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Another reason to drink coffee

It fights fat: Coffee contains caffeine, which helps speed up your heart rate and thus helps you burn more calories.

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Can I hear a hell yeah!

I have made a promise to myself to lose weight. I had tried several times before, but was unsuccessful because I simply wasn’t exercising. And you really can’t lose weight by just watching your food intake alone because you have to be perfect. And I am not perfect in my eating habits. So I decided [...]

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Fat ticker Saturday

Fat ticker Saturday

I didn’t get the chance to weigh myself yesterday morning, the last morning of the Summer of Me! weight loss contest. I overslept and then had to rush around the house like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get myself and my kids ready for my daughter’s physical and speech therapy appointment. [...]

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Fat Ticker Friday

Fat Ticker Friday

Ok, I weighed myself again this morning. Granted it has only been five days since my last weigh-in, so take that for what it’s worth. This is my weight loss for the past five days: nada. I have plateaued, people. I’m going nowhere fast. So I’m calling out for some help all Summer of Me! [...]

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Fat Ticker <del>Friday</del> Monday

Fat Ticker Friday Monday

I did my weigh in today because I was bloated and menstrual on Thursday and Friday from excess water weight. So what did I lose this past week (drum roll please): nothing. Arrggh! But this is the weird thing. I look slimmer in the shoulders and hips. I don’t look as slim in tummy because [...]

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Fat Ticker Friday

I have to be honest. I didn’t do my weigh-in today.  I’m doing it on Monday instead. I know, I know, that wasn’t part of the agreement when I signed up for the Summer of Me! weight loss contest. The agreement was to weigh in on Fridays and announce the results, but AF arrived yesterday [...]

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Fat Ticker Friday – Independence Day version

Fat Ticker Friday – Independence Day version

It’s Fat Ticker Friday once again, and I’m pleased to say that I lost another pound!  I still feel like I need to get on the stick because at this rate I’m not going to meet my 8 pound weight loss my July 25th, but I, again, will take a pound any day. So here [...]

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Fat Ticker Friday

Fat Ticker Friday

Today’s my first weigh in day for the Summer of Me! weight loss contest hosted by Baby Tea Leaves. I hopped on the scale first thing this morning and saw that I lost 1 pound. Not too bad.  I was hoping for 1.5 or 2 pounds, but I’ll take the 1. So, I’ve got 1 [...]

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Day one of the Summer of Me!

Day one of the Summer of Me!

Today is the first day of the Summer of Me! hosted by Baby Tea Leaves. I’m so excited about this weight loss project because I know I’m not in it by myself.  Every Friday, I’ll weigh in and check in with Baby Tea Leaves to post how much I’ve lost. The best way for me [...]

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It’s the Summer of Me!

Baby Tea Leaves has a weight loss challenge that’s beginning Monday, June 23rd (Little Man’s 7 month birthday!) and I am jumping in with both feet and participating.  She’s calling it the Summer of Me Weight Loss Challenge, inspired by the Seinfeld episode in which George declares his jobless summer the summer of George. In [...]

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