Today I received an inspirational text.  It said, “Mistakes are a fact of life.  It is the response to the error that counts.” I can extrapolate to mean.  Mistakes are a fact of diets, especially for those of us who struggle with eating disorders.   It is so simple to take a bit more food, or [...]

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Today I took my first scuba class.  Taking scuba lessons was one of my weight loss goals, and I have earned it!   As soon as I get the picture of me grinning like a fool underwater I will share it with all of you.  I need weight loss goals that keep me motivated.  They have [...]

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I appear to have hit a plateua.  For the last 4 Mondays I have weighed approximately the same amount (within 1 1/2 pound either up or down), so I am running about 257.2 – 259.2.  Needless to say when I got on the scale today I completely freaked out and would have eaten it for [...]

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I wrote yesterday that control is an illusion, and in the big picture it is.  I have to learn to make healthy food choices in all places and at all times.  That doesn’t mean I can’t splurge now and then, but that has to be a educated choice to splurge, not a reaction to what [...]

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Wow…me writing about exercise.   Who would have thought?  Actually I am not going to start off on a high note with this new category.  Today was a work-out day for me at the gym.  I have three sets a week of different types of exercise.  Pull Exercises and Abs, Push Exercises and Abs, Leg Exercises [...]

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My afternoon in the lair of the beast.  She hooked me up to her electrical device She forced me to work out on her instruments of pain She beat me with a big blue tube and jumped up and down on me OK…What she really did was take my body fat percentage using electrical impedence [...]

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Say a prayer for me… I made and appointment with the Beast today for next Tuesday.  Not to weigh in, not to talk food plan, to work out.  She has me for a full hour.  Just the Beast, the machines and me for 60 minutes.  I am already checking into the cost of those wheelchairs [...]

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Everything I need to know I learned from a Healthy Diet:  Don’t take everything, take just enough – I don’t have to have all the toys, all the gadgets, all the friends, all the attention, all the assignments, all the responsibility, all the drama or all the potato salad.  I just have to have enough [...]

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I weighed myself yesterday, and to put it mildly…one was not amused.   Now before I announce the number, there will be no screaming or hitting.  The scale showed a 1.2 pound loss.  I know I am supposed to thank the powers that be that it was a loss, and probably closer to what I will [...]

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Yesterday someone said to me “I really enjoy your blog, but I stopped reading it because you don’t have the same food issues as me.” Really? I’m a compulsive overeater – so I have the eating disorder covered.  I’m addicted to carbs, so the whole addiction thing is pretty much covered.  I have/had a Vitamin [...]

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