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The Quarantine Begins…
This past week everything took a back seat to the pandemic. That’s a weird sentence to write. I remember hearing about the 1918 Spanish Flu, and watching that Downton Abbey season where Matthew’s fiance died tragically. And as someone who is passionately into history, of course I’ve studied all the various plagues like the sweating sickness, which came on and killed in a matter of hours sometimes. But watching all of this happen in real time is so surreal. Last week the newspaper reported that there was a case of coronavirus in our town. Our daughter has always had respiratory issues since she was small, and got croup all the…
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The fact is, it’s more than weight loss…
I’ve successfully lost weight in the past. Like a lot of overweight people, I’ve gone up, I’ve gone down. I lose 30 pounds, and gain back 20. Lose five, gain ten. I have a spectrum of “normal” where I’ve been for almost 20 years, and breaking through that is going to take the serious work, but I know I can do it because I’ve done it before. With that said, the number one lesson I’ve learned during those other times I’ve successfully lost weight – it’s not about the weight. It’s about you being happy and taking care of you. Like a lot of emotional eaters, I eat for stress.…
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To Know Thyself is the Beginning of Wisdom
I fail at my diet every day at 1pm. Or rather, sometime in between 1pm and 5pm. It’s that weird afternoon time where I’m prepping lunch, thinking about getting dinner ready, and my kiddo is home from school and wanting a snack. There’s a lot of time spent in the kitchen, much of it just sort of puttering around without much of a plan. I have excellent intentions. Make a beet salad. Eat spinach. Peel a carrot. And then I find myself re-discovering cake. And not only does all my good work all morning go out the dang window, but I’m playing an un-winnable game of catchup for the rest…
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Why is change so hard? (in which I disappeared for a month)
Why is making change so hard, and so confronting? How is it that I’ll have four really good days, make some progress, feel really good, and then have a terrible day. Then I want to go hide under a rock for three weeks to get over it. This is not the way one achieves goals. I know that intellectually, but it’s the whole “getting my body to go ahead with what my mind wants” that’s hard. It’s all well and good to look at quotes like this, and feel inspired: But what happens when you fear the new? What happens when you are afraid of the new because it’s an…
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Blog Post Day 2: In which I chop beets, and set a micro-goal
One of the things that is so difficult about reaching goals is that big goals are scary. How on earth am I going to start a consulting business this year? Or lose 60 pounds? I struggle to lose five! How can I do 60?! And this is why, my friends, I am setting micro-goals each week. Because they are way less scary. Take it one step further, and you will notice that I am setting micro-goals about things related to my big goals, but not directly tied to them. So I’m not setting a micro-goal to lose 2 pounds this week. Why? Because that reminds me that my goal is…
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Welcome 2020! (Blog Entry 1: An Introduction)
This is such a perfect gif for me, because I literally spent new year’s eve on a plane flying from New York to Lisbon. At 7pm NY time the captain came on the speaker telling us all that it was midnight in Lisbon, and wishing us a happy 2020, but of course where we were at the time – probably about 400 miles off the east coast over the Atlantic Ocean, it still would have been only about 8 or so, depending on when we crossed over the next time zone. So somewhere over the next couple of hours we flew into midnight, and 2020 hit me over the head…
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