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Writing about Weight – #45by45
So I stepped on the scale this morning. And my friends, it wasn’t pretty. About two years ago I put on some winter weight, of about 15 pounds, and it never came off, and now it has an additional five pounds on top of it. This, on top of the 60-ish I should lose. I’ve written a lot about weight on other blogs, but I figure that since this is becoming my new home on the internet, I’ll bring that conversation over here. Because it is the biggest mountain that I need to climb. I have always struggled with my weight. I was an athlete when I was younger (competitive…
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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…
