BeachBody customer service

Grrr. I am so frustrated right now! I placed an online order with BeachBody last night. BeachBody has great products and fitness support but absolutely lousy customer service if you have questions about your order. It is farmed out to what sounds like India. Each department is unable to communicate with the others.
You get bounced [...]

Thank you CLE

Yesterday’s mail had a surprise for me. A check for almost $30 from Christian Light Education. It wasn’t a refund, it was a paycheck. As those of you who read last summer’s posts, I went down to Christian Light’s teacher training in Virginia. At the end, they asked me to write a brief testimonial of [...]

Fitness update 2009 #5

This has been a fantastic week. I’ve had my biggest weekly weight loss yet, two and a half pounds! I’ve been strict about NO S eating and started the third level of Slim in 6 (Burn It Up!) this week. As a result, I’m down to 165.25 and have now gone below the monthly [...]

Monthly weight met!

Yeah! Hooray! With no gimicks today, I’ve met my goal weight for the month, 166! Surpassed it actually by almost quarter of a pound. Not bad considering how bumpy my weight loss has been this month. I just need to keep at or below the goal for the rest of the week and it’s pay [...]

How Chugach schools work

Dee wanted to know how does the school district that my kids are in work? Is it totally a distance/homeschool program?

Chugach is the school district we use for homeschool. They have traditional schools in 3 small coastal villages. They also have correspondence/homeschool programs based in Anchorage, Valdez and Fairbanks. I go through the Fairbanks program. [...]

Burn It Up day 1!

I really didn’t like what the scale said this morning. We had dinner at friend’s house last night (homemade cheeseburgers, potato salad, and dessert). I gained half a pound. Since today is the start of the weekly average for deciding if we got our money bonus for meeting the monthly weight goal, Ray said [...]

Greedy eating

Are you a greedy eater? Do you order more than you know you’ll eat to be full? Do you order a footlong sandwich when a 6 inch will do just because it’s only a little more expensive but twice the food? Do you order the large fries and drink? Do you go back for more [...]

Tricks to eating less

Weight loss happens when you use more calories than you consume. It takes 3500 calories to burn 1 pound fat. A safe weight loss is generally 1-2 pounds per week. This can be done through diet and/or exercise. Most people choose diets because they take less physical effort.
As part of any good weight management plan, [...]

Fitness update 2009 #4

Well, the little bunny only hopped a quarter pound down the garden this week. I still have over a pound to reach goal weight this month. On the plus side, that means I’m 10 percent to my overall goal weight when I meet my goal for this month! However, I’ve been much more strict about [...]

New big girl bed

My daughter finally got her big girl bed properly set up this afternoon. I bought a wood bed frame at a garage sale last summer but didn’t have a mattress set until this week. She had been sleeping just on an old mattress on the floor. Today my husband brought the new set up to [...]