Another scary article in the paper telling about diet pills being sold online that contain high amounts of a suspected carcinogen and sibutramine, a chemical cousin of amphetamines. Don’t you think that’s scary?! For years I wished for a magic pill that would alleviate my appetite and I was sure I would lose weight [...]

It seems like we’ve been on this diet a lot longer than 8 weeks! It almost seems like we’ve never NOT been on it. Even with the recent holiday baking for Thanksgiving and now Christmas, we have been so GOOD. I am really proud of us. It’s true we have allowed ourselves to have a [...]

The little MP3 player we bought this weekend plays and operates beautifully! I’m so pleased with it! I spent several hours last night ripping music from my CDs to download to the player, and with Don’s help, I got it all done. The sound is great, and I’ve finally got the hang of how to [...]

There are so many bargains available these days on so many different things it’s difficult to make up my mind which one to spend money on first. It didn’t take me long to ask Don to ‘please’ go pick up a couple of these little MP3 players for us to use while walking on the [...]

This is some kind of record for me—starting the fifth week of the South Beach Diet with no slips so far! Good for me! Don has not ‘slipped’, but he has deliberately allowed himself to have a couple of things due to circumstances. I’ve been fortunate that I’ve not been exposed to any ‘good’ food [...]