Category: Starting over

• All Aboard the Weight Watchers Express

  I. Love. Boxing. Not to watch but to do. Wish I’d known 40 or 50 years ago how much fun it is to safely smash things. We have two teenage boys in our little class at the Y, and I’m trying not to slow their cage-fighting career progress. Last night (first class) I had my…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 24, 2016

  Building better habits, Exercise, Maintaining weight loss, Starting over, Taking care of ourselves, Weight Watchers, Working out

  Boxing, self-image, Strawberries, weight loss, YMCA

• Weight Watchers watching

  Sunday’s USA Today crossword features shades of blue. Appropriate, because I am feeling cobalt, indigo, azure, sky, baby, teal and several others since going back to Weight Watchers three weeks ago (my fourth trip to the scales is tomorrow). The first week I was just anxious — how was I going to figure out the nifty WW phone app?…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 3, 2016

  Addiction, Building better habits, Compulsive eating, Depression, Emo eating, Importance of others to recovering addict, Starting over, Stress eating, Sugar, Weight Watchers

  binging, healthy eating, obesity, self-image, why overeat

• Back in the kitchen, empenadas

  Eight weeks after my second hip replacement and I was ready this week to get back in the kitchen. Stoic the Vast does well at the stove (especially considering he started at Ground Zero), but he gets impatient, doesn’t like anything complicated. I live for complicated — as long as it’s healthy and fast. Not…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 10, 2016

  Building better habits, Easter, Exercise, Falling off healthy eating wagon when discouraged, Importance of exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Lent, Starting over

  broccoli, Calzones, cheese, chicken, Garlic, Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown

• Anne Lamott; salmon patties

  Anne Lamott said many memorable things Sunday in Charlotte’s Christ Episcopal Church on a golden gingko-leaved fall afternoon. What I heard (meaning remember ) is that she didn’t want to be a model of “victimized superiority” (I know some of those dreary people), that she’s fairly certain among the things Jesus frequently says to her is…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 13, 2013

  Anne Lamott, Fish, Seniors and weight loss, Starting over, Weight loss

  Christ Episcopal Charlotte, healthy eating, obesity, over-eating, salmon, self-image, Stitches