tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32586732011-10-07T03:36:54.663-07:00<p>The online health/lifestyle journal of a woman who believes that what you think is as important as what you eat or how many miles you walk.</p> <p>Join me in my journey to discover the beauty in my own body and soul.</p>[anonymous]http://www.blogger.com/profile/15472443799429271105noreply@blogger.comBlogger2441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258673.post-1139031956143831672006-02-03T21:31:00.000-08:002007-04-04T11:42:00.006-07:00

Being RealAs I look back over the last week (and last month), I feel the need to sit myself down and have a heart-to-heart. What exactly is going one with this maybe-I'm-back and maybe-I'm-not action going on here?My brain would tell you a lot of stories and a lot of reasons for my half-hearted attempts. But that sentence contains the whole truth. It's not inside the stories, its the fact that

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I've Started, Sort OfMy life has been so crazy lately that I've not exactly followed through on my restart. I still haven't weighed in, but I've been eating right! I keep thinking I should just weigh in any day to have a starting number. The perfectionist in me (yes, she's still there) says to wait until next Monday. When I forget, it's the next Monday, and the next. If I don't weigh in next

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Did anyone else have the same week I had last week? Everything turned out A-ok in the end, but the journey was like a Fear Factor obstacle course. No bruises, no scrapes, nothing as serious as a broken bone, but BOY-o-BOY it was a tough time.Every day had its surprises for me. They were mostly the routine type of things that can go wrong, the kind of things that might happen once every five years

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Over the last few weeks, I've found that I'm watching myself. The closer I get to my official restart date (Monday!) the more watching I'm doing. It's hard to be objective about yourself, and its hard to see yourself the way that someone else can see you.What I'm trying to do it see myself as clearly as possible. I'm trying to assess how I'm doing with my current lifestyle. I'm measuring how much

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Hello everyone!It's been such a journey since my last post. I've been through some rough life changes, and I've arrived on the other side with my heart healing and growing again. I'm remembering how to dream again. Maybe sometime I'll share what's been up with me, but just know that I'm glad to be back here and ready to dig in again.Yep, dig back into creating that healthy lifestyle that I

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Week 57 It's a MIRACLE. You know, if you've been reading much of my blog, that my whole experience has been pretty incredible. Once I made up my mind I was going to change my lifestyle, things have flowed in a most amazing way for me. Sure, I've had plenty of challenges and some demons to wrestle. I've messed up, I've lost my direction from time to time, and I've gotten frustrated by my

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Week Unknown Hey, I'm doing better. I'm eating good foods, and a good variety. Tonight, for example, I had a lamp chop with kiwi/mint sauce, garlic mashed potatoes, and fresh steamed asparagus spears. For a snack, I had an all juice lime bar. I briefly considered rejoining Weight Watchers meetings, just to get me back on track for a while. I know where there are meetings in my new area, but

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Week Unknown I've got a confession I need to make. I've been binging all of last week, and I've got a weight gain. I've not posted the change to my weight chart yet. I gained 4.5 pounds last week. I'm amazed that I was able to gain so much so quickly, especially after staying at the same weight for so long. I've had a few hours to really get my mind around what has happened. Here's the

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Week ???? Well, look who stumbled across her blog today?! My wonderful life has been more active than even usual! This week, I got half of my teeth cleaned, got referred to a periodontist, decided to have a tooth extracted, realized plants were dying in my front yard, figured out the irrigation system, had a handyman over to work on a door situation, endured a fabulous sand storm, went

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Week 55 It's UNBELIEVABLE! I must admit, I did weigh myself once after I had started camping in the new place, and I wasn't surprised to learn that I had gained 2 pounds. I figured that with all of the fast food and easy preparation food I had to eat, that gaining a few pounds was inevitable. Of course, I was not excited about the idea that I might spent most of another month losing the

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Week 55 Water, Anyone? I am about to embark on a small side journey. A dear friend from Australia has recommended a book to me, and after checking it out a bit, I'm about to order it. Once it arrives, I'm going to start on this water program. The idea is that many of the symptoms of various "diseases" are actually symptoms of dehydration! I know that WW recommends a good deal of water.

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Week 54 Tomorrow Is Moving Day It's midnight and I just finished unloading the truck from today. Today was the last packing day. I filled up the truck with everything awkward, fragile, or just too important to lose for a few weeks in a box. Tomorrow at 8 am, the movers arrive. I don't know how long it will take to load things up, but I'm expecting to be here unloading sometime after lunch,

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Week 53 The Joys of Housekeeping I just came from Target where I purchased a Swiffer WetJet. My old place has carpeting everywhere, even the bathrooms! I hated that. The new place has tile everywhere except the bedrooms, and I love that. But I've been living here for over a week, and I figured it is time to clean the floors. So, without any market research, I picked up the Swiffer brand of

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Week 53 No Surprise Here Hello everyone! Well, after a week of eating out and eating things that don't have to be refridgerated, I've gained two pounds! I'm not discouraged, I understand why this has happened, and I know small gains are a fact of life, even for people at their goal weight. The only problem is that I still don't have a fridge, so I'm facing yet another week of the same

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Week 52 French Fries I used to love french fries. But honestly, in the last 15 months, I haven't missed them at all. Today, I slipped out for a fast food lunch, and they included fries in the bag, even though I hadn't ordered them. So what did I do? I ate most of them. And boy, were they delicious! I suppose that part of what made them taste so good is not having them for so long. I ate

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Week 52 My First Post From My New Home Well, I won't bore you with the details, but the move is probably going as well as any move can go. My monitor blew up / shorted out as soon I got it set up in its new office, and I'm having to backpeddle on the Internet because my high speed connection is not available today as promised. Things are going slowly, but steadily. I hope to be ready for the

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Week 51 Nervous I can't eat and I can't sleep! (Now, when have I ever said I couldn't eat before?) I go to sign the paperwork for my house in the morning. In fact, I have to leave the house in about 5 hours to get there on time. But do you think I can sleep tonight? Nope. And was I able to eat yesterday? Nope, except for a few bites of yogurt and a half a peanut butter sandwich. All I

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Week 51 Down More, But Not 20% I needed to lose 1.5 pounds this week to reach my 20% milestone, and I came up just short of it. So it will be another week before there is another towel picture. Or, more accurately, another 1/2 pound! I've had a sneak preview, so I know what to expect. I'm hoping that YOU will be shocked at the progress. I know I was. I've been managing to eat pretty well,

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Week 51 I'm Tired, But Hanging In There It's all of the crazy stuff in my life right now. Living amongst cardboard boxes. Trying to figure out what to pack last, and what boxes to take over first. Wondering if my new address labels are going to arrive. Wondering when to contact everyone with my new address (after the close of escrow -- which is a moving target at this point). My life is a

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Week 50 Big Mac Attack!! I'm remembering my promise to myself (not to mention how busy I am), so I'm just going to say that I spent a huge chunk of time today on the road between stops related to my move. Going home for dinner wasn't an option. Neither was taking the time to eat in a restaurant. So tonight, I had something I haven't had in a very long time. I had a Big Mac for dinner. I'm

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Week 50 Nothing New To Report I weighed myself so late last week (Saturday!!!) that there is no change today. Hey, I'll take no change over a gain any day! And I'm at 19.5% weight loss, so it is looking like NEXT WEEK is the new towel photo time! So tune in for that! After looking at the picture I posted yesterday, I decided that I should give you another shot of my face from the first week

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Week 50 50 / 50 Usually, 50/50 means that there is an even split, but today, to me, it means something very different. It's week 50, a nice milestone number, and I've recently lost more than 50 pounds! I'll have a new weight tomorrow morning (if I remember, that is!) but for now, I've lost 53 pounds as of late last week. I had a picture taken of me with visiting family about two weeks ago.

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Week 49 Good Times? This week, I've discovered that there are a lot of really good things happening in my life, but I'm not enjoying them. It's almost like I'm afraid to let go and really feel happy. Now, to be fair, what is happening is a real mixed bag -- there are many wonderful things, and a few tough things, all at the same time. It's not like I'm in a golden moment, a time when

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Week 49 Long Time, No Write! Hi everyone I made two promises to myself on Monday. First, I said that I would resume making posts here, even if they are very short. (It's almost Thursday, but I'm posting!) Second, I promised myself that I wasn't going to mention how busy I am. So don't ask me why I haven't been posting, ok? Last week, I weighed myself (it was a loss!) and updated my weight

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Week 47 Grateful For Small Changes Well, I've lost another half pound, and I'm a half pound from losing 50 pounds. I am grateful for another week of loss. With all of the physical things going on with me, and still working through some of the issues that came up around my illness last year, I'm spending a lot of time thinking about my body and body image. (Wow, that was a long kitty break!

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Week 47 Forgot to Weigh In Sorry that I don't have any news to report. I'm going to try to remember tomorrow! Apart from that, I do have a lot going on. I'm still househunting. In fact, I'm going to put in an offer on a house on Tuesday morning. It will be my third attempt... hopefully this one is a charm! If not, I'll be out looking at new homes again next week. Sigh. At least I enjoy

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Help! Blogger broke my last entry and won't let me back into it! So, I'm trying again! (Does anyone know how to delete a post that you can't edit???) Of course, they have changed the sign since the last time I attended a meeting there, almost a year ago! So it's not exactly how it was when I was there, but it's close enough for the scrapbook. I never saw the view with the desert

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Week 46 Stop The Presses!! I know, I weighed in yesterday. But this morning, I was downstairs, the scales were out, and I thought... "well, it is Monday..." so I stepped on. I've lost a pound since yesterday! So, I've reworked my weight chart to show the new loss. I really needed that boost, too. Last night, I went through a slump where I really got lost in that incomplete fulfillment

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Week 46 Another Loss! I knew that things would get back on track! I weighed myself a day early this week, hoping for good news. And since I got good news, I decided to keep this weigh-in amount for the week. It's only a pound, but hey, it's a whole pound in the right direction. I broke a tooth yesterday. My dentist died a couple of years ago, and I never found a new one. So now, with a

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Week 45 Lost Time & Gained Weight Sorry I haven't been here for a while. I've been distracted and busy. So what else is new? My scales miraculously started working again the next time I tried them. Unfortunately, they are now weighing heavy, either that or I've gained 1.5 pounds. I suspect that the scales are accurate. :-) I did weigh in on Monday, and today, when I went to update my

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Week 43 My Scales Are Broken!!! Yep, I went downstairs this morning, remembering that is it Monday weigh in, and I couldn't get my scales to work. Every time I tried (more than a dozen), I got an error. I moved it between every attempt. Sometimes, the error happens if the scales are not on perfectly level floor. I don't know what to think about this! So, here is my own assessment of how

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Week 42 Grateful For Small Things I know that I've said this before, but every time I visit the grocery, I feel so... ABUNDANT. There is nothing like the feeling of having good food choices around me. Nothing like knowing that I can cook, or I can microwave, or that there are low points treats just waiting for me to want them. I haven't wanted any today, but just KNOWING they are there makes

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Week 42 Hi gang! It seems that I barely have time for my blog these days. I'm busy, yes, but normal things take longer because of my knee/leg troubles. I'm getting some help with this, and I'm doing better. And I'm hopeful that the whole problem will soon be behind me. It's been giving me flashbacks to my illness last summer. I have been through a sort of refresher course of all of the big

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Week 41 I've lost 3 pounds! And it feels great!

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My Illness -- Part 1 I promised to write the whole story of what happened to me, so here it is. In early August, 2002, I had been working too many hours a week without a break since mid-January. I hadn't had a week off, and I had worked through most weekends. I was exhausted. So I wasn't surprised when I noticed that I wasn't feeling well. It seemed like the flu was coming on, just a

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Week 42 By Illness -- part 2! The infectious diseases doctor looked like a frumpy Harrison Ford, and he had a personality to match it. Every day he came and saw me, and checked on my progress. The surgeon and her assistant stopped to see me every day, also. They were shocked that I wasn't running a fever. In fact, over the first five days, it became obvious that I wasn't going to need

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Week 41 Keeping Busy and Healthy I can't believe it is already Friday night! This week has flown past. I've been eating well. I started to hit a snag mid-week because I was running out of groceries. As often as I complain about that, you would think that I either hate to go shopping or hate spending the money. Neither one is true. Lately, its been because of my knee that I put off any sort

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Week 41 I lost 1.5 pounds! Ah, this feels like the good old days! A Monday morning weigh in, and a weight loss!! On Friday, I did something impulsive -- I was in the neighborhood, so I stopped in to my favorite scrapbook store and picked up a few things. (I'm making a scrapbook of my life changes since I started my healhy lifestlye goal last year.) At the counter, there was the cutest

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Week 41 Another Milestone Hello everyone Sorry I haven't been out on the Internet this week. I've been working like crazy for my client, working on my book, and looking at house with my Realtor. It's been crazy over here! But not with my food. My food has been very good, and something very interesting happened. One night this week, I slid two slices of still frozen pizza into the oven,

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Week 40 YAHOO!!! I've lost another pound. OK, that's only one pound in two weeks, but hey, it's movement in the right direction! I spoke this afternoon with someone I used to work with, someone who didn't know about my medical problems last year. I ended up telling her the story. Boy, what really hit me is what a dramatic story it is to tell someone. I made up my mind a long time ago that I

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Week 40 Off To A Great Start I'm so glad that I took last week off. I ate really well, and I expect to find good news at my weigh in tomorrow. Sometimes, it is good to take a step back, enjoy your successes, and stop trying to measure every single bit of progress. The scales aren't running my goal. In fact, my goal for creating a healthy lifestyle can't be measured with the scales. All that

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Week 39 Doing Better Ya can't keep a detrmined gal down! I realized over the last few days that more than my food is grating on me. I've got some upset over some other issues in my life, and that upset seems to be spilling over into the food area. I'm working on resolving the REAL problem so hopefully the overflow issues will take care of themselves. Food has been better the rest of the week

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Week 39 My Week Is Off To A Bad Start I know that some of you stop by here looking for encouragement, but today, I don't think I have any to offer. Unless you are encouraged by my honest accounts of how I totally blew off yesterday. I forgot to weigh myself first thing in the morning, so about mid-afternoon, I thought I would step on the scales. If the number had been good, I probably would

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Week 39 More Confessions Well, even after publicly admitting what I was up to, I still didn't fly straight. I did sort through some of the cupboard, and some of the freezer, and I did make a small run to the grocery to pick up food I could fix on Saturday. So, I've managed to avoid a full-out disaster, but I still haven't done all that I could have done. At the same time, I did spend a lot of

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Week 38 Very Lazy About Food I'm here today to confess that I'm not doing everything right this week, and in fact, I'm in danger of blowing it because of my laziness. I'm hoping that this public confession will motivate me to change some things. But first, I need to talk about what is going on, and why I'm not doing all the right things. I've learned that understanding what is behind my

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Week 38 I Remembered! Wow. I've got some interesting news. I remembered to weigh myself this morning. I was pleased with the number, 230.5, which means I've lost 42 pounds. Now that I have some free time, I decided it was time to update my blog and weight chart. This is where things got really interesting. The last time I recorded my weight in my weight chart was in week 32. I don't

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Week 38 Redesign Progress I dont' have much to say tonight about my health, my eating, or my weight. I've spent the whole day sleeping off the flu and working on the site redesign. It was a beautiful day out, but the great thing about living in Phoenix -- there will be another one tomorrow! I am feeling much better today, and I am starting to like the new layout. I've got a lot of work ahead

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So Far... ...so good. I'm going to bed now, but I'll be working on smoothing out the design wrinkles later today. You know, I don't really LIKE what I've done, but I was so sick of what was here that I'm going to leave this up for a while.

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Week 37 Restless & Feeling Creative? Well, as you can see, I've got a lot of the redesign work done. Unfortunately, unless the design is complete, the site looks like crap. So bear with me... I'm actively working on fixing it up. I know what I'm trying to accomplish, but I don't know exactly how to make it happen. The joys of the learning curve. I've slept most of the last three days, and

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Week 37 Sick Day Today I totally gave into my cold or flu, whatever it is. I've slept most of the day, and am yawning, so I expect to sleep through the night. Mostly drank fluids today. Didn't weigh myself, either. Didn't work, didn't meet my friends at Barnes & Noble, either. Hoping that the sun is shining on me tomorrow!

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Week 37 Sniffling and Sneezing That's right. The edge of a head cold that I was feeling yesterday has turned into something full blown. I'm not sure if I have a cold or some version of the flu. I slept most of the day today, and only nibbled on food. I've been making a real effort to drink a lot of water because I know how easy it is to dehydrate when you are sick. I feel tired, and apart

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Week 37 (Year 2) Well, today was the first day of the second year of my personal project. I wanted to take some time during the day to recap what I'm doing and why I'm doing it, but my schedule was out of my control. So later this week, I'll spend an entry reviewing what I learned last year, and setting my course for the new year. But in the meantime, there are some great things to share with

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IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!! A year, almost to the day, after I started to lose weight, someone finally noticed! Of course, family and friends who know about my project have noticed, and I'm sure that other people have noticed and just not said anything. But yesterday afternoon, about 4 pm, I was talking with a neighbor who asked me if I had lost weight! When I said "Yes, about 50 pounds" he said

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Holiday Greetings I don't know if I'll be posting again this month, so I want to make sure to wish all of you a happy holiday season, and all of the best for the upcoming year. I'm still on my Weight Watchers program. I've found a bunch of recipes for holiday goodies at low points! I'm going to fix some of them while staying with my family, while they eat the high points stuff, that is! I

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Yet Another Quick Post I'm getting settled back into my life, slowly. I'm back on Weight Watchers, and doing OK. My scales got broken, somehow, and I have just replaced them. So I'll know soon how the weight loss is coming. The eating process is a bit challenging these days. Some of my old regulars just don't taste too good to me, so I'm looking for new foods to try to replace them. I've

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Another Quick Post Hello everyone. I'm back home, finally, after almost 2 months. I came home to plumbing problems... isn't it always something? But in spite of this, I must say that I'm feeling more relaxed now that I've been home a few days, and have actually driven my truck. I'm going to be fine. I've been worried about being able to do everything on my own, and now I know that I can do

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Quick Post Hello everyone. I'm packing my things to return home to Phoenix over the weekend. My recovery seems to be going through a setback, as I'm not able to get around very much at all, and seriously doubt that I will be able to drive my truck because it has a standard transmission and my weak leg is the clutch leg. We'll see what happens. Otherwise, I'm not counting points, although I'm

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Week 36 Taking Some Time Off Thanks to everyone who stopped by after my last post, who commented, and who sent me emails. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. I wish I could tell you that I've snapped out of it. I haven't. I weighed myself yesterday morning, and when the number was above the previous week, I didn't even consider it an official weigh-in. I'm taking some time off, a few days, a

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Week 35 I'm Sad I have struggled with my food this week. I've struggled with some grief this week. I miss my life back in Phoenix. I have things I want to change about my life in Phoenix, things that don't please me, things that don't help me. I have appreciated the help from my family these last almost two months, and I've enjoyed being with them. I'll miss them when I'm back in Phoenix,

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Week 35 I've Been A Little Bad I've managed to mostly switch off of the snacks sitting around my parents house, but I'm still not quite ON my program again. I'm counting points, and counting how far over I'm going each day. Which is a lot. But at least I'm eating mostly nutritious foods, and I'm still counting points. There have been some real struggles in my head, as I head to the snack

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Week 35 Weigh In :-( I gained 1.5 pounds this week, taking me right back where I was last week. I'm not discouraged, and in fact, I'm determined to do better. I had a talk about this situation with my Mom today, and told her that it would help me if she didn't keep offering snacks to me. I don't mind if she buys them and if they are in the house, even in plain sight. I don't mind if they eat

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Week 35 Iota Count My Blessings I've had an interesting week. I would estimate that I was 75% on track with my eating this week, and everything off track that I ate was from the Snack Heaven kitchen my Mom maintains. I really wanted to eat right. But what I learned about myself is that I don't resist temptation very well. Put me in a house with every conceivable snack food, and I'm going to

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Week 34 My Bad It's been a stressful few days, and I gave into it tonight and snacked out. Bad. Something like 15 points over. I'm not going to beat myself up over this, but I'm going to start tomorrow fresh, with my best dedication. I can do this. I can stay on my program and live with my parents at the same time. I know I can. I'm going to prove it to myself starting now. I'm also

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Week 34 Trying Something New I don't know what will come of it, but I'm trying the Think Yourself Thin project at iVillage. I'll be posting here how it is going. Let me know if you try it and we can compare notes. I lost 1.5 pounds this week, down to 226.5 this morning. More later!

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Week 33 Boy, Do I Want A Snack I can't sleep, so I'm up writing. Actually, what I want to be doing is eating... not because I'm hungry, and not because there is something I'm craving. I want a snack because there is a whole kitchen full of them just about 20 feet away from me. I want to snack because I'm tired, bored, and it's available. I'm writing here instead. I've said that I call my

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Week 33 Eating Well I'm officially back on my program starting this week, and althought it has not been my best week, I'm proud of my efforts. Like I suspected, once I had familiar foods around me, my appetite really shifted away from the snack foods to real foods. I've been over points every day this week, but at least it is because I've been eating nutritious foods instead of snack foods.

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Week 33 Grocery Shopping This afternoon, I made a huge grocery list and my Dad took me shopping. It's amazing how much more expensive fruit is here in the midwest... I guess I'm spoilt from being so close to California at home. Anyway, it was by far the most walking I've done at one time, and about 2/3 of the way through the store, I was limping and exhausted. But I made it, and I came home

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Getting Back on Track For several days now, I've been planning to resume my Weight Watchers program, only to have a few challenging days in a row. I wouldn't call them BAD days... not compared to what I've been through. Just challenging. So, unless something unexpected happens, I'm planning to resume starting Monday. A fresh start on the first day of the week. Seems like a good plan. But I

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Age Is A State of Mind One really funny thing happened while I was sick. My Mom and I found lots of things to have belly laughs about, after all, laughter is the best medicine (at least that is what I learned from Reader's Digest as a kid). Before my mom arrived, I told my friend a bit about my mom, how fiesty she is, and I mentioned that she is 73 years old. So, after she had been here for a

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What is Important In Life I promise to write more about my story later, but there is one gem, one thing that means a great deal to me, that I want to write tonight. The day before I left the hospital, I had to go down to radiology to have a pick line put in. It's like a permanent IV located on the upper arm. They actually use an ultrasound machine to slide a tube into a vein towards your

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Sick of Being Sick I'm having a hard time being patient with myself. I'm not a very good sick person. I'm usually so busy and so productive and so full of new ideas that this whole thing of laying around, being too tired to do much more than sleep, and not even feeling like talking with people is really frustrating me. To make it worse, my Dad is starting to complain that I'm napping too much

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Pushing Myself, Maybe Too Much On Sunday, I was walking laps inside my parent's house which got really boring. I don't like a treadmill -- I like to get out and walk the streets of my neighborhood. So, I decided that I would take a walk around my parent's house. I ended up walking around the block, which I found out later was just under one mile. Way too far for my first real walk. About 2/3

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Chapter 3 Thanks for bearing with me. I am trying to pull the story together and I've noticed that I'm not telling it in chronological order. If I repeat myself, I'm sorry. I'm trying to be expedient, but I'm not fully myself these days. In the midst of waiting for the muscle relaxers to work, my friend Christine, the massage therapist who was working on me, recommended another doctor that

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Chapter 2 In the middle of August, I was feeling tired and knew something was off. I thought I needed rest. What was actually wrong with me didn't make itself obvious for quite a long time, so there was a series of explorations and, quite honestly, missteps in treating me, causing the delays that actually put my life in danger. I want to tell the story, but I want more than anything to tell

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Chapter 1 My story is very long and my energy level is still very low, so I'm going to try to post bits of it every few days. First, let me say that the 8 months or so I spent on Weight Watchers improving my overall health has been a big factor in my nearly miraculous recovery. At one point, while in the hospital, I had lost another 15 pounds, but that was due to the illness and surgery. I

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What's Up Hello cyber friends and visitors. I've not posted because I've been very sick. I've been in the hospital and I nearly died two weeks ago. I'm doing much better, I've glad to be alive and have have home health care nurses here in and out all day. My mom in Ohio dropped everything to come out and take care of me. My illness is NOT related to my dieting. I'm exhausted writing just

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Week 32 One Sick Puppy Yup, that's me. I'm sick, have been since the weekend. Nothing serious, mostly it is like the flu with a low grade fever, with some other symptoms just to keep things interesting. I've been thinking that I should go swimming tomorrow afternoon, mostly to get the creaks out of my body by floating in the water. The bathtub just isn't deep enough! And in Phoenix, this

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Week 32 Extremely Optimistic! Those of you who are struggling through personal changes, whether you are working to lose weight, quit smoking, or any other personal improvement project, you know how discouraging it can be to go through a time of setbacks. I'm feeling very happy today, not just because of my weigh loss yesterday. This morning, my normal weigh-in day, I went into the kitchen and

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Week 32 WONDERFUL NEWS: I'VE LOST AGAIN! I wasn't planning to weigh myself until tomorrow, but I thought that I would check and see what direction things are going today, and I got such good news that I decided to make it official. After 5 weeks of floundering, of weight gains and lost focus, and even before I had really sat down to think all of this through -- I've got a 1.5 pound weigh loss

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Week 31 Taking This Very Seriously I still seem to be in a plateau, and I sense that I'm doing/not doing things that are contributing to it. This is more than just a normal physical phase I'm going through -- it's involving my thoughts and emotions. Like I said in an earlier post, I seem to have lost my focus. I've lost my appetite, too. I'm not eating nearly enough. Isn't that strange?

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Week 31 Stages of Change Well, I am a bit low on points, but overall, its' been a good food day. I don't feel like my focus is back, but then, I'm not so worried about how I feel. As long as I act according to the plan, the feelings will eventually come around. Feelings come and go, but action is where a lifestyle happens. Healthy actions = healthy lifestyle, even when things are in a slump.

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Week 31 Starting To Figure It Out After two consecutive weeks with gains, I'm very pleased to announce that I've gained 0 pounds this week! I've also lost 0 pounds this week. And I'm happy about it. It's been a month now since I've had a weight loss, and I can tell you, something is very different these last weeks. It's not just the results, something in my thinking is also different. I've

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Week 31 Dieting News I've just been out reading at Big Fat Blog, and boy, do they have some interesting articles. If you haven't been there, or haven't been there for a while, I think you will enjoy your reading time.

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Week 30 A Reward Idea I'm going to spill the beans... I've got an idea for a new reward for when I reach my goal. It's something that I have honestly never considered doing before, and in fact, it is something that I used to think only, ahem, rednecks did. (I'm sorry if my use of such a term offends someone!) I'm considering getting a tattoo on my bod, a small piece of body art in a place

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Week 30 Catching Up It's late, but I want to post just a few things: Veggie burgers -- YUM! I loved them... I only have 1 pattie left and plan to eat that one tomorrow. I'm going to try the other brands recommended by visitors, but even these Gardenburger Mushroom I loved. Today's points: way below again. If you read here, you know that I have spent plenty of time wanting to eat more, but

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Week 30 What I'm Learning This has been an interesting week thanks to the things I'm learning about my eating from my online Weight Watchers journal. Well, maybe just one big thing: I'm not eating enough. Every day this week, I've had 7 or more points left over at the end of the day, some days as high as 10 or more. What's up with this? And have I always been under points? I suspect that

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Week 30 Surprise -- Bad News When I weighed in the last time, after my bad Sunday, I had a problem with the place where I record my weight. So I couldn't actually record it then. I thought I knew what I was talking about when I said I had a zero loss. In reality, it turns out that I had a 1.5 pound gain. And today, when I weighed myself, I had another 1/2 pound gain. I'm surprised. Not so

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Week 30 Wonderful New Recipe I eat a lot of chicken. And this week, I found a new recipe at the Weight Watchers site that involved chicken with two of my favorite things: tequila and jalapenos. I've modified the recipe only slightly. It was so delicious, I'm glad that I made enough for another meal. Tequila & Jalapeno Chicken Salad Adapted from a recipe found on the Weight Watcher's website

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Week 30 Oh, The Pressure I'm sneaking a break online when I should be doing client work. It is so funny to feel like I'm sneaking, since I'm working from my home office, wearing PJs, and haven't been out of the house for two days. It is just the overwhelming sense that I have DEADLINES and that I'm behind... it makes me feel like I don't deserve to take 30 minutes out of my day to read the

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Week 30 Trying New Things It was an interesting week last week, and it is shaping up to be another interesting week this week, but for a different reason. Last week, I ended up eating out A LOT. For someone who hasn't been eating out, not even once a week, I did a tour de force on Phoenix restaurants last week. I made good choices, had some challenges (garlic bread!) and generally had a great

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Week 30 Adjusting To e-Tools So far, my experiment with the Weight Watchers e-tools has been interesting, and successful. Some day, I haven't kept the journal, either because it was too much work or because I had eaten out and didn't have an exact point count for my meal. It's taking a while to get my regular foods entered into my journal, but I've been pleasantly surprised at the number of

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Week 30 My Body Feels Different The last week, I've been experiencing the most unusual sensations. Things that caught my attention, but that I couldn't figure out. My arms, my sides, even my hips, but mostly around my waist. And then, last night I got it -- I'm feeling thinner! But how exactly does "thinner" feel from the inside? I'll try to explain. When I twist from the waist, I no

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Week 29 Setting Goals As my regular visitors know, I've avoided setting goals for myself. I've really focused on the process of being healthy, and let the outcome work itself out. Except for my red towel goal, I've not set one for myself. I've not even set a goal weight, although I do have a general idea of the ballpark I expect to land in. I'm going to let my body work that out for me.

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Week 29 Eating Out -- A Lot! Since January, I've cooked nearly every meal I've eaten. It's been fun. But the last week, I've eaten out so many meals, sometime both lunch and dinner in the same day. My social life is quite busy right now, and I'm enjoying it. But I'm also make excellent meal choices in restaurants. Well, with one exception. I was at an Italian place last night, and the

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Week 29 What Wisdom Can I Find Inside Myself? I'm feeling pretty blah these days. There doesn't seem to be much going on inside my head, not much thoughtful living, just living. And I'm OK with that. I don't know why I'm so tired, either, but I've been napping a lot lately. My bad news from Sunday, the thing that triggered so much stress and was my excuse for binge snacking -- well, that

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Week 29 Bad Weekend -- Zero Loss I'm glad I don't have to do the true confession thing very often. Sunday was bad day for me, I got sort of laid off. It's hard to explain, being in a freelance situation, but the money tree I was on ordered me to stop working immediately. That doesn't happen very often. And I didn't take it very well. I had a combination of bad things line up: I was out of

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Week 28 Do I Miss The Foods I'm Not Eating? Today, my blog buddy and Goddess of the Jodiverse posted pictures of Krispie Kremes and invited everyone to help themselves. They did look delicious, and they reminded me of my many trips across town to one of the new Krispie Kremes that opened in Phoenix a couple years ago. I used to stop by once a month or so and pick up some of them, savoring them

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Week 28 I've lost 41.5 pounds! Adjusting With e-Tools You know those commercials where they flash the disclaimer messages at the bottom, things like "professional driver on closed course" and "do not attempt?" This log entry officially has one of those warning messages. And not because I'm about to do some X-treme dieting maneuvers. Becuase I'm about to confess that I don't follow all of

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Week 28 I've Done It For weeks now, I've been skipping my WW meeting, weighing myself in, and seeming to do just fine. I had thought I would return, if only to get a ribbon for losing 40 pounds and getting signed up on e-tools on the WW site. I didn't know what I was going to get around to this. But today, in my inbox, I got my regular email from WW and they are announcing a special deal for

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Week 28 A Bit of a Meringue On Saturday, I did indeed play hookey with my friend Kim. We went shopping, tried a fabulous new Mexican restaurant for lunch, and after some more shopping, came back here to watch two movies on my DVD player. Kim brought me a bit of a surprise -- a container of the Miss Meringue lemon cookies. What a treat they are! If you haven't tried them, and you like

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