~Jenn As I mentioned last week, my shoulder is pretty screwed – last week I couldn’t even raise my arms to wash my hair.  This has wreaked havoc on my workouts, and my diet has correspondingly gone to hell. Lesson #463: I can’t eat like I’m working out a lot if I’m not actually working…

Jenn When I was overweight, I always kinda thought that losing weight would fix a ton of stuff in my life. That my life would then be the way I wanted it to be. I have to say, a lot of that happened.  I can wear the clothes I want. I can walk around naked…

Jenn I was thinking about goals and rewards today, and what the very beginning of the life change process was like for me. When starting out, I had a general weight goal, kind of aiming for around 150. (I’ve never hit 150, more on that later)  What I did have firmly in mind though, was…

Jenn One of the biggest changes that happened to me over the course of becoming Jenn 2.0 has been how well I know myself.  Before I made the change, I was in excuse-making mode. In my head, I was always doing as well as I could, trying as hard as I could try, but obviously…

Jenn This is a weird blog entry, it was hard to write. I had an interesting conversation with a guy a while back. He didn’t know that I had ever been overweight. He randomly started talking about how he’d never date a fat chick, that some other poor fucker could deal with those, and they…

Jenn I was reading an article in Time magazine today, about a study published in ‘Nature’ that sugar is a toxic substance and should be regulated. A lot of my weight gain came from sugar in various forms, particularly drinks.  When I first started eating healthy, I went cold-turkey from sugar and refined carbs like…