I just keep learning things about myself. Like, nothing transports me to BingeVille quicker than an empty stomach and a sense of self-pity. To solve this, I eat small, balanced meals throughout the day and very rarely let myself feel more than a slight hunger. So far, it’s worked for me even when I can’t [...]
Celebrating: 35 pounds (and 10% of starting weight) gone
Grateful for: my 2 wonderful dogs, so that I don’t wake up alone during a week like this.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 318.2
This week: 317.2
Change this week: -1.0
Total change: -37.4
Next milestone: 40 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: Every muscle I stretch (both figurative and literal) makes me stronger.
Many, many thanks to those who have commented or emailed in the past few days. Your words of encouragement have meant so much to me. I continue to nurture a clarity about this difficult decision and feel that it will all, eventually, be for my good. Several of you have emailed more than once and [...]
No one wants to talk about it, but I think that many people look at fat women differently when they have a boyfriend or husband than when they are single.
Maybe that’s unfair (gross generalization, anyone?) but since becoming involved with my first boyfriend 2 years ago, at the age of 31, I have noticed a [...]
Celebrating: 35 pounds gone (and 30 pounds gone, too)
Grateful for: alternative coping mechanisms
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 326.4
This week: 318.2
Change this week: -8.2
Total change: -36.4
Next milestone: 40 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: Stay on target. It’s going to be a rough week.
Celebrating: 25 pounds gone (still)
Grateful for: losing a little weight, even though the dreaded PMS has yet to deliver on its promises.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 329.2
This week: 326.4
Change this week: -2.8
Total change: -28.2
Next milestone: 30 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: Migraines cannot stop me.
I am NOT a girl who goes for cliches or trite sayings, and the weight-loss world (if there is such a thing) is full of them. My primary problem is that most of them seem so negative and belittling. I mean, consider exhibit A:
A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.
On the surface, [...]
Celebrating: 25 pounds gone
Grateful for: hormones that are thoughtful enough to peak on a semi-consistent basis.
Starting weight: 354.6 pounds
Last week: 327.4
This week: 329.2
Change this week: +1.8
Total change: -25.4
Next milestone: 30 pounds gone
This week’s mantra: It is the behavioral, not the numerical changes that matter from week to week.
Vickie, on a previous post, reminded me about the importance of momentum when you are working toward a goal. Then, she asked:
It sounds as if you are feeling empowered. do you feel that way???
I don’t know if I would have used the word “empowered” to describe this whole process so far. I would say that [...]
There was a time when a delivery like this would inspire awe and reverence in me; when I would have thought, “My very salvation has arrived.” In the past, I would look to a piece of equipment this large and powerful and assign to it all of my hopes and dreams for change. Here is [...]