A Little of This, Some of That

New Year's Resolutions. As a child we always made them, and promptly broke them. As a young adult, occasionally I made them, and stuck with them for a month or two before going along the by-way. The last several years I didn't bother. For the most part, I'm happy with my life so have not felt the need to make any drastic changes. Until  now. As you know, I've struggled with losing weight- as have many of you. I've tried one gimmick after another. Sound diets, such as Weight Watchers, May Clinic, Jenny Craig and not so sound ones like Medi-fast, Commit to be fit and many others. What was lacking is the will power to stay with it. I've thought about it and decided what has been lacking is a plan.  A written formulation of what I am exactly going to do and plan for it. Each. And. Every. Day. I'm going back to the Mayo Clinic Diet and will be starting over again on January 1. But in addition to the resolve of sticking with the plan, I've changed ...

In the never ending quest to loose weight, I am attempting something new. Since I last wrote, I was only able to loose 15 pounds and keep off 5.  Sad, but true. I decided to attempt something out of the box, for me anyway, and work to combine a few things into a plan I'm designing for me. To that end, I have searched the 'net and came across a program called IsAgenix.  After some debate I decided to purchase a 30 day supply. The IsAgenix plan, in a nutshell, is replace two meals with their protein dink 2X a day. You also take Ionix Supreme, snacks and a metabolism booster.  1 once a week you do a deep cleanse. Today is day one.  So this morning I took one Natural Accelerator- the metabolism booster.  No issue here- it is a capsule. Then I followed the directions and mixed up a 6 oz Ionix Supreme.  I have the 'natural fruit ' flavored.  It is the most foul tasting stuff I have ever had. Or so I thought. This was followed by IsaLean Shake. To...