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Does Obesity Isolate Us?

The word isolation has a lot of negative associations. The first one that came to my mind was that of isolating the sick from the well. The unhealthy from the healthy.
As my weight ballooned up from 200 to 250 and from 250 to 300 pounds I often found myself living in social isolation. True, I [...]

Top 10 Excuses

I really should have been a lawyer, because for every argument you have to prove your point, I have ten more that I’ll try and use to prove you wrong. Or at least I think I’m proving you wrong! I sometimes drive myself and my family crazy!
As I gained weight and gained weight, I tried [...]

Lessons From A Thin Friend

[Guess what? I was interviewed for Frito Lay's corporate blog! I'll be doing some guest blogging for them next month! Thanks Dave!]

Do you have a thin friend? I did. And she wasn’t just thin, but she was healthy. She was beautiful. She drove me crazy. That’s right, she drove me crazy. I met her right [...]

What’s Your Take On Hunger?

This is a question I ask about midway through the weight loss class I teach.
Say one positive thing about hunger . . .
After the laughter dies down, the participants get down to business. Is there anything positive you can say about hunger? I think there is. But before I tell you why I believe what [...]

Can You Keep Up That Exercise?

This is one of those posts that I hesitated to write, because I don’t want to step on any toes.
But step by step, I’m going forward. And the reason I wanted to write this post, was to get your opinions and thoughts on exercise. Not if you think it’s a good thing, because probably most [...]

Who Is That Woman?

There was a time, way back in the dark ages, where cameras didn’t provide instant results, but rather you had to take your film to the store, go back home, drive back to the store to pick up your pictures, and then gasp in horror at what the camera revealed. I remember sitting in the [...]

Have You Ever Given Up?

I’d given up on weight loss. I had resigned myself to being overweight for the rest of my life, and really tried to move forward. For a period of about 2 years, I didn’t actively diet, but rather actively gained weight. You see, gaining weight was easy for me, trying to lose weight was hard.
So [...]

Shopping Experience Gone Wrong

No matter what size you are, there are always shopping experiences that you wish you could erase from your mind. Male or female, fat or thin, sometimes it all goes wrong.
One of the many bad experiences that stands out in my mind was a shopping experience John and I had a few months after the [...]

How Big Am I – Really?

Has this ever happened to you? You are walking in the mall either by yourself or with a friend and you catch sight of yourself in a mirror? Are you sometimes astonished and wonder, “Who is that?” “How did I get like this?”
Like many women, I avoided the mirror, especially when I was fat. I [...]

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