God help me through this tragedy

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

I am praying for strength. A horrible tragedy has happened in my family to a loved one; something like this could lead me to abandon all my work on achieving a healthy weight and lifestyle. All I can do is pray and hope I can get over this initial shock. I think my blood pressure might be very high and I have quite a persistent headache that aspirin doesn't help. Just need to pray.

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On a positive note

Saturday, May 19, 2012

I have been down over the pants destruction incident, but to be positive, I am now wearing regular size slacks and the plus size ones are way too big. Yes, it looks like clothes are made so much more flimsier these days. The fabric seems quite cheap in quality, but I paid a lot. I also do not like the dropped waist style; seems like all the pants I looked at were that way. sigh, but I am dropping sizes; love that!

What Being Fat Does to Clothes

Saturday, May 19, 2012

I had to buy a new pair of slacks for my trip, and I was dismayed at how expensive clothes have gotten (I have not bought clothes in quite a while because I feel depressed scouring plus size catalogs). A scant few hours into wearing them on a hot, humid day, I noticed that they were pilling badly on the inner thighs!!! I had pilling before, but not until I had worn the pants quite a few times. I was too ashamed to even mention the clothes destruction to my husband, but I was cursing inside, "What the...!!!" I gotta plow on to reach my goal.

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Stuff I sort of want to do

Friday, April 27, 2012

My biggest interests in life are travel, volunteer work and wild animal encounters. I work hard to combine the three things and have had incredible opportunities. But sometimes I start to think about smaller things in life that I am not familiar with but am curious about. One of them, lol, is to go to a casino! Some distant relatives of mine are casino regulars and I think it is a waste of good money to repeatedly gamble. That being said, I wouldn't mind trying the experience once or twice. I went to a casino on the Strip once with my adult daughter and tried to play a slot machine but my quarter kept coming back out. Obviously I was doing plenty wrong, and I am sure the people on the surveillance cameras where rolling with laughter. Just a very trivial blog post today to ease some of the anxiety packing and making last minute preparations for my volunteering trip next week.

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FATNISS

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

I am too old to be up on current hot topics, but I did get a copy of “Hunger Games” after the hype because I sure was intrigued by the title. Why, I have been hungry almost all my life because my appetite thermostat keeps telling me I am starving, especially when I am on binges! It is so contradictory, but that is how my body works. The more I overeat, the hungrier I feel. I hope they hurry and do research that might explain this bizarre phenomenon because this had made my life miserable. I have so many bad eating habits that are a real challenge to change- obsessing about food, slowing down at meals, spacing meals (this is the most important one, I think, because I tend to eat most of my calories early in the day or the starvation feelings dog me all day), and avoiding foods that make the hunger come in like crazy. In my case, it is bread, sugary food, and carbs in general including whole wheat. I can only think of one food that seems to fill me up, popcorn, because if I eat lots of it I feel full without as many calories as most other foods. Yep, I have been playing Hunger Games a lot longer than Katniss. I have read the first section of the book; saving the rest of airport and plane.

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