Well, then
Leave it to Vickie to smell trouble before I do. I think the general attitude was that because I was still weighing in every week, I was doing fine. Sure, I’d have a “good week” and then a “bad week” and then a “good week”… but, still. Overall, I was on track. After all — Kaizen, right? Then last week I caught myself eating more than I normally would. Look, it wasn’t anywhere NEAR a binge. Just, sort of, an acknowledgement that I was eating without asking if I was hungry or not. It was a realization that I had been eating fewer...
Read MoreCatching up
I haven’t been posting, but I have been weighing in for the past three weeks. 1/10/09: 283.2 1/17/09: 278.0 1/24/09: 283.0 Up and down. No progress, no backslide. Oy.
Read MoreKaizen, can I get an amen?
Still on the search for that elusive one-word descriptor for my 2009 focus. (Graciously, so is Vickie!) It’s funny how limiting language can be. For instance, in Spanish there is a word to describe the relationship between you and your sister-in-law’s sister. One single word: concuñada. I mean, even for the sister of my brother, I have to use a three-word hyphenate to describe our relationship: sister-in-law. But, in other languages (particularly languages that are used in areas where cultural values are different) describing important concepts is sometimes just, you know,...
Read MoreSingle steps
Welcome, new resolutes. If you have set a goal to have more health and less weight this year, you know that you are not alone. However, by making small changes, you can achieve success. I am living proof! I like the idea of setting an intention for the new year. I have already set my goals but I wanted to have something a bit more thematic. I wanted a short, simple word or a phrase to fall back on, when motivation and focus wane. (They will. They do.) I’ve been struggling, though, to settle on something. I love words and there are just so many to choose from! I also wanted it to be...
Read MoreNaked Saturday: 281.4 (-73.2)
Celebrating: New Year’s, and a fresh (if artificially imposed) start. Also celebrating: Losing 20% of my body weight in 2009. Grateful for: A blissfully uneventful procedure on Wednesday. Aside from trouble with the IV and a 3-hour wait on the gurney, after 6 pricks, 2 hematomas, and struggling to wake up from the general anesthesia just to sloppily demand, “But, do I get to go home this time?” all seems well. My duct injury and liver bile leak have healed better than they expected, they did NOT have to re-place a new stent on the duct, and I have been sent on my merry way...
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