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Progress Photos and the Days In Between
Lyn, who writes the well-known blog Escape from Obesity, shared the following thought on Twitter a while back: Being fat is hard. Losing weight is hard. Maintaining is hard. Choose your hard. When I read that, I thought: This here is a not-so-pretty slice of truth. I still come back to that nugget of wisdom [...]
Rough Days
11. February 2010
Yesterday was a bad day. It just was. And for the first time in almost 5 months, I went “off-plan” with my eating and ordered and ate 2/3 of a big Mexican dinner. I wanted to eat the whole thing; guess I’m not as chompy as I used to be. Today I’ve been eating normally [...]
Is Boot Camp Like Childbirth?
4. February 2010
As I was driving to boot camp last night, I experienced an unspecified feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. I kept flashing back to my Challenge manifesto-of-sorts and thinking “Was I on crack at the time I posted that?” (Answer, for those interested: No.) My brain started doing the frantic cat-in-a-bag clawing [...]
Angles
18. January 2010
At different angles, my face can look totally different—something I learned while I was at my heaviest and attempting to take self-portraits. At very specific angles, my face didn’t look so fat. It was an optical illusion of sorts. Both of these pictures were taken today within minutes of each other: It’s all about angles. [...]
Night and Day (With Progress Picture)
16. January 2010
Last night everything felt pointless, boring, and tedious. Life felt devoid of purpose. I wanted a giant cupcake really badly because my emotions felt so intense and throughout my life I guess I got really used to soothing myself in such a way. It felt horrible not going to my old go-to, you know? I [...]
Believe It
29. November 2009
This weekend I picked up Biggest Loser Season 5 winner Ali Vincent’s memoir about her experience leading up to and including her time on the show. It’s called Believe It, Be It, and that mantra was actually the one she adopted as she gave it everything she had to win the contest that season. Not [...]
What Weight Loss Can and Can’t Do
9. November 2009
I experienced a honeymoon phase that started about two weeks in and lasted through Week 6 of my new weight-loss plan. I didn’t get too depressed about anything; in fact, I felt pretty great knowing I was finally turning things around with my weight, which has been out of hand for years. Sometimes, starting a [...]
The Swamp of Self-Doubt
6. November 2009
You can keep losing weight even when you feel totally unhinged. In the past two days I experienced a major mood slump that threw me totally off-kilter. I simultaneously contemplated eating my previous words and re-joining Weight Watchers, eating three tubular tacos from Hula Hut at a time, reinventing my entire life, and what the [...]
Weight-Loss Progress
Starting Weight: 203 lbs
Current Weight: 163.5 lbs (-39.5 lbs)
Goal Weight: 125 lbs
For more progress details, click here!
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10. March 2010
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