I know that my posts lately have been less than cheerful, and less than full of positive weight loss joy, and I apologize for that. I’ve been a pretty miserable person over the past week, and it’s hard to spread sunshine in such a situation.
I’ve mentioned multiple times the fight that I’ve had with nausea due to the medication that my doctor put me on at my request. I’ve tried not to mention what the one that was making me sick was, but now I figure what the hell. My doctor actually started me on two medications. One that I don’t [ ... ]
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Nov 2008
I know that my posts lately have been less than cheerful, and less than full of positive weight loss joy, and I apologize for that. I’ve been a pretty miserable person over the past week, and it’s hard to spread sunshine in such a situation.
I’ve mentioned multiple times the fight that I’ve had with nausea due to the medication that my doctor put me on at my request. I’ve tried not to mention what the one that was making me sick was, but now I figure what the hell. My doctor actually started me on two medications. One that I don’t [ ... ]
Category: Health
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14
Nov 2008
Sherre recently tagged all of her readers with this meme. I was very moved by her answers, and so I thought it deserved some thought on my part. I will admit that coming up with the answers wasn’t easy. I had to take a long hard look at some of the decisions I’ve made over the years. Of course, what I would choose to say to my younger self could change tomorrow, but these are my answers from what I know today.
What would you say to your younger self 2, 5, 10, and 15 years ago?
2 years ago [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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14
Nov 2008
I just have to say thank you to all of the well wishes I’ve received from you guys. They’ve definitely helped lift my spirits. I’m still feeling a bit nauseous all of the time, but I’ve noticed that it seems to get worse the hungrier I get.
I talked to my doctor’s nurse earlier in the week, who relayed my message to him, and he wants me to try to hang on for a bit longer and see if it goes away before he tries me on something else. He actually put me on two different medications for two different issues, [ ... ]
Category: Food
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13
Nov 2008
I wrote a few days ago about how my doctor recently prescribed a new medication for me. I started taking it very early Sunday morning and ever since I’ve felt like about 13 shades of hell. 13 was a random number picked for the sole reason that it is a historically unlucky number and I know I’ve been feeling like a lot of shades of hell. Everything I’ve read about this medication has told me that this feeling will go away, but that it could take up to three months for that to happen. Ack! I don’t know if I’m [ ... ]
Category: Food, Health
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12
Nov 2008
“Ooohh Baby.”
Words honestly cannot express how FREAKING AWESOME the New Kids on the Block concert was Tuesday night. I’m still on a permanent high, I think. One that even coming to work hasn’t extinguished. I can honestly say that I think it was the best concert I’ve been to. The Matchbox Twenty/Alanis concert was good, but the only one that comes close was when I saw Little Texas, Tim McGraw, and BlackHawk in the 10th grade and the only reason that one comes close is because I adored BlackHawk and had front row center seats.
This concert was a little girl’s [ ... ]
Category: Books / Movies / Entertainment
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11
Nov 2008
“Up, up she goes.” I have that song that Kate Winslet sings at the end of Titanic stuck in my head. That Josephine flying machine song. Maybe that’s because I gained 2.4 pounds this week. I’ve been extremely nauseous the past few days, so I’ve been eating what I think I can keep down and when I feel I need to eat. I figure that was more important than trying to stick to a certain amount of points. I have a feeling this is going to be the norm until I get used to this new medicine.
On a happier note, [ ... ]
Category: Weigh-Ins
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06
Nov 2008
First, thank you to all who left such kind comments on my post from yesterday. I am glad to have met such wonderful people to share my journey with who understand what it’s like. You all are an inspiration to me. Thank you for reading my wild and crazy ramblings. I will admit I am definitely not the perfect daughter and living with my parents does tend to drive me insane from time to time, but I do the best I can. My doctor mentioned that I may have a bit of a higher level of anxiety than most people. Hmmm. Imagine that. [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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05
Nov 2008
Did I mention that it’s only SIX DAYS UNTIL MY NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK CONCERT?!?!? WHOOHOO!
Category: Books / Movies / Entertainment
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05
Nov 2008
It’s no wonder that I weighed 300+ pounds before I started this journey. It’s a total wonder that I didn’t weigh more.
While I’ve always acknowledged that food and eating has (and will always be) a compulsion for me, I never really believed that it was an emotional thing for me. I never remembered noticing that I would eat more when I was sad, unhappy, excited, or any of a variety of other emotions like some people can. Although, I did always admire those people who lost their appetites when they got upset.
I’ve been trying to pay closer attention [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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05
Nov 2008
Earlier today, just when I thought it was safe to go back to regularly scheduled weight loss programming, I got the news that Proposition 8 passed in California. I’ll admit it. I had hoped that it wouldn’t, but there you are. As you can imagine, to say that I am saddened by this would be one massive understatement.
I understand that some people think it’s “just plain wrong,” but I never understood how it could be considered a threat to “more traditional marriages.” How can someone else’s loving relationship have any impact whatsoever on your own?
As other, much smarter, pro-gay marriage [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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05
Nov 2008
While I was still floating on clouds from Obama’s win and drying my eyes from his acceptance speech, my friend Riley brought me back down to earth with this post that makes my heart ache. Not only for my friends and family who may be affected by these votes, but also for the state of basic human decency in this country. I still hold out hope for California.
Now, based on the vote tallies, I’m sure I’ll probably rile some people up with this post, but I hold very strong beliefs where these propositions/amendments are concerned and couldn’t let the opportunity pass without saying [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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04
Nov 2008
I am going to confine myself to only saying:
WHOOOHOOOOOOOOO!
Category: Uncategorized
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04
Nov 2008
Since I’m currently holding my breath while watching the election coverage, I thought this would be a good chance to update my blog. All I have to say at this point: Stupid Kansas People! ) Said with total love, of course.
I weighed in today and once again, I’m proof that miracles can happen. As I said, I did some pretty strenuous hiking on Saturday, but I don’t see how that could have balanced out all of the junk I ate. I was attacked again by that fun size candy bar monster, who was also joined by that little Papa [ ... ]
Category: Health, Weigh-Ins
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04
Nov 2008
Tonight’s post comes courtesy of two different files: The “I can do great and then turn around and do something incredibly stupid” file and the “People suck” file.
I can do great and then turn around and do something incredibly stupid
When I got in to work today, I had four important e-mails in my inbox. The first was from the Chief Operating Officer of my company. Apparently, another higher up that I had done work for last week complimented me to him and he wanted to congratulate me on doing a good job. He said, “He was particularly impressed [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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03
Nov 2008
I almost forgot to mention a non-scale victory that I had on Sunday. I was at Wal-Mart and had been longing for this skirt for forever, but they didn’t have it in my size – normally a 12 in skirts. They only had a 14 or a 10. I bypassed the 14 quickly as being too big (for some reason, I’ve always worn a smaller size in skirts than pants), and picked up the 10. I looked at it, laughed, and held it up against myself. My first instinct was “no way.” But then my mom said, “just try it [ ... ]
Category: Clothes
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