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Video Post: Coping with Negative Emotions

In this video post, I talk about how I am handling episodes of depression and anxiety while on my weight-loss journey. Please share your own strategies in the comments!

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Is There a Difference Between Losing Weight and Changing Your Life?

Not everyone who could stand to drop a few pounds needs to completely change their life. If you are reasonably happy and fulfilled, if you are stimulated by and content with most aspects of your life and your health is good, you may be one of those people. You honestly just need to lose a few [...]

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Sometimes We Are Brave

Sometimes I act like a jerk and make a fool of myself, and the self-recrimination and mortification is so painful that it makes me ill with vicious self-loathing. Sometimes I behave rather badly. Sometimes I am confronted with my physical weakness. Sometimes I am lying face down in a pool of my own sweat on a [...]

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Night and Day (With Progress Picture)

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 [...]

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Losing a Pound (and My Sanity?)

It just doesn’t feel right to let a weigh-in day pass without a post, so although I don’t have lots to say tonight, here I am. I have been pretty quiet here on Tiny Glow lately, and in the past that would have meant I had fallen off the wagon, or strayed from the path, [...]

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Weight Loss for the Undeserving

Wow, posting my first progress picture was a blast! I can’t wait to post another one when I lose my next 20 lbs. It’s fun to think about what changes might be visible in my face and body by then. Plus, I’ll be halfway to my goal weight! It’s funny, but sometimes I have weird thoughts [...]

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The Swamp of Self-Doubt

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 bloody [...]

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