Posted on November 21, 2008 by Hilary
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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Posted on November 18, 2008 by Hilary
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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Posted on November 6, 2008 by Hilary
You know in Fight Club, when Ed Norton is a raging insomniac and keeps attending all these support groups for diseases he doesn’t have because the crying and hugging helps him sleep? And how at one of them he has a vision of his Power Animal, which turns out to be a penguin that is [...]
Filed under: Everything Else, General Weight Loss, Mind and Emotions | Tagged: counseling, diet, dieting, health, mental health, power animal, psychology, slow, therapy, turtles, weight loss, Weight Watchers | 6 Comments »
Posted on October 31, 2008 by Hilary
I created this site two weeks ago, titled it Liz Drops the Weight, and . . . have yet to lose a single pound. I haven’t even been trying. But the time is nigh!
Last night, after I decided to give the therapy a go (one individual and one group session per week, and my checkbook [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Hilary
I’m on my way out the door to the airport for a long weekend in Boston! Hope everyone has a great weekend and gets to enjoy a bit of nice fall weather. I’m looking forward to a small dose of New England autumn :).
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