I speak for women in general and myself in particular when I say that we’re not always very good at deciding what we want and going for it. I suspect that, for me, I don’t dare to be ambitious because the risk of failure is too high. There’s certainly an element of that in my [...]
12Jun10
Getting What I Want
10Mar10
The New Normal revisited
Mollie commented a couple of posts back: It must be why so many people who reach goal regain — because there is no “goal.” There is only “normal.” That got me thinking again about the fact that we’ve established a new normal and it’s FAT. I remember, way back in the 70′s, when the jeans [...]
22Jan10
Day 1 or Just Keeping On?
In life in general I love the idea of new beginnings, blank slates, amnesties, jubilee years – grace and forgiveness . When I decide to give myself one of those in my food/body struggles, it’s hard not to think of it as a whole new beginning. Over on BCB I’ve re-invented myself a few times, [...]
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Tagged diet accountability, goal weight, Last Ten Pounds
Tagged diet accountability, goal weight, Last Ten Pounds
28Nov09
What’s the Goal Here?
When I realised that I wanted to lose weight finally and forever, I had in my head the “goal” weight of 143lbs. I think it was based on the tricky scale-insanity based mathematical formula which states that the personal goal weight plus two pounds equals the WW goal weight which is equal to or lesser [...]
There was so much in this post over at BCB that I don’t want to let it drop. The main topic of conversation is basically, do we fail to lose weight and keep it off because we are afraid of success? Or at least afraid of what is on the “other side” of weight loss. [...]