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Today I'd like to introduce you to Rose Rebecca: Staying Healthy In A World Full of Food.

Rosey Rebecca

Rose Rebecca is far from the overweight blog of someone who is trying to lose a large amount of weight [oops, that's me!!!], RR is rather a blog about someone who is trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle in this crazy world that offers us too much of what we don't need! [You know, the stuff that made the rest of us into the OM's of our generations - oh, yeah, OM's - Obese Mom's.]

RR's profile reads as follows:

"My Story

My name is Rebecca. I am a 23-year-old journalism major at the University of Albany, NY. I am originally from a suburb about 30 miles outside New York City. I have always loved good food. I used to follow silly diets that deprived me of the foods I loved. I worked out but never really loved working out. All of that changed when I began to read healthy living blogs.

My family has always had a serious obsession with good food. We plan vacations around restaurants we see on the Food Network and Travel Channel. We have driven miles and miles to eat at famous pizzerias. My father and brothers can discuss the cole slaw they had at a restaurant for hours. My family is basically a group of food snobs. I have always loved the excitement of eating out. Unfortunately, this obsession with food did not help my waistline.

I don’t think I was ever ridiculously overweight. I was a dancer all through high school and that kept my weight in check. I started to gain weight after high school. I met my boyfriend, Jeff, on my first day of college when I was 18. Jeff enjoyed eating out just as much as I did and we’d go to restaurants every time we saw each other. I was not worried about my weight at the time and pretty much ordered anything that sounded good on the menu. I also frequented fast food restaurants a lot! I gained at least 10 pounds in my first semester of college. In April 2006, I decided to give up fast food and soda completely. When Jeff and I ate out, I would load unsweetened iced tea with sugar and order dressing-free salads. By some miracle, this stupid diet worked and I brought my weight back down to 124 pounds. But I was miserable. It wasn’t long before I gave up my salad-only diet and the weight piled back on.

My weight fluctuated for the next couple years. I joined a gym in March 2007 to lose weight for a beach trip a friend and I were taking over the summer. Since we were going to the gym, we thought it was ok to continue ordering whatever we wanted at restaurants. Plus, healthy sounding menu items were deceiving. A caesar salad at the Cheesecake Factory contained nearly 1,000 calories and I had no idea at the time. Needless to say, I did not lose much weight and when we returned from our beach trip, I didn’t go back to the gym.

An attempt to lose weight in the beginning of 2008 fell flat as well. I was going to the gym and eating low-calorie, low -fat foods with horrible ingredients in them. By my 21st birthday in March, I was 5’2″ and weighed 137 pounds...

When I moved to Albany in January 2009 with Jeff, I was too stressed out with the move and school to worry about my weight. By April, I weighed more than 140 pounds and when I saw pictures from my 22nd birthday, I knew I had to change something.

In the beginning of May 2009, I made a promise to myself to start eating better. I somehow stumbled across Megan’s blog, Runner’s Kitchen. That’s where my love for healthy living blogs began. From Megan’s I found Caitlin’s, Meghann’s, and Jenna’s. They were so motivating and inspirational, I decided to start my own.


I fell in love with cooking and baking because I found so many amazing recipes on blogs. I come across so many healthy snack and dessert ideas. I learned the definition of the word moderation and cut ingredients like HFCS completely out of my diet. I stopped eating diet foods and started eating real foods. I have never been happier with my eating habits. I love what I am eating and I never feel bad when I splurge.

On June 9th 2009, I became a member of Gold’s Gym. Since it is located right outside my apartment complex, I walk there instead of drive. I’ve started taking pilates and spinning classes and even bought a bike.

Now, as I sit here on Thanksgiving Day in November 2009, I can proudly say that I’ve reached my happy weight. I have been maintaining a healthy weight of 112 pounds since August. I finally feel good about my body and I have your blogs and my own to thank for that. "


Rosey Rebecca is a fun journal-like blog that shows you how one young lady is making the proper and correct choices along her journey.

RR  is fun, hip and enjoyable. [For those of you from my generation, just think Gidget, That Girl!, with a little Mary Tyler Moore thrown in for good measure!]

Rosey Rebecca makes me smile. [And she gives me some fantastic ideas too!]