Posted on November 17, 2008 by Hilary
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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Posted on November 16, 2008 by Hilary
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 [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2008 by Hilary
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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Posted on November 10, 2008 by Hilary
I’ll be heading to my first weigh-in straight from work this evening, and right now I can honestly say I’m strangely relaxed about it. In previous Weight Watching incarnations, I was fraught with tension pre-weigh-in because I felt that if I hadn’t lost a certain amount of weight that week, it meant the whole effort [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2008 by Hilary
As demonstrated in Wednesday’s post, it had become painfully obvious that I needed a haircut. This morning, as one of my small steps toward fitness I decided to walk down to Birds Barbershop, which is only a little over a mile away. Still, I never would have thought of walking there even a week ago—despite [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Hilary
Why do people return time after time to a weight-loss program that they have not had long-term success with in the past? And why do some of us passionately defend these fall-back plans, despite the fact that we are paying the companies our hard-earned cash over and over again again? And again—this time for good, [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2008 by Hilary
I think it’s time for a haircut. This is what I woke up to today:
Earlier this week, MizFit asked the question: What question do you want your blog’s tagline to answer? Another way to think about this: What is your slogan? I mused on the fact that I have had various cynical mantras (“this is [...]
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