Tiny Glow

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 [...]

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The Cost of Weight Loss

Remember this shirt? Well, it’s getting loose on me. When I first bought it, the blouse was nicely fitted (see pic!), but it is starting to hang on me just a bit.  It’s a nice problem to have. . . . I just wish I had the funds to immediately replace it and the rest [...]

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Guess What? You Don’t Need Motivation

Back during some of my less successful weight-loss attempts, I used to beat myself up for not feeling motivated. I would wake up, not feel like eating right or exercising, proceed to berate myself internally for not feeling like doing these things, and then (surprise?) not do them. But it turned out I was misguided. [...]

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10 Things I Love

Thanks to Josie for tagging me to play the Happy 101 game! The object of this exercise is to list 10 things (as opposed to people—so no listing family and friends) that make me happy, and since this is a weight-loss blog, I’m going to primarily foucs on things involved in that area of my [...]

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Little Good Signs

At 18 lbs down from my heaviest weight with another 60 lbs still to go, I find that my weight loss doesn’t seem to be noticeable to most people I see almost every day. However, in the past few days there have been some little good signs that positive changes really are taking place. Sunday [...]

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