Celebrating: 25 pounds gone
Grateful for: making it through 2 weeks of family visits plus a holiday and still moving in the right direction.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 328.0
This week: 327.4
Change this week: -0.6
Total change: -27.2
Next milestone: 30 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: Steady as she goes.
When I decided to go back to Weight Watchers, I committed to myself that I would “shop around” for a meeting leader who wouldn’t make me want to gouge out my eyes with a bookmark and choke myself with a Points Finder ™. Since the WW “plan” is more of a guideline for me and [...]
I know from experience that it takes around 30-35 pounds before people start to notice that I’ve lost weight. So, it shouldn’t surprise me that several people have commented to me in the past week or so that I look like I have, well, en-small-ened myself a bit. No, it shouldn’t surprise me, but it [...]
Celebrating: 25 pounds gone
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 334.0
This week: 328.0
Change this week: -6.0
Total change: -26.6
Next milestone: 30 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: These are just numbers, in the grand scheme of things. These are not tools with which to beat myself up ten months down the line after my weight loss has slowed.
I went grocery shopping last weekend to stock the house with things other than take-out wrappers and chocolate chip cookies. In doing so, my goal was to have healthy meal options that were easy to prepare after a long day of work (oh, convenience, you are my downfall). I packed my shopping cart full of [...]
14″ for Locks of Love.
If you feel like you’ve been treated poorly because of your weight, you’re probably not wrong. When my local morning news reported that two studies on weight discrimination had been recently published, I did a little quick googling.
One of the studies reported a dramatic increase in workplace weight discrimination in the past decade alone [...]
As I’ve bumped health issues back to the forefront of my mind, I have also been trolling around through some of the old websites that I used to haunt. Some of our fellow bloggers have predictably fallen away, leaving only dead links and deleted sites. Others are still going strong, blogging day after day about [...]
The first person to ever mention weight-loss surgery to me was an endocrinologist. She was a lovely Jewish woman from New York and there we sat, staring at each other over my naked body, discussing my diagnosis of PCOS. 25 minutes earlier, instead of perusing the sticky gossip magazines, I had mentally calculated her age [...]
I may have mentioned this before, but in August of 2007, my therapist of 4+ years moved to a different state. She generously gave me several months of warning, and we spent those months dealing with my childish tantrums about her “leaving me.” Even though I’m a therapist, I do recognize that not everyone requires [...]