Category: Maintaining weight loss

• Stoic the Vast and Dora the Explorer; Tomato-cornbread salad

  Here’s the thing: A whole lot of stuff does not matter once you get past, say, the quarter-century mark. My husband, Stoic the Vast, thinks that applies to everything (that it doesn’t matter), but he’s wrong. Some things do matter, just not the way people behaved in your high school class 50 years ago. As […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 16, 2012

  Aging, Handling anxiety without food, Maintaining weight loss, Salad, Summer salads, Warrior Run High School Class of ’62

  cooking from garden, High school reunion, self-image, Tomatoes, Vegetables

• Puppy poop

  It’s hard to fault a day in which a kitty shares her lunch chipmunk. Even a day when the air is like wet bread. Puppy and I walked 2.5 20-minute miles this morning. For her, that’s not even stretching her paws. For me, it’s faster than lightning, and I was soaked at the end of […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 11, 2012

  Animal rescue, Compulsive eating, Maintaining weight loss, Weight loss, Why overweight?

  healthy eating, High school reunion, Holiday eating, self-image

• Set points, sloppy joes and settling points

  I think I’m happy to have found this article by Joseph Hooper in the March issue of Elle magazine. It explains why I went at weight work this morning with a bang that’s left me still breathing hard 20 minutes afterward. There’s no reason for this piece to be titled “Sexy and I Know It,” […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  April 25, 2012

  good food, healthy cooking, Maintaining weight loss, Sandwiches, Simple foods, vegetables, Why overweight?

  Beans, Exercise and weight, george blackburn, healthy eating, Keeping weight off, Sloppy joes