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March 25th, 2008

Paul McKenna Can Make Me Thin?

Paul McKenna, Britain’s weigh-loss guru, has a 5 week program on TLC titled I Can Make You Thin! I watched episode one he gave four Golden Rules:

When you are hungry - EAT. (Instead of starving all day and then gorging at night or skipping meals to conserve calories. I don’t do this anymore, but did for about […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 7 comments

February 19th, 2008

Virtual Tracee

This is virtual Tracee. You can go to VirtualModel.com and put together your own you. I saw this on someone’s website where they were visualizing their ideal weight using a smaller virtual model. The first one is what I look like now at around 167 (I gained back 8 pounds by quitting the gym temporarily to […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 17 comments

January 18th, 2008

Crap Your Pants or Be Fat?

Alli is the best-selling “weight-loss miracle pill” right now.
Of course, the side effect is that you crap your pants.
Come on Ladies. Is being a few pounds thinner worth crapping your pants?
If it’s worth that, then why is it not worth walking a mile or two?
Another study reports that women would rather take 10 years off […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 11 comments

November 30th, 2007

Shero lost 530 lbs!

Did you check out Nancy Maskin on Oprah?
She weighed in at 703 pounds and lost 530 of them. She was a shut-in for 12 years.
Her miracle? The Internet.
Because people couldn’t see her, they couldn’t dismiss her. It was her first contact with the outside world in which she wasn’t invisible. Through people in political chat rooms that […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 6 comments

August 24th, 2007

Face Me

I missed my face.
My reflection is how I identify with my self.
It’s mysterious to me how I could look in the mirror every day, putting on make up, fixing my hair, or brushing my teeth and then be totally shocked when I saw a photo of myself. I was fat and didn’t see it. The power […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 7 comments

August 2nd, 2007

Star Jones Tells About Surgery

Star Jones, formerly of The View, tells all in the first person on Glamour.com. It’s a raw look at the emotional after-effects of gastric bypass surgery, and why she was trying to keep it private while on The View. She’s lost 160 pounds in three years.
Four years later, I have been successful in maintaining a healthy weight […]

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May 11th, 2007

10 reasons to try Yoga

Since having my last baby a year ago I’ve taken up yoga. The gym I joined offers classes 3 times a week and watches my kids while I take them. My original motivation was the scale. Post-baby I wasn’t dropping the weight as I had expected, but was watching the scale creep dangerously close to 200 lbs. That […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 10 comments