This is why I can’t cut out carbs all together. I sware this is what goes on in my head whenever I’ve gone on any of those “Don’t Even THINK About Eating Carbs” diets. Literally, “I want coooookie!”

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Continue reading → This is what goes on in my head whenever I go on a “No Carb” diet

A girlfriend and I were having lunch yesterday, and as we looked over the lunch menu we took a moment to giggle, in a “I totally have been there too” kind of way, about how in our old weight obsessed…

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Continue reading → Before: The “fat” conversations in your head when looking over a menu

Continuing from Part 1: At some point you have to evolve One of the fastest ways to find out what you’re good at is to ask other people. Seems like a no-brainer but many women are afraid to ask others…

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Continue reading → BISJ Evolves Part 2 of 2: “You’re like a big sister I always wanted”

Sometimes the voice in my head sounds like Jedi master Yoda. A few months ago while trying to figure out the root cause of that wicked insomnia spell I had, this is what the wise one echoed, “Focus on your…

Continue reading → BISJ Evolves Part 1 of 2: At some point you have to evolve

In today’s video, I talk about what I’ve been doing to get back on track after the 6lb weight gain I mentioned last week because of the wicked insomnia spell I went through in March. I discovered the primary source…

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Continue reading → Weigh-in Wed: Rebounding from the insomnia weight gain

Wanna see a woman with some serious abs of steel? Workout Mommy has a cool interview with Tami, who shares her secret to getting that amazing six pack, “Abs are built in the kitchen.” You can do all the crunches…

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Continue reading → Random thoughts on skinny: So this is how you get rid of that muffin top

Am feeling cartoonish today. Doesn’t losing weight seem much simpler in diagram form? Now if I could just hit the sweet spot. What would your diagram look like? Thanks to Sister Skinny for the “begetables”

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Continue reading → Diagram: Weight Loss Theory

In this video, I demonstrate a really simple technique I learned that allows you to open up some dialog between you and your body. Your body has many answers, and if you ask the right questions, you’d be amazed as…

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Continue reading → Talk to your body: The simple strength test

Camy’s guest blog post about her new book and the pestering aunts who feel the need to point out all your fat flaws at family gatherings, got me thinking more about my own struggles of dealing with body image as…

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Continue reading → How not having the Asian skinny genes affected my body image

Captain’s log: 04022008 Final conclusion of 30-minute for 30-days walking experiment We are now at April and the end of my 30-day Great Walking Experiment, and I have to say that my experiment proved to be a mostly hilarious failure….

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Continue reading → Conclusion: The Great Walking Experiment of March 08

Last week, I mentioned that I was going to go “off the grid” for nearly five days to see just how much my Internet use and blogging was affecting this wicked case of insomnia I have been experiencing this month,…

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Continue reading → Part I of II: How over-interneting is like over-eating

Captain’s Log: 03212008 Day #18 of 30 Total Walk Time: 1hour 45 minutes I say Ye gads walking to the grocery store mainly because unless you live in a metro city with good public transportation, most of us in suburb…

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Continue reading → Walk Day #18: Ye gads! Walking to the grocery store

Captain’s Log: 03202008 Day #17 of 30 Total Walk Time: 15 minutes Ok, I only did 15 minutes but 15 is better than zero, no? I woke up in a major funk not just because of the insomnia thing but…

Continue reading → Walk Day #17: Dinners with the ex’s (Two of them)

I haven’t done a Weigh-In Wed video in awhile, so I thought now would be a good time to give everyone a status as to where I am 3 months into maintenance mode. My apartment is a little messy, but…

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Continue reading → Weigh-in Wed: #42 “3 months into maintenance mode”

The other day I was thinking more about the difference between “weight loss” and “weight management” after having to classify my blog for one of those blog directory thingies. Under “Health,” the typical subcategories are either diets or weight loss,…

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Captain’s Log: 03172008 Day #16 of 30 Total Walk Time: I think 20-ish minutes Confession time. The only walking I did yesterday was to my car and through Whole Foods to buy some grub. While there, I took a picture…

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Continue reading → Walk Day #16: Who can walk 30 minutes every day for the rest of their life?

Captain’s Log: 03132008 Day #12 of 30 Total Workout Time: 45 min @ 2:10pm You know those days when you don’t do a thing hair or makeup wise cause you’re feeling lazy, and then miraculously everyone tells you you look…

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Continue reading → Walk Day #12: When others think you look hot but you did nothing to glam up

I’ve been wanting to publish this post for almost 2 years now but haven’t mainly because I hadn’t figured out how to communicate my story without sounding like a victim, a bitter shrew, or a resentful killjoy, all of which…

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Continue reading → The real reason I left my career in tech

Captain’s Log: 03112008 Day #10 of 30 Total Walk Time: 55 minute @2:30pm I had lunch with a girlfriend who’s 6 months pregnant, and her 2 year old daughter. After a salad buffet at Fresh Choice we walked around the…

Continue reading → Wak Day #10: Skinny mannequins in the mall

I have a dirty little secret to admit. I record my exercise stats religiously, and I mean like I have a mild anxiety attack if I don’t have my little notebook to write down what I did during my workout…

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Continue reading → Are you obsessive about recording all your exercise stats?

There are so many things that they don’t teach you in college about life in the corporate world, and they really should because in some situations it’s like sending the puppies in with the sharks, rats, and snakes. One thing…

Continue reading → An unexpected reality of your career: Bitch, Slut, or Secretary

Captain’s log: 03102008 Day #8 of 30 Total Walk time 1 hour 45 minutes. How about going on a walk and seeing a 100 foot picture of David Beckham and his Johnson in his undies? I have to say that…

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Continue reading → Walk day #8: Someone upstairs is answering my prayers

This week, I’m going to share more information about my life in the Rat Race, and specifically more to the point of how my former career made me fat and live in very unhealthy ways, physically, mentally, and emotionally, and…

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Continue reading → How your job can make you fat and unhealthy

Captain’s Log: 03062008 Day #5 of 30 Total Workout time: 45 min @ 3:07pm Here is me taking a picture of me on the treadmill in front of the huge mirror in my apartment gym. There is something hilarious to…

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Continue reading → Walk Day #5: Walk on treadmill turned to jogging

Captain’s Log: 03052008 Total Walk Time: 41 min @ 2:27pm I saw this pigeon just hanging out on the edge of the bridge that over looks the lagoon near my apartment complex. For a moment, he had two other friends,…

Continue reading → Walk Day #4: Unbearable stillness of being

Captain’s Log: 03042008 Day #3 of 30 Total Walk Time: 31 minutes @ 8:52am Could you live on a street called Butte Court? I giggled in a 3rd grade boy kind of way when I saw this. All I could…

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Captain’s Log: 03032008 Day #2 0f 30. Total Walk Time: 58 minutes @4:15pm It’s only Day #2 and I’m feeling sore muscles in my thighs almost like I did the Thighmaster during a TV commercial break. It’s weird to me…

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Continue reading → Walking Day #2: Sore muscles in unexpected places

I like how Charlotte does these fitness experiments where she mixes things up. This is cool because let’s face it, you cannot do just one exercise or routine for the rest of your life as it would bore you to…

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Continue reading → The Great Walking Experiment: 30 Minutes every day for 30 Days

BlogHer is doing this awesome campaign called, “A Letter To My Body.” Of course, this subject is right up my alley, so I’m going to share my letter with all of you today. I encourage all of you to write…

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BlogHer is doing this awesome campaign called, “A Letter To My Body.” Of course, this subject is right up my alley, so I’m going to share my letter with all of you today. I encourage all of you to write…

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Continue reading → Letter To Your Body: What would you write?

I decided to give my scale a personality makeover (more in my head than anything) and replace the previous “bearer of bad news” persona with this new light hearted goofy personality with these cool INAnimate stickers that let you add…

Continue reading → Give your scale a personality

A reader asked me this the other day, so I thought I would share my answer with everyone, since I have a feeling that many of you are wondering the same thing. At the beginning of the year, I came…

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Okay, I may have thought Skinny Bitch was ridiculous, but I can appreciate some of the humor. So, if Back in Skinny Jeans were to do her own Skinny Bitch inspired books, this is what satirical fun I would have….

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Continue reading → Humor: Check out my cute and “Skinny Ass”

I’m going to try something new to see how it works out, but starting today, I am going to expand upon the subject of food and healthy eating by reviving my blog Noshtopia, “a splendid place for healthy tasty nibbles.”…

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Continue reading → Creating a healthier you through “eating wellness”

Over at Divine Caroline, they had an article about “The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Diets” and I agree that most on this list are ridiculous, but if I were to do the list, this is what my 10 would include….

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Today, I’m officially ending my “weight loss” journey and the focus on my body not only on this blog but in my own life. In my recent healing work, I’m learning to break the link between my body and who…

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Continue reading → Weigh-in Wed: #32 week “The final numbers and changing focus”

I thought I’d take a quickie to update you all on the Half Marathon on Feb. 3 I’m training for. I was using this training schedule from the Kaiser Permanente SF Half Marathon page, but I modified it some because…

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Continue reading → Update on my half marathon training: Feb. 3 Kaiser Permanente SF Half Marathon

“What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Last week, I came clean about having a bulimia relapse after the breakup of my 3-year relationship, the breakup…

Continue reading → Making your own “coming clean” confessions on your way to better health

The most important thing I’ve learned about healing is not giving up. It might take months, years, or even decades. I know that is hard to hear, but healing is really an on-going process filled with successes and setbacks.The key…

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Continue reading → Part III of III: Steph’s NYs Confession, “Calling All Angels”

Raise your hand if you have ever strived to be “The Perfect Girl.” Okay, I’d say most women at one point in their life or another went through some “perfect” phase where you either tried to be the perfect child,…

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Continue reading → Part II of III: Steph’s NYs Confession, “Perfect Girl”

To start off 2008, I would like to come clean about some things that have been weighing heavy on my heart behind the scenes here at Back in Skinny Jeans. Something that is very important to me is to walk…

Continue reading → Part I of III: Steph’s NY’s Confession, “That I Would Be Good”

I have created my first health/fitness goal for 2008, run the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon on Feb. 3. The decision to run this race came about in two fold. First, I am 3 pounds away from achieving my…

Continue reading → Steph’s new goal: Run Kaiser SF Half Marathon on Feb. 3 2008

More shedding this week! I dropped .6 pounds and .75 inches which means I am only 3 pounds and 2 inches away from my goal. Woo-hoo! Yipppeee! Last week, I dropped a big load 3.4 lbs because of cutting out…

Continue reading → Weigh-in Wed: #29 week “Staying focused”

My biggest beef about being an Apple shape are the back boobs you get when you gain too much weight, you know that bulge of fat that folds over over your back that looks like it could use a bra…

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Continue reading → Random thoughts on skinny: Back boobs be gone

One of the best gift’s you can give yourself this holiday is forgiveness. One of the leading drivers behind emotional eating is hurt. Now you may think that anger is what is really keeping you from forgiving that person who…

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Continue reading → Holiday Skinny Tip #8: Forgiveness. Let go of the grudge to stop feeding your hurt

Wowza! The plateau is definitely over. I dropped 3.4 lbs and 1.25 inches this week for an overall shedding of 21.4 pounds and 19.25 inches. I am only 3.6 pounds and 2.75 away from my 25 lb. weigh loss goal!…

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Continue reading → Weigh-in Wed: #28 week “3-1/2 lbs just fell off”

With all this delicious and decadent food that only comes once a year, is it possible to indulge without gaining that 8 pounds of bulge most people gain during the holidays? Absolutely! According to the dictionary, indulge means “To yield…

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Continue reading → Holiday Skinny Tip #7: Indulge without the bulge

Healing from anything whether it be physical, emotional, or spiritual is a process that takes time, and involves ups & downs. However, the down times can sometimes feel demoralizing and frustrating. In fact, there are times when you probably feel…

Continue reading → The healing curve: You may still be ahead even if it may feel like you’re going backwards

I’ve been learning more about sweeteners, and I was surprised to learn how many common ingredients you see on labels are derived from cornstarch. According to the Sugar Association, sweeteners created through cornstarch hydrolysis include: Dextrose Corn syrup Corn syrup…

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Continue reading → Are cornstarch based sweetners making it harder to get back in those skinny jeans?

It’s end of the year and many of you probably have racked up vacation time or maybe you have some sick time that you haven’t used. Do your waistline a favor and play hooky for the day. So, how can…

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Continue reading → Holiday Skinny Tip #6: Take a day and play hooky from work