Tiny Glow

Holiday Cards and Planning Ahead

Behold, our Christmas card photos: Our incomes aren’t currently large enough to support buying gifts for all the family members we would like to acknowledge during the holidays, so last year, my boyfriend and I started the tradition of sending out a holiday card with a current photo in it to many of our relatives. Sometimes [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! As you can see, I enjoyed my Thanksgiving dinner! Time to get back to my standard eating plan, now. I’m a little nervous about facing Thanksgiving Meal #2 tomorrow, but my plan is to eat something healthy before we go and then partake only sparingly of the holiday meal since I’ll be counting calories [...]

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Anticipation and Inspiration

I’ve enacted one component of my Thanksgiving plan already by going above and beyond my usual Monday workout schedule. Today I rode my bike to work and also completed a lunchtime elliptical workout at my office gym. If the weather is nice enough to bicycle tomorrow and Wednesday, I’ll keep up this same routine on [...]

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My Thanksgiving Plan

Last year, Thanksgiving was the beginning of the end. I had followed Weight Watchers successfully for several weeks at that point, lost a bit of weight, and was hoping to keep that up throughout the holidays. But then Thanksgiving happened; or rather, I happened to Thanksgiving. Fast-forward a few months, and I was right back [...]

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