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For the past seven days, I have been following a very simple weight-loss plan. When I weighed on my bathroom scale this morning, it flashed 199.5 lbs up me. A 3.5-lb loss. It’s working.
Of course it is, but will I keep it up? I feel undeserving of my weight loss, in…
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My broken-down old car has been sitting in the driveway collecting pollen for almost an entire year. I was starting to view it as part of our landscaping, and had considered purchasing some plastic pink flamingos to festoon the yard and solidify the whole “look” I was unintentionally going…
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It started around lunchtime yesterday: the swooping nervous feeling in my stomach, the I-can’t-stand-this fluttering in my chest, the racing thoughts. I couldn’t think, I couldn’t breathe deeply, I just knew on a visceral level that I had to get away. The sickening sense of panic had been…
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Yesterday, I was engrossed in
Richard Simmons‘ website.
You know Richard Simmons. Sweatin’ to the Oldies, anyone?…
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Yesterday, I changed. I actually began an exercise routine I have been talking about for ages.
Change may be a process, a lifelong journey, a slow transformation—but we choose whether or not to change every day. One day at a time, in any number of small moments, we can decide to change.…
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Moderation versus Abstinence
The sane voices crying out in the wilderness often advocate moderation in all things (except perhaps crack-fueled orgies). I hear them, and I try. One “relaxed” day a week on the diet. Or a cheat meal. Or a cheat treat. Only it’s not called cheating,…
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I haven’t made significant progress with my weight loss in the last little while (ahem! 2 months?). I haven’t regained the 15 pounds I lost from my all-time highest weight in early November, but dammit I haven’t pushed forward either. The Turtle isn’t going down like that.
The…
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I quit Weight Watchers a few weeks ago. The whole affair was extremely anticlimactic. One Sunday not too long ago I woke up, realized I hadn’t been to a meeting in weeks and didn’t plan on attending any in the future. Almost simultaneously, it occurred to me that I was paying for the…
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Whether inhabiting the role of an after-hours clubbing brat or of a Phi Beta Kappa student at a top university, I’ve often felt like a spectator in life. In my late teens and early 20s I observed, I took mental notes, and when things got the scariest I told myself, “This will make a great…
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I’ve been yearning to lose weight for longer than most of the fetuses currently trolling the internet have been alive. Something clicked in my head quite recently at the random age of 31 years old: I now understand and truly believe that I can control my thoughts, and that by working…
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