I am now officially in the worst time of the year to lose weight.  Halloween followed by Thanksgiving followed by Christmas followed by New Years. It's my favorite eating time of the year.  My favorite foods.  And they're everywhere.  EVERYWHERE. So the following may surprise you. I will break through the milestone weight that keeps... Continue Reading →

Part of this process is getting in touch with your body.  When I'm at my heaviest I try not to feel my body, try not to think about my body.  As I exercise and watch my food I feel my body change.  I learn what feels good and what doesn't. So this past week I... Continue Reading →

It begins to sound like excuse making, even to me. Another week that did not move in the correct direction.  I know perfectly well not to get upset about a fluctuation of a half pound here or there.  For all intents and purposes this is remaining steady. But I thought I was headed in the... Continue Reading →

This is a tough week. Work is close to burying me at the moment and a variety of issues cropped up this week as well. My job, in fact, is one of the regular hurdles I need to clear in this weight loss effort.  I work in Youth Ministry and junk food is virtually unavoidable.... Continue Reading →

Yeah, baby! We made it to a milestone weight this week despite some additional weirdness and hurdles. Needless to say my eating was extremely limited early in the week following oral surgery.  The good news was that by the next day I had no swelling and no pain.  By the end of the week I... Continue Reading →

Not going to pretend that I'm proud of this post.  Because I'm not. I did not weigh in this week.  I was heading into oral surgery, my tooth was finally starting to bother me and that made food selection very limited.  So I ended up eating a lot of stuff that simply wasn't going to... Continue Reading →

Well there had to be an upside coming eventually. I keep thinking that this broken tooth thing was going to work for me as a weight loss tool. And the first two weeks were decidedly not so much. Finally this week I'm seeing the whole upside of being in pain when I eat. The reality... Continue Reading →

No I didn't forget. Two weeks on the road has put me WAAAAAY behind.  I'm only just getting caught up.  But I weighed in as per usual. I had some serious hopes for this week.  The week before I had split a molar.  Split it like a log apparently, right down to the nerve.  So... Continue Reading →

Exercise. I'm not really a fan of the word.  You see, I'm basically lazy and have been all of my life.  So the idea that I will take time from my schedule and dedicate it to sweaty, boring, repetitious activity just sounds like a dumb idea. But I gotta do it. I am not trying... Continue Reading →

I haven't spent a much time talking about the mechanisms for this weight loss process.  This may not interest anyone but hey, it's my blog, right?  🙂 This is a combination of exercise and diet change.  I learned years ago that "diets" were largely a prescription for failure.  They are artificial environments that aren't sustainable.... Continue Reading →