I’ve been blogging now for almost 18 months. I’ve loved the community and support the blogging community has shown me. I was thinking about you all this evening. We are all on our own journeys. I’m not actively trying to lose weight, but I’m still on my life journey.
I was wondering how you answer the [...]
Why is it that I always tended to focus on all the things I was giving up when I tried to diet? I would complain to anyone who would listen about the fact that my current diet didn’t allow me to eat chocolate or chips. I would show them my little notebook full of forbidden [...]
Before I gained 150 pounds I assumed that people who were overweight were lazy. I know it’s bad that I thought that way and I am sorry I did. When I was morbidly obese other people assumed I was lazy. I know they did. There is a stigma associated with weight that is not associated [...]
I know it’s the weekend and I usually post something about my family or something that is going on in my life. And I may put that up tomorrow. But twice today I was confronted with something I see ALL THE TIME and for some reason it struck me wrong.
Here’s the first scenario:
I’m in the [...]
I’ve been thinking about the legacies we will leave behind when we have passed from this world. There is an elderly couple in our church who had 5 children. Those 5 children gave them 25 grandchildren. Those 25 grandchildren have given them 23 great-grandchildren, with several more on the way. She and her husband may not have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 other day I was thinking about my weight loss experience. I remember how it felt to buy smaller sized pants. I remember how great it was to sit in a chair without feeling like I was hanging over the sides. And I remember having a very hard time perceiving myself as others saw me.
I [...]
When I was at my highest weight of 305, I never completely gave up dieting. I’d be “content” for a while, but inevitably, I’d try some new eating plan in the hopes of losing weight once and for all. And the happy thing for me was that I could lose weight. I’d pretty easily drop [...]