Every year I think I’m going to savour the moments but every year Christmas goes by in such a blur that I can barely remember it. And every year, after two days of feasting I give the “That’s it! NO more food!” speech to myself then reach for the nearest baked goods. So is this [...]
24Dec09
Christmas Eve Blessings
Wishing everyone a Christmas full of blessings – love, laughter, feasting and gratitude.
Isn’t it? I can be a Scrooge and a Grinch all the way up until about now and then it seems to kick in. The tree smells lovely. The gingerbread house adds to the festive nose-feast. The only thing playing on i-tunes is my Christmas music. OK – I’ve got the Spirit. So how’s the [...]
21Dec09
Pizza v Pizza
The weekend was a lovely blur of socializing and Christmas shopping. We stayed at our favourite hotel – with the comfiest bed in the universe. Really. We had three dinners and one lunch with friends and caught up with fifteen people we hadn’t seen since summer. We shopped and I had a brainwave for the [...]
18Dec09
Checking In
It’s not as though I haven’t been thinking tons about what I’m doing and not doing – but the actual act of writing it all down has got lost in the tinsel, gingerbread and shopping lists. I’ve put on two pounds which may or may not be “real”. I need vegetables but can’t find them [...]
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Posted in Things to try, Thoughts on the Process
Tagged diet planning, stress and eating
Tagged diet planning, stress and eating
I wish I could go back. I miss it. I miss the excitement. I miss learning about what’s new. I miss the awesome feeling of starting out fresh and full of motivation. I miss the opportunity to find a new gadget or two just for kicks. I miss that first week of being on WW–the [...]
15Dec09
Those Miracle Weight Loss Ads
I caught the tail end of some news magazine tv show a week or so ago. You know the kind, something like 20/20 or Dateline. It was talking about the magazine and internet ads for weight loss. You know the ones I mean, it shows a before and after picture and the ad says something [...]
10Dec09
Change is…good?
Today is moving day at my office. My department is moving about 40 miles away, which means a commute where there didn’t used to be one. There are both positive and negative aspects to this. Negative is the time and cost of the commute. We’re talking 90 minutes to 2 hours a day, depending on [...]
9Dec09
“Take it Easy on Yourself”
My default mode for “taking it easy on myself” is to let myself eat what I want and sit around watching endless tv or burying myself in a book avoiding the responsibilities that are pressing in on all sides. Part of this Talking It Off process is resetting my default modes when it comes to [...]
9Dec09
Some Days It’s All Too Much
This, of course is just another phrase for discombobulation. At the end of October I wrote: The tidal motion of hormones is something I’d better get used to. When I take the time to pay attention to what’s going on with my body and my emotions then I come through the storms pretty much unscathed. [...]