Paula Wachowiak (ThunderThighs)

I am a woman...just past middle age (hardly ANYONE lives to 108) that has to lose a bunch of weight for myhealth and my emotional well being. Follow my journey and, if you have a moment in your busy life, cheer me on. I need it.

In the Spotlight

Ideal Protein - Week 8 - Food Rehab

This week I talk about returning to the envirnoment that will tempt me with culinary pleasures; my mother's ideal of beauty and how that affected me, and what I learned from my recent experiences.

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  Ideal Protein - Week 8 - Food Rehab

  11 years ago

  This week I talk about returning to the envirnoment that will tempt me with culinary pleasures; my mother's ideal of beauty and how that affected me, and what I learned from my recent experiences.

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  Ideal Protein Diet - Week 7 - It's All In My Mind

  11 years ago

  Once we understand that our own brains are sabotaging our bodies we can pull back and take stock of our choices. First we must choose to nurture ourselves with rest and pleasant activity. Only then will our minds get the idea that life is not a constant onslaught and maybe start remembering...

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  Ideal Protein Diet - Week 6 - Kicked Out of Ketosis

  11 years ago

  When you're on a low carb diet, ketosis is everything. One false move and you're back in carb withdrawal, curled into the fetal position, and wanting to quit. Beware of hidden carbs in medicines!

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  Ideal Protein Diet - Week 5 - You Can Teach an Old Broad New Tricks

  10 years ago

  When I was going to Weight Watchers I would have weighed in naked if I could. Who knows how much my cotton briefs and underwire bra weigh? The strategy was to get weighed in the first week with your jacket and shoes and then the next week barefoot...

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  Ideal Protein Diet - Week 4 - Zaftig

  11 years ago

  I went from hourglass shape to grandfather clock shape Early one morning of my forth week I put on my navy blue slacks and discover that I was not losing weight but I was getting shorter. I had always heard I would get shorter as I got older but I...

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  Ideal Protein Diet - Week Three - I'm Small Boned but Big Fatted

  11 years ago

  Check out the nails, compliments of two servings of sugar free Jell-O every day. I wrote down a quote recently, “A man who is beside himself despises nothing more than becoming the man he was.” Now that I am able to observe my old patterns of...

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  Ideal Protein Diet - Week Two - Eating to Live

  11 years ago

  I am not sure how much weight I lost this week but I seeing lots of evidence that this diet is working where others have failed. When I got up in the middle of the night to use the restroom…something you cannot avoid when you are drinking half a...

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  The Ideal Protein Diet - or How I survived on Space food

  11 years ago

  Products for Ideal Protein I am trying something drastic. My chiropractor, Dr. Rick recommended a radical diet called Ideal Protein. My “healthy eating” is not working and I shot up 8 lbs. since my last doctor’s appointment. Albert Einstein...

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  I'm a Slow Learner

  14 years ago

  Cat on caffeine I am a slow learner. For instance, it took me almost 40 years to understand the connection between drinking too much alcohol and throwing up. It took me until I was in my 40's to realize that sex does not lead to intimacy and that...