Category Archives: weight loss

A Weight Watchers wake-up call

Posted on March 26, 2014 by tischcaylor

Looking to take off some extra “baggage” put on over the weekend, I decided to break out my old Weight Watchers book, complete with its falling-apart paper slide-rule of a “points calculator.” Toward the end of my 90-pound weight loss … Continue reading →

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66.5 pounds vaporized in contest

Posted on March 18, 2014 by tischcaylor

We lost a total of 66.5 pounds in our 6-week family weight-loss contest – an average of 8.3 pounds per person or 16.6 pounds per two-person team. In the team competition,  Colleen and I just barely edged Ben and Mason, … Continue reading →

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Weight-loss contest so fun we forgot about a prize

Posted on March 11, 2014 by tischcaylor

With just one week to go in our famlly weight-loss contest, we still haven’t settled on a prize – or  whether the winning team will be determined by pounds or percentage of weight lost. Strangely, no one seems to be … Continue reading →

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More snacks that ‘don’t count’

Posted on January 22, 2014 by tischcaylor

Last week I was talking about zero-point snacks I use to get around the BLT rule in Weight Watchers. Well, I did some brainstorming on that topic for this week’s newspaper column and came up with eight more, plus a … Continue reading →

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Getting around the BLT rule in Weight Watchers

Posted on January 16, 2014 by tischcaylor

Colleen was asking me the other day whether I’d stopped “counting” BLTs, which raised a perpetual conundrum among those of us who count Weight Watchers points: If you follow the BLT rule of recording every “bite, lick or taste” as … Continue reading →

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Digging out (of overindulgence)

Posted on December 26, 2013 by tischcaylor

So I did basically let myself go the last couple of days after weighing in Monday night, though I didn’t really strap the old feedbag on until last night. Unlike in my fat days, though, I’m not going to beat … Continue reading →

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Time to break out the infinite pie slice

Posted on November 27, 2013 by tischcaylor

I’ve been trying to decide whether to break out the infinite pie slice for Thanksgiving. Over the past year or so I’ve gotten away from some of those disciplinary diet tools on holidays and just enjoyed the day, figuring I’d … Continue reading →

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My new cake-and-ice cream strategy

Posted on October 16, 2013 by tischcaylor

I’ve finally figured out a safe way to indulge in birthday cake and ice cream. Frosting the girls’ birthday cake we took to Mom’s over the weekend,  I was surprised to find that the canned chocolate variety* we were using … Continue reading →

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An old habit resurfaces — with a new twist

Posted on October 2, 2013 by tischcaylor

I thought I’d conquered the pesky habit of nibbling on my kids’ leftover food years ago. After a fairly laborious retraining process, abandoned French fries and chicken nuggets no longer held much appeal. But now that my kids are eating healthier, … Continue reading →

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Candy locker makes Family Fun magazine

Posted on September 24, 2013 by tischcaylor

I figured one of the fun side effects of Cassie getting braces last week was that we could amuse ourselves in the waiting room by taking a peek at the current issue of Family Fun magazine, which includes an article … Continue reading →

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