Weight Loss Success Story: Donesha Bolden

Success Story Donesha before and after losing weight

I am so excited to share Donesha’s weight los success story with you today! Donesha used to weigh 215 pounds.  Now, she weighs 142 pounds.  She now looks like this: 73 pounds gone for good!  Doesn’t she look amazing!  She is a fellow teacher who lives in Atlanta!  She was featured in our local Atlanta [...]

Top 10 Ways to Handle Stress

Dear Stress, Let's Break Up!

I had a very stressful day on Friday.  My principal decided to move lots of teachers out of their current grade levels into new ones.  ”Lots” of teachers included my best friend Kristen and yours truly.  Say hello to a new fifth grade teacher.  No, I have never taught fifth grade before.  So, with that [...]

Eating Paleo

Keep Calm and Eat Paleo

So yesterday, I posted my first edition of What’s Up.  I got a few responses from people who were interested in exactly what I have been eating and how I have been eating Paleo. Let me start by saying I am not a Paleo expert.  There are a lot of people out there who REALLY [...]

What’s Up – May 2013 Edition

Jennifer at Field Day

How crazy life is right now!  We are in the throws of trying to finish up the school year with a mere 10 school days left…OMG!  10 school days?  Where the heck did this year go? I just wanted to pop in and give you a brief update of What’s Up in my life lately. [...]

My First Diet Test

Katherine in Dollywood with her daughter

I went out of town over the weekend and had my first real test on how I would do with my eating plan, out of my normal environment. It was a huge diet fail. I didn’t just fail, I failed miserably. I went to Dollywood in Tennessee with my daughter’s 7th grade chorus trip. I [...]

Weight Loss Success Story: Kim Lawson

Weight Loss Before and After Picture Kim

Today’s success story is someone who decided to give Weight Watchers online a try.  Her name is Kim and she started Weight Watchers weighing in at 212 pounds. A year later, she had successfully lost 60 pounds and lives a much healthier life: Not only did she lose 60 pounds, she also lost some knee [...]

My New Eating Plan is… [Video]

Medifast - Proven, Healthy Weight Loss

I chose Medifast. It worked so well in the past that I had to do it again. It has been the most effective diet and was the easiest for me to follow with my schedule and family life. I have decided that this will be the eating plan that gets me to my healthy weight. [...]

I Miss Pizza

After Exercising, I always eat a pizza. Just kidding. I don't exercise!

I have been eating Paleo for almost 8 weeks now. Larry has me on a “reset” to reset my body to be a fat burner and not a sugar and carb burner.  So, for the last eight weeks, I have eaten protein, good fats, and good carbs.  That’s it.  It is paleo as far as [...]

What Diet Haven’t I Tried?

Brian and Katherine right before getting married.

I bet if you were to ask most women, they would say they are on some sort of diet. Dieting seems like it is just what women do.  I would also venture out there and say that most diets work and you will lose weight on them. However, in order to lose that weight, you [...]

My Quest to Get Rid of Over 100 Pounds

Katherine and Brian

Hey everyone, I just wanted to take a minute and introduce myself. My name is Katherine and I am the proud sister of Jennifer, creator of ItSuxToBeFat. When Jennifer created this blog I was suppose to blog along with her and we were going to do this together. Can you guess who chickened out at [...]