I can’t believe it’s been since the end of April that I posted. I guess I’ve been in denial and keeping myself busy so I didn’t have to think about this place or my problems. I’m doing okay. not great, but okay. I seem to have undone the damage I did to myself. I have [...]
I just returned from 5 wonderful days in Sedona, AZ. To be honest just before I left for vacation I thought to myself – I’ll try to be good, eat a lot of vegetables, drink a lot of water and do a lot of exercise. Well two outa three ain’t bad. There were only two [...]
The mind is a funny thing. When I started this journey I decided that I would make a rule that I would not weigh myself between meetings. I think that when people weigh themselves often, it messes with their mind. At least it did with me. If I weighted myself and I lost weight, I’d [...]
I’m struggling here. Over the past five months I’ve lost almost 30 lbs. But for the past six weeks I’ve struggled, well really I’ve struggled for my entire life…from the age of 8 on up. I start to feel bad but then try to remember that I’m at least going the right direction, if you [...]
I live in Northern California. I’ve lived here all my life except for two years living in New York. I moved to New York in September 2001. It’s easy to remember exactly when I moved because of the tragedy of the twin towers. On that awful day my life was in boxes and in less [...]
At one point in my life food, like the beast, was my friend. When I was very young I was thin. Not stick skinny, just thin like a girl who ate normally and was active, riding my bike, running around the neighborhood, playing games and just living a normal life. Then the beast arrived. I [...]
Yesterday at my weekly weigh-in I hit a milestone – 25 lbs gone. To be honest I wasn’t expecting it at all. With my recent medical problems my weight loss efforts have been hampered. But last week I lost over 7 lbs and yesterday 1.6, which brings me to the 25 lb loss. When I [...]
I just went back to check my blog and I totally forgot I wrote about my upcoming medical tests. I was scared silly. The upshot is that I’m going to be just fine For the past few weeks I’ve had some health problems and I’ve come to realize just how much difficulties in our lives [...]
When I first decided to unleash my deep dark secrets on this blob I was pretty clear that my beast was related to my weight and all the problems associated with it. It seems I have at least more than one. I’m coming to understand that everyone has a few beasts that are threatening their [...]
Now I know why they call it falling off the wagon. Looking back over the last few weeks I feel as if I had no control, like I lost my footing and fell out of a nice comfy wagon. The road was hard and I bounced once or twice then found myself sitting alone on [...]