Archive for November, 2009

A Confession

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

I mentioned on Twitter the other day that I have a confession to make.
The past few weeks, as you can probably tell from my weight loss progress page, I have not been losing weight but gaining it. I have only done weigh-ins irregularly and I have gained about 7 pounds in the past two months. [...]

Of tact and awkward silences

Friday, November 20th, 2009

A topic on a weight loss forum I am a member of tonight reminded me of this story that happened to me a few years ago:
I was taking Advanced Italian and we were revising adjectives for describing people. Our teacher asked a girl to describe me. The girl described mein the way you’d usually describe [...]

My first Tae Bo class

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

I went to the gym today again (two days in a row, go me!). I wanted to try Tae Bo, as the personal trainer who put together my training plan suggested it to me, and yes, it took me four weeks to actually go there and try it out. I know!
I started out with two [...]