Hi everyone! I got a sudden but violent desire to move this party to my own domain so that I could do more fun stuff with it, so please change your links and click over to http://www.turtleprogress.com/. All of my old posts and your previous comments have found a lovely new home there :).
I won’t [...]
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All 12-step programs incorporate sponsorship as a vital component of success in remaining abstinent, but I have yet to hear of sponsorship in the terms of weight-loss or more general fitness efforts. Although Overeaters Anonymous is a good fit for many who have struggled with addictive food behaviors, not everyone who wants to get healthy [...]
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A rip in the fabric of life
might show sparklers behind our eyes.
“Blessings are heavy, too,” she said;
I hope that I’m stronger in time.
In other words . . . I am determined that one day I will be equal to all the gifts that have been bestowed upon me. I wish the same for you! Every [...]
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When her grandmother dies and she is left truly alone in the world in her late teens, the only place Mikage Sakurai can fall asleep is on the floor of their home’s kitchen next to the comforting hum of the refrigerator. Yuichi Tanabe, a young man who had befriended her grandmother, reaches out to her [...]
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Lately the universe has hammered home to me the lesson that in order to succeed in any number of ventures, including weight loss, putting certain organizational strategies into place multiplies the chances of success.
Tidy Up.
How can you create a masterwork if you can’t even find your paintbrush? How can you plan a delicious new meal [...]
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At today’s Weight Watchers meeting I weighed in and was met with a loss of 2.0 lbs. Right on! I just have to keep on keepin’ on, know what I mean? I’ve long known that persistence is the true challenge in this endeavor.
During the meeting we all wrote what we plan to eat for Thanksgiving [...]
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, General Weight Loss, Mind and Emotions, Moving It, Weigh-ins | Tagged: advice, diet, dieting, dr. j, eating, exercism, fitness, food, gym, holidays, nutrition, obesity, paper plates, perception, weigh-in, weight loss, Weight Watchers | 8 Comments »
This weekend, I’ll be making a couple more steps in the direction of better health and fitness:
1. Checking out a nearby gym with John. It’s very new, very inexpensive/no fills, and may be just right for us.
2. Getting a workout by moving some more boxes out of my storage unit and into our garage.
3. Sticking [...]
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Riding the bus home from work in the already-dark yesterday evening, I felt extremely dejected. I feel much better now, but at the moment I was in the emotion, I felt like crap. I was staring out the bus window thinking morbid thoughts when a glimpse of the moon appeared between buildings and treetops.
It was [...]
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Ask and ye shall receive, my peeps! In a comment to my query about personal anchors yesterday, Goodwithcheese linked to the jewelry of Tarma, and now I’m infatuated with the symbolism of cairns and must have either a wristband or a pendant to help keep me balanced during the holiday season.
Cairns are piles of stones. [...]
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