1. My new SERVER job at a downtown, corporate restaurant starts tomorrow.2. The against-all-odds relationship with my new boyfriend (boyfriend) is almost five months old.3. Today I weigh 124 lbs and have reached my first weightloss goal.My life finally doesn't suck!...
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The Sleep Factor in Weightloss
(I posted this last August, but I'll do it again since I'm currently on this weightloss kick.)Finally, a way to fight obesity that isn't about dieting and exercise -- make sure you get enough sleep! An article in the July/August 2005 issue of Nutrition Action...
“How Many Months?”
Last month I was making some copies at a UPS store. It was a sunny, warm day so I had taken off my sweater and was feeling relaxed in a pair of black, elastic-topped slacks and a tucked-in pink cotton shirt. The Latino guy at the cash register couldn't have been more...
Details
Before this fat-under-siege plan I was probably eating between 2200 and 2400 calories a day (I'm 5 feet, 2 inches).Motivation: Last summer's shorts and jeans no longer fit!5/1/06 Weight: 130Daily Calorie Goal: 1900 (maximum I allowed myself)Daily Exercise: 40-50...
I’m no baseball fan
...so when my boyfriend invited me to come with him and some friends this Monday to a White Sox game, I was non-plussed. I'm more of a Cubs supporter, but I figured why not see the Sox? I like the people who are going and it'll be fun to hang out.Today it hit me:...
I Have a New Job
I want to be excited. I want to be relieved. I want to be proud. I have found my new job!But my employment has been so F#$%-ED for the past six months all I can manage is a weary, tentative feeling of gladness. I wonder, will this job fall through, too? It's a...
The right direction
Okay, in the past several days my bathroom scale has reluctantly conveyed that I have lost almost four pounds since the beginning of the month, although the big scale at the gym says it's been two pounds. So I'll call it three pounds and I'll take it! Losing three...
Fat blogs
Disclaimer: since I've become properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and obsession with food and weight. It's sad to me now. June 2019: I've added this photo so you can see how skinny I was while I worried aboutweight. And I was hooked on...
Celebrate every chance you get
The job hunt is going as well as can be expected: I've been responding to restaurant ads and a couple have asked me for an interview, so I'm happy.And I've FINALLY made some headway on the fitness front: after 12 days of my fat-under-siege plan, yesterday the weight...
Two Bloggers Meet Face to Face (no way)!
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mick meets Reg, originally uploaded by regrodriguez. (I'm re-posting this with Mick's photo of...
job offers
I'm back on the (RESTAURANT) job search and as usual I interview like a dream and my resume is excellent and people want to hire me. Getting the job is never the problem. Making a decent decision about which job to take is the problem. If my last three job decisions...
frustration
My new restaurant still isn't open and it isn't looking too good for it happening any time soon. Temp work is very unsteady. I haven't been fully employed since Nick and Tony's went out of business at the end of December. What the hell is this bad luck?? From Bar...
discouragement
Day nine of the diet: absolutely no change in weight.
International No Diet Day, May 6
I wish I'd known about International No Diet Day before it happened on Saturday. Established in 1992 by Mary Evans Young, director of the British anti-diet campaign Diet Breakers, on this day we are all to:Take a day off from whatever crazy diet plan you are following...
Blob
I’ve located the extra weight. Two weeks ago I posted that the weight scale showed a gain of several pounds, while my tape measure didn’t show much difference. It’s because the weight has gone south. I was focusing on the wrong half of my body.Okay, so now that I’ve...