The unheralded arrival of my period this week, a full 8 days late, and the coinciding drop of 3+ pounds from my daily weight, have reminded me of some questions and thoughts that I’ve had for a long time regarding weight loss and gender.
I mean, I find it kind of amazing that, for 10 (or [...]
Meanwhile, after wishing for some happy medium between the super salty “dry roasted” almonds available for purchase, and the bland-but-meaty raw alternative, I found this recipe in my Eating Well magazine. Over the weekend, I made a version of delicious spiced almonds which is only very loosely based on that recipe. What can I say? [...]
Starting weight: 335.8
Last week: 313.8
This week: 313.5
Change this week: -0.3
Overall change: -22.3
Next milestone: 25 pounds gone
These past few weeks, I am considering myself lucky with maintaining my weight, give or take a pound, each week. This is not something that I anticipate will go on forever, but it is important to me for now to [...]
My psychiatrist friend is fond of musing, “Mal likes little things, like purses and dogs.”
Well, who can blame me?
I like to counter his wiley, psychological ways by stating that I’m living out an unfulfilled fantasy of being tiny myself. An as yet unfulfilled fantasy. But, I digress.
Last year, when I was getting really serious about [...]
Today I need to focus on the positive — on progress that I’ve made. Something happy. Something good.
Since I bought the awesome Overblown Scale, I have a bit overwhelmed by the ridiculous amount of information that is supposedly provided by the Innerscan™ Technology. Each morning, I dutifully fill in the cells on my fancy spreadsheet [...]
What could be more boring than reading someone else’s dreams? I mean, I’m a therapist, and I’m pretty good at dream interpretation, but still. Nothing could be more soporific than reading a dream.
Does that mean I won’t bother typing out last night’s imagery? No it does not. It just means that I’ll summarize it into [...]
Starting weight: 335.8
Last week: 312.7
This week: 313.7
Change this week: +1.0
Overall change: -22.1
Next milestone: 25 pounds gone
It’s official. I have posted my first gain of the year. No one will be too surprised by this, though — not only is it the week my period is supposed to start, but I have eaten out a lot. [...]
In other news which flies in the face of things I have been trying to think and do recently, my doctor told me this week that he thinks I am losing weight too slowly.
Excuse?
I had scheduled the appointment after reading about Hilly’s diagnosis of Pseudotumor Cerebri, because I experience many matching symptoms and I wanted [...]
This morning, I had a call from the potential new employer with the perfect job. It was not a “Come on in for a second interview” call, as I had hoped, but rather an “Our Training Director has decided to change the requirements for that new job and, because you’re not yet licensed, you no [...]
A small orchid garden sits above my kitchen sink, with half-a-dozen potted gifts from clients and friends. After all, who doesn’t love Trader Joe’s floral department for a last-minute present? The collection I’ve assembled is pretty broad in terms of color, size, and species — especially since I got them all for free.
Most of them [...]