In it to…

November 29, 2010

Hi everyone! I’m Lisa from Seriously, new mom to a beautiful baby girl.  A lot of new mothers would probably say they are in it to lose the baby weight, but me? I’m in it to help battle postpartum depression. I experienced the most low-risk, uneventful pregnancy right up until the end of my 31st [...]

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My Green Light People

November 5, 2010

I’ve hit a plateau with my weight and it’s one I have hit many times before. The past couple of weeks have been tough, watching the scale stay the same or, on tough days, climb back up to where I started. I know a person can fluctuate up to five pounds, but since I’ve only [...]

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Liqui-Fat??

November 4, 2010

So remember how the other day I talked about how I am the same weight and have stopped Gaining weight and all of that? (over here) Well apparently the food things are not the only changes I’ve had. I don’t always pay a lot of attention to my body anymore. It’s mushy and not very [...]

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Maintaining my weight isn’t enough

November 1, 2010

I’ve made a few changes since the last time I posted here. Bad news is I ended up Failing at the workout plans since I had things going on. I failed so badly that I don’t think I lasted a week. MASSIVE fail. When I gained all the weight I was eating a lot of [...]

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What Is This “Injured”?

October 29, 2010

Originally, it was my plan to ditch all the complicated plans and just Run Until I’m Skinny. Well, my knee has other plans. I suffered a bout of what was eventually listlessly diagnosed as tendinitis back at the start of the year, just a few months before I did the Enbridge Ride To Conquer Cancer. [...]

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A New Challenge

October 25, 2010

I did it! I finished the Couch to 5K and I can officially call myself a runner. A very slow runner, but a runner. First I want to thank everyone who told me to go for it and supported me through this board. Second, I want to say that I’m doing it again! I know, [...]

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My Name Is E3 And I’m Impatient

October 21, 2010

When I was little, I used to climb the 8-foot Ikea bookshelves my parents had in our basement. No amount of “no-ing” from my parents could deter me until eventually my exhausted mother said to me “Don’t climb the bookshelves because it will fall on top of you.” That made perfect sense to me, and [...]

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A Reverse New Year’s Resolution

October 20, 2010

Hello! My name is E3 and I have a challenge for you. Did you know it’s approximately 11 weeks until the New Year? It is. If you are like many delusional  optimistic people, you probably make a New Year’s Resolution every year … and then break it soon thereafter. I know I do. In fact, [...]

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New gym, new attitude and how support is making all the difference.

October 15, 2010

Hey IITGI’ers!!!! How are you all doing!? Good? Great! Because I’m excited! So last week I finally joined my company’s fitness facility. I’m so super pumped about this. At first I refrained from joining, because I already spent a billion dollars on my then current gym and it was just down the road from me. [...]

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Holding Myself Accountable

October 8, 2010

The reason I was so gung-ho for joining IITGI was I needed a forum to hold myself accountable. For months, most of the summer in fact, I did a very good job. I lost 30 pounds. I was feeling very positive and thought for once I had truly committed myself to saying goodbye to obesity. [...]

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