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Progress Is Made When. . .

No matter where you are in your journey, you have already made progress. If you have been working on getting healthier for just one week you have made some progress. You may not have lost any weight yet, but you’ve made progress just by taking the first step towards working on your health.
I worked with [...]

Being Gentle With Yourself

I was thinking about the guilt and fear that I felt during my 10 years of obesity. I think what got me thinking about those feelings was looking at some family scrapbooks yesterday. I was looking at a scrapbook from the year before I lost all my weight, which was 1996. I realized that I [...]

Today Would You Please Thank A Friend?

I’ve talked before about friends who aren’t supportive of weight loss efforts, and how relationships can change for the worst after one person in the relationship makes a change in their appearance and lifestyle.
I realized that although that can be reality, there is another type of friend that I wanted to applaud, and that’s the [...]

Not So Jolly

I don’t know who said that fat people should be jolly but I’d like to have a little chat with them.
I wasn’t a jolly fat person. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I wasn’t happy go-lucky laughing my way through the embarrassing situations that often accompany morbid obesity. No, getting stuck in restaurant booths [...]

Healing the Past

Someone once asked me if weight loss was mainly a physical issue or an emotional issue. This is how I answered her question. I said:
In the ideal world, weight loss is mainly about taking in less calories than you burn. However, I’ve haven’t met too many people who don’t have a lot of emotional feelings [...]

Are You Afraid to Succeed?

For better or worse, fear is a part of our emotional make-up. If someone tells you they are never afraid they may be stretching the truth.
I’ll raise my hand right now and admit to being a worrier by nature. I work hard not to worry about things I can’t control, but it does take work. [...]

Fallouts of Weight Loss

I talked yesterday (3/29) about the fact that I didn’t feel as though I was losing things while I went from 300 pounds to 146 pounds, rather I felt as though I was gaining health, fitness, and improving my self-esteem.
In the midst of all the good things that happened there were some unfortunate consequences, or “fall-out” [...]

The Importance of Taking Time Out For You

If you are anything like I am – you are busy. Sometimes I can’t believe how much I have to do on a daily and weekly basis. Running the children places, schooling, cleaning, exercising, negotiating arguments between little boys, keeping up with friends, checking in on family members, etc. It makes me tired just thinking [...]

Are You Suffering From Post-Holiday Letdown?

It’s finally over – the major holiday season is past us. For many of us – myself included, avoiding the post-holiday letdown is an important part of our continued success. The whole months of November and December were spent either planning how to avoid forbidden delights, or planning how to include a taste of those delights [...]

Do You Have A Food Friend?

So do you? Have a food friend I mean? Is there someone in your life with whom you enjoy eating food? Or was there someone you enjoyed eating with before you started on your journey to get and stay healthy?
I had a food friend during my obese years. Actually I had several of them. The [...]

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