Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Tag: Lisa Plan

  • Emotional Rescue

    The first time I gained a significant amount of weight, I taught night school, my first teaching job. I had been stressed as a student teacher, but it was nothing compared to how ill-equipped I was to handle night school. Many young people are made to go to night school as part of their punishment…

  • 15 @ 150

    Lisa’s plan calls for four mini-meals of 150 calories plus a normal dinner. People hate counting calories. I know I do. I wrote down everything I ate and what it cost in calories for years. I made recipes where I calculated out to the calorie how much a serving would “cost” me. That’s a lot…

  • Lisa Plan Over Easy

    Key parts to Lisa’s food plan (not a “diet” but a way of eating for life.) are mini-meals and exercise. Just trying to stay even is a struggle as we age. I had an early, surgical menopause, and then weight loss got really challenging. About the same time, I transitioned into many more writing hours…

  • Only Ever Book Collaboration

    I have this secret book project with my best friend, Lisa. Well, it’s not so secret anymore, because I’ve been talking about it a little bit online, because someone asked about Monday’s post, “So where’s the book?” and I can’t just not answer a question like that, especially as there IS a book. We wrote…