Tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on CNBC there is a show called: One Nation, Overweight. Here’s a clip in case you are interested.
It’s spring and here in the south the weather is getting hotter by the day. It’s the time of year when I do a lot of spring cleaning, which I dislike a lot! Necessary but [...]
What do you think when you see a person jogging down the side of the road? I hope you think:
Good for them
I wish I could do that
Wow, they are fast
I wonder how far they go?
You know what I thought when I saw a jogger? I thought, “Go home. Get a life. What a waste of [...]
Added this morning: I forgot to mention that the show is on tomorrow, February 16th. Here’s a promo for the show – you can see me and lots of other people!! http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/tuesday-dr-oz
I returned from the trip to New York two days later than expected due to the huge blizzard in New York City. I got [...]
I originally told this story way back last March when no one knew about my blog. Everytime I come across this picture it makes me happy, so I thought I’d share the story with you who probably missed it. . .
It was extremely difficult to gain weight. Not the gaining weight part – that was [...]
A lot of sad things happened as I went from an average size 10 young woman to a morbidly obese “Oh no, nothing in this store fits me at all,” woman. Clothes became a tremendous problem, embarrassing moments happened by the boatload, and things I never gave a second thought to became a problem.
One such [...]
I’m so excited to see what 2010 has in store for all of us. Can you believe that it is December 31st? I feel as though this year has flown by for me. I never would have dreamed last January that so many exciting things would have taken place in my life.
Here’s a few of [...]
There’s this children’s book series, the first of which is If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. The book details what happens between a little boy and a mouse when the mouse appears in his life asking for a cookie. They quickly dissolve into bedlam, but have a lot of fun along the way. When [...]
We see a lot of articles from the news media about the rising tide of obesity. I saw this article recently that chronicled the increase in obesity since the economic downtown. It seems as though people are turning to cheap food thus causing obesity to rise even further. What was really interesting about this article [...]
At 300 pounds I didn’t really fit into social situations very well. I spilled over chairs. Got stuck in restaurant booths, and sat on the sidelines of life. As active members of our church John and I were involved in an adult class. Most of the other couples in our class had small children and [...]
Three hundred pounds is a lot of weight to carry around. I was tired, exhausted, and often felt disgusted with myself. When I finally started losing weight, one of the things I longed to see was the number “1″ in front of my weight. The last time I had seen 199 was at the beginning of [...]