Clean Bill of Health

My doctor could not find any lumps or asymmetry to match the results of the mammogram, so I was given a clean bill of heath. What a relief that was!This month has been so hard for my weight loss - my breast cancer scare, stress at work, and the one year anniversary of my brother in-law's death have been wearing on my willpower.Even through all this stress, I have been able to keep my weight

"Suspicious Mass"

I am waiting to find out if a mass in my breast is cancerous.I am hoping for a "false positive." I just wish I knew if I had it or not! Not knowing is nightmarish.I see my doctor again on Friday, but that doesn't mean I will find out anything. She might order more tests, and I will just continue to not know...Anyway!I got up early today and ran for 32 minutes on the elliptical

Same Site, New Name

"Jessica's Weight Loss Blog" will now be known as "Less Jess - Over 100 lbs lost!"In the past auto-links to my site couldn't cope with the apostrophe and it looked like this:"Jessica's Weight Loss Blog"How ugly!"Less Jess" matches my site's address, and the "Over 100 lbs lost!" should draw in new readers.This morning I got up early and did some circuit training.I went through my MP3s and

The “Out-to-Get-Me’s”

I used to think Cadbury mini eggs must have crack-cocaine in their shells because they were so addicting, but now I know the drug in them that had me hooked was sugar. Sugar really is a drug. What it does to the body is just as extreme as any other drug (rots teeth, diabetes, obesity and all of it’s complications... ) but sugar is in nearly everything we eat! From the cereals that starts our

March Recap.

I lost a total 3.50 pounds in March! (6.50 down so far in 2009.)I've really got back in the groove. I hope to keep this trend going this April.My husband wrote me version of the Calorie Calculator for my Blackberry Curve!The following is an extra geeky paragraph you can skip:He used Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) which provides a robust, flexible environment for applications running on