http://svelte.buddyslim.com honk if you like self-absorption Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:42:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en $680 is a LOT of money.  I have now paid it TWICE.  To my trainer. My trainer charges $85 a session, and I take one session a week.  You have to buy 8-week packages and you pay up front. That's a total of $1,360.00 so far. I have been with him for 9 ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/10/03/too-big-to-fail/ ...rather than living to eat, has made for an amazingly freeing week.  On some level, I can't really take credit for it, as I didn't make a decision to DO anything other than to heed the advice of my new book and STOP whenever I felt like going to the kitchen, and take ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/08/27/eating-to-live/ Here's a confession. I lie on Facebook.  Not about my life, my job, my marriage, my net worth, my politics, my home, my opinions, my successes and failures, or my lifestyle.  I only lie about how I look. I doctor my Facebook profile photos.   Photoshopping pictures is part of my profession - erasing crow's ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/08/23/faceliftbook/ So, I have this new book about emotional eating.  It's a funny label, because, if you're like me, during the act of emotional eating the LAST thing you feel is emotions.  When I'm in that mindless stuffing phase of "emotional" eating, what I feel is, in fact, nothing.  Which, as I ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/08/20/the-tummy-that-cried-wolf/ Well, if anyone's keeping track (what vanity, eh? As if anyone's staying up nights wondering what I'm doing... Just call me 'Brangelina'...), they'll see it's been seven - count 'em, SEVEN! - months since I was last here.   There's been a lot of personal turmoil, family issues, loss of a loved one, ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/08/13/weigh-ja-vu/ When I started blogging, I swore to myself that I wouldn't allow this to turn into just another daily account of every calorie to personally cross my path, lists of excercises done or avoided, or mindless minutae about what cute thing my husband said/cat did today/shoes I saw. But above all, I vowed blogging wouldn't be a bid ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/02/02/6/ Check out my new toy:   This, my friends, is The Omron HBF-500 Body Composition Monitor With Scale.  According to the clever clever folks at Omron's website, it "features highly accurate, full body sensing technology that measures body weight, body fat, visceral fat, BMI, resting metabolism, and skeletal fat - a complete body composition ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/01/15/thats-ms-mc-flurry-to-you/ For reasons I can only attribute to God’s having a sense of humor, ever since I decided to sort my body and eating and health out once and for all I have been put in situation after situation involving easy access to gobs of fattening eats. I was thinking about ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/01/09/temptation-aisle-land/ Ok.  So, anyone else notice the tendency to define our MORALITY in terms of the food we have eaten today? "I was so good today - only XXXX calories!"   or - "I was so bad today - I went to McDonalds!" By this logic, we could broccolli ourselves to Dalai Lama-hood, and I can ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/01/04/in-the-gardenburger-of-good-and-evil/ Quite frankly, I'm super annoyed that I'm starting this weight loss commitment on day one of the new year.  It smacks of being a "New Year's Resolution," which - as we all know - is about the flimsiest contract since Britney and K-Fed's prenup.  And considering I'm not merely starting, but starting ... http://svelte.buddyslim.com/2008/01/01/hippo-new-year/