing yoga has been one of the most beneficial to my personality. It is very calming and soothing to my soul. As recently [...]

I went running! I have been waiting and waiting to start running again since the beginning of the challenge in January! I was too heavy then, 210 pounds, and since I have a lot of weight naturally on my thighs/bottom and then had so much excess fat there as well, I thought it best to [...]

I am still taking it easy from my massive period this week. I usually have a very light flow that only lasts 4 days including dry up, so this 7 day, heavy flow period was a shock, have mercy. But my six pounds of water bloat is dropping off nicely, I weighed in this morning [...]

My back at 170 pounds!!! Butt fat is decreased too. Compare it to my back fat pic at 201 pounds:

I did say I was going to list my meals. Ok: Breakfast – Big bowl of oatmeal with applesauce this morning and cooked in peach mango juice. Yum yum yum. I licked the bowl it was so good, hell to the yeah! Glad nobody was around to see that tee hee! Water, big glass and [...]

We have a lot of running around today, going to a few events in honor of Dr. King. I’ve done my yoga and jumping rope and walked 4,102 steps, I am sure I will get the rest in during all the walking around today. My psychological hunger seems to have abated a bit. I haven’t [...]

The Boy Bops have wrestling matches starting at 2 today so I will miss my Sunday spinning class. So I’m going to the gym in a few and do the elliptical and stationary bike instead…I’ll try to do the stuff I remember from class. This is cutting into my writing time, but I got up [...]

It has gotten much easier to resist late-night snacking. Redirecting my behavior, doing something else has been extremely helpful. and having my emergency carrots to fall back on if I feel like I have to eat something helps so much. For breakfast I usually have oatmeal with cut apples or raspberries. It is getting a [...]

wooooooot Well I just had a handful of chips before my nice breakfast of oatmeal with raspberries. But I am not sweating it because I am proud of myself for stopping at one handful. Chips are one of my trigger foods. I’m glad I ate a little because otherwise I’d be obsessing over them all [...]

I made it through the week. Today will be ok, no major temptations. In about an hour I’m going to spinning class, then meet with a trainer to go over the various machines and set a weight training plan, then swimming for about an hour. Then work rest of day until about 11pm, then bed. [...]

obstacles my major obstacle is that I have trouble stopping when I am full. it’s like I have to eat until my stomach is distended. I am not an emotional eater so much as I just feel I have to pack in a lot of food, especiall at dinner, just because it is there. my [...]

I’m having a lot of psychological hunger though. I was just telling Mercury Man, I can’t be hungry! I just had a big bowl of oatmeal, grrrrr, with raspberries and brown sugar. But I still felt very hungry so I ate some emergency carrots (I keep a bag on my nightstand) and drank another big [...]