Several years ago, Joy Bauer started a segment for the TODAY show called “The Joy Fit Club.”  Membership into her club was limited to those people who had lost more than 100 pounds. Currently, there are over 100 members of in Joy’s club and ou [...]

Posted by Lisa Griffis • 12 days ago • View comments

The hour is early—well, at least it is for me.  The neighborhood birds are squawking louder than what I can sleep through. (Don’t those feathery creatures know that it isn’t even 5 a.m.?)   As I toss and turn trying to figure out a way to [...]

Posted by Lisa Griffis • 26 days ago • View comments

Summer time in the Midwest   I live in Cleveland.  And summer, my favorite season lasts only a few short months.  All I can do is think about how I am going to fit in all the warm weather things I love to do in such a short period of time; [...]

Posted by Lisa Griffis • 41 days ago • 1 Comment(s)

Seventy million Americans are overweight and I was one of those obese souls. At 340 pounds, I classified myself as pleasingly plump, but my doctors preferred the term morbidly obese. They urged me to have “the surgery,” but I turned a deaf ear to the [...]

Posted by Lisa Griffis • 55 days ago • 0 Comment(s)

Every time I think about my friend, Willa I get a lump in my throat because I wish I could have done more to help her.   Willa passed away over a year ago and I still have a hard ti [...]

Posted by Lisa Griffis • 69 days ago • 0 Comment(s)