When I was in high school, I was known to my closest friends as “Pessimistic Pam.” In our Winnie the Pooh fantasy, I was, inevitably, Eeyore. The nickname carried through into college, as well.
Lately, though, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about myself, my life, and the universe in general and I’ve realized something. I was never all that pessimistic. It wasn’t necessarily an act either, however.
In thinking tonight, I realized that while I always thought I was truly pessimistic, there was a part of me that, no matter how many times I’ve been crushed or slapped back down [ ... ]
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Aug 2010
When I was in high school, I was known to my closest friends as “Pessimistic Pam.” In our Winnie the Pooh fantasy, I was, inevitably, Eeyore. The nickname carried through into college, as well.
Lately, though, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about myself, my life, and the universe in general and I’ve realized something. I was never all that pessimistic. It wasn’t necessarily an act either, however.
In thinking tonight, I realized that while I always thought I was truly pessimistic, there was a part of me that, no matter how many times I’ve been crushed or slapped back down [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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10
Aug 2010
Hi folks! I’m sure most of you have heard of Jack Sh*t’s W.I.D.T.H. picture project by now. He asked us to tell “Why I Do This Here.” Or why we’re on the track to healthy-er living and/or why here online. He asked us to tell it in a picture or pictures.
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I finally submitted mine. I really really struggled with what to say. I have so so many reasons for being here and for being on this journey that it was hard to just pick one. So I settled on something [ ... ]
Category: Psychology
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10
Aug 2010
Today brings you a very exhausted (still not much sleep-ha understatement) Pamela, but a totally thrilled Pamela, as well. (Two Pamela’s for the price of one!)
I just weighed in and lost 6.3 pounds this week! WHOOHOO! Boy, do I have that yo-yo’ing on the scale thing down or what? Seriously though, I think I’m starting to learn how to listen to my body, because I didn’t track this week. I even had a couple of binges earlier in the week. I must have made up for it though!
I lost 9.3 pounds in the past month and even better is that [ ... ]
Category: Weigh-Ins
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09
Aug 2010
Well, it’s everyone’s favorite morning! Monday morning! Okay, that was a lame attempt at bringing a bit of cheer into this Monday morning.
It’s currently 10am. Yes, I am supposed to be sleeping. In fact, I should have been in bed about five hours ago. <SIGH>
Project “Get Pamela Some Sleep” didn’t go so well last week, unfortunately. There were two days in which I got about 10 hrs each, but the rest of the week seemed to follow my usual pattern. In fact, Thursday night, I only got about 3 1/2 hrs. Friday night, I got absolutely NO sleep. Then on [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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07
Aug 2010
Hi folks! I’ve been slacking on getting you the latest “Lbs.” the movie info! Though there was a slight lull for a while (I’m sure the guys needed a break).
So here is the latest:
“Lbs.” will be premiering in Durham, North Carolina on August 20th at the Durham Arts Council. Click here for more information. Tickets are $10 and Carmine Famiglietti will be in attendance.
And in somewhat related news, “Lbs.” director, Matthew Bonifacio is set to begin filming his next film, a “follow your dreams comedy,” entitled “Not for Nothing” in NYC in September. Check out the [ ... ]
03
Aug 2010
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m still buying various 100 calorie packs. What can I say? They’re handy! But I have made some great strides in the past couple of months.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m a “quantity eater.” I like to eat. I like to eat a lot. I won’t deny it. I can eat a lot in a very short amount of time. Um, yeah, pretty much the definition of a binge.
However, you would be so incredibly proud of me! I know I am! A few months ago, I searched and searched for my favored 100 [ ... ]
Category: Food, Health
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01
Aug 2010
Hi all! I hope you’ve had a great weekend. For the most part, mine was pretty darn good if I do say so myself. Definitely one of the most “social” weekends I’ve had in a really long time. Something to do everyday. Today, I went to lunch with a coworker that has become a really good friend and we sat at the restaurant for almost four hours!! Luckily, there was no shortage of tables, so we didn’t feel bad about hogging one. I really had a fantastic time. And seriously, we talked about darn near almost everything.
I’ll stop here and [ ... ]
Category: Psychology
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29
Jul 2010
Hi guys!
You’re not going to believe it, but I actually cleared out my Google Reader last night. Now, admittedly, there were over 1000+ posts (I’m not sure exactly as that is what it maxes out at), so I wasn’t able to read all of them, but I did read quite a few. Of course, now it is back up to around 30, but hopefully this will be a first dip of my toe back into the blog-reading world.
Food-wise, this week isn’t going so great. And the scale is responding in kind (but it can go suck my big toe). All-in-all, [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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29
Jul 2010
In yet another effort to keep myself up as late as possible, I came across this list of 99 things over at Angelia’s site “Amelioration.” Would love for you guys to fill it out as well if you’re interested, and if you do, please leave me a link! Since I can never keep my mouth shut, I’ve made comments on some of the things that I haven’t done, as well. The bolded ones are ones that I have done.
1. Started your own blog – (Who me? A blog? Huh? No way.)
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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28
Jul 2010
Today was weigh in day and unfortunately, I showed a 1.1 pound gain. But surprisingly, I was very okay with it. While a bit disappointed, I actually had an extremely positive attitude about it all.
First, I had Mexican (chips/salsa, grilled chicken fajitas with sour cream and guacamole) for lunch and then the leftovers for dinner on Saturday. I snacked way more than I should have late Saturday night – not crazy off-plan things (like ice cream), but definitely more than I should have had and didn’t count it. Sunday, I had a bagel thin pizza (just a homemade pizza using [ ... ]
Category: Food, Weigh-Ins
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27
Jul 2010
Hi all! Coming off of my high of the soccer game yesterday, I have some more good news.
You all know that I work/sleep some funky hours. Well, I heard that the TEDxKC tickets were going to become available today, and since I knew that Brené Brown is going to be one of the speakers, I knew I had to do everything in my power to get tickets. You can read an article in the KC Star about the event here. It says, though, that she is going to be speaking on social anxiety and human behavior. Score!
I [ ... ]
Category: Books / Movies / Entertainment, Brene Brown
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26
Jul 2010
AND I WAS THERE!!!!!!!!
This was an excited me before we left for the game:
You know the best part about it? I bought that t-shirt at the National World War I Museum back on Memorial Day weekend. It was the weekend that we went to the dinosaur exhibit. It didn’t fit when I bought it! It was WAY too tight! AND NOW IT FITS! Which is just awesome because it has a picture of Snoopy on it as the Flying Ace.
(Note: I went ahead and bought it back then knowing that it wouldn’t fit, because I [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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24
Jul 2010
So if you’re reading this on my site, you may have noticed a slight theme switch. For the most part, I personally really like it. I wanted something bold to represent my attitude towards wanting to live a bolder life. Of course, there are little things that kind of irk me that I will be stewing over and working on to see if I can figure out. Not the least of which is why I get an error when clicking on some of my individual posts. So if you happen to have a comment on one of them that you [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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23
Jul 2010
I peeked at the scale today. Again. I peeked yesterday, and the day before. I fully admit it. I’ll probably peek again tomorrow.
In the weight loss blogging world, there is a lot of talk about the scale. For fairly obvious reasons. For one, it’s a way to track our progress when it can’t be seen (i.e., clothes aren’t fitting differently yet, etc.). For another, our doctors place quite a bit emphasis on it. For another, so do we sometimes.
Many of us adhere to the belief that the actual number on the scale doesn’t matter as much as how we feel [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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22
Jul 2010
Is anyone else as glad as I am that it’s Thursday? That’s one day closer to Friday!
Unfortunately, I’m either fighting off a head cold or have just been slammed by allergies. Last night, I was thinking head cold. Today, I’m thinking probably allergies. Right now, I’m struggling with really watery, burning eyes. Not too pleasant when you’re at work. I’ll be fine, though.
I got my license plate all renewed today and will get to keep the same personalized plate. I’m glad about that, because I kind of like it.
Overall, it’s been kind of a rough day [ ... ]
Category: Life in General
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