There’s Been an Attitude Adjustment

It’s like a switch was thrown inside of me.  Instead of treading water in an endless spiral of griping about being fat and eating food I didn’t really want or need, I’m going somewhere – and for the first time in a long time, it’s not backwards.
I rejoined Weight Watchers, yes.  But I already knew [...]

I Don’t Blog My Whole Life

Dear Staci,
Thanks for the “thoughtful” comments on my last blog post. For those who missed them, you said:
Mmm… nothing says “mature, self-directed and dermined woman” like cutting words out of magazines and making a collage. Then photographing it. Then posting the photo online. Then discussing it..
and
I still don’t get it. In all the time [...]

Making a Thought Collage

I’ve been in a stuck place for quite a while now where my weight and body are concerned.  I know what to do, and I wanted to want to do it, but I just didn’t.  I finally got tired of it and decided to get my act together and take a step.  The one I [...]

Do the Things Left Undone

IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER – by Erma Bombeck
(written after she found out she was dying from cancer).
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren’t there for the day.
I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it [...]

Becoming a Happy Normal Woman

I don’t feel much like an Angry Fat Girl anymore.  My dear friend Jen said she wants to be more of a Happy Normal Woman, and that resonates big time.  Of course there are things I want to change and things that push my buttons.  But you know what?  I don’t want to put the [...]

I feel like a slug

Mixed reactions to watching the Olympics — mystified over beach volleyball, happy watching gymnastics, getting tired of Michael Phelps, annoyed at the broadcasters.
I’m not an athlete so I can’t really relate to the almost miraculous speed, flexibility and power that the Olympic athletes demonstrate with every move.  Even the ones who are too insignificant to [...]