I’ve taken a few days off – mostly because I’ve got deadlines – but partly because I needed to stand back for a bit to get some perspective. I’m one of the few people I know who like installation art and one of my favourite installations is a collection of supposed fragments from a bombed [...]
26Jul10
Getting Perspective
Thanks to the weighing every day exercise, I’m now unmoved by the little ups and downs – but a lack of progress these past few weeks has really started to get to me. So I decided to look back at my most successful times of weight loss and do what I did then to get [...]
15Feb10
More Thoughts on Slow Dieting
What do you think of this article? For a long time, I wanted to be in the “Diets don’t work” club. I love the idea of telling everyone that I will never diet again – but I quickly learned that meant being fat forever. Hala El-Shafie says: Diets set you up to fail; they should [...]
12Feb10
In Praise of Slow Weight Loss
I’ve been thinking – wondering really – about why this time has been so different. Besides the writing, I think that the biggest difference has been a new “forever” mindset. I’m trying to think of a good analogy to explain what I mean. In all my previous attempts at weight loss, I was like a [...]
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Tagged attitude adjustment, slow dieting, slow weight loss
Tagged attitude adjustment, slow dieting, slow weight loss
2Nov09
22lbs in 22 months
This has been the weirdest weight loss effort of my life and, for that reason, I have hope that it weill be my last. Almost two years ago, after a sartorially uncomfortable Christmas, I knew I’d put on a little weight and said something like the following to my husband: “I think it’s time to [...]