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 [...]
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 »
Posted on November 13, 2008 by Hilary
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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Posted on November 12, 2008 by Hilary
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. [...]
Filed under: Inspiration, Mind and Emotions | Tagged: cairn, diet, dieting, jewelry, obesity, Sarah Pogue, symbol, Tarma, weight loss, Weight Watchers, wellness | 6 Comments »
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 October 30, 2008 by Hilary
The reason I’m re-entering therapy this evening actually has only a little to do with my intent to lose weight. At the very least I can honestly say that my weight is only one part of the larger motivation to try once again to heal my thought patterns and emotions.
I won’t be rehashing my past [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2008 by Hilary
Hi! I’m Liz. The bare facts are that I’m 31 years old and 5′3 tall, and I weigh about 200 pounds (exact weight to be determined at weigh-in this weekend). I haven’t always been fat, but I have already spent several years at my current size. Informal survey says: there’s a lot to be said [...]
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