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WWHDD?

February 20, 2012

There’s a quote or saying that’s just out of mental reach. You know the feeling… when something’s familiar but you can’t quite access that part of your mind which will provide the answers. Today’s topic was inspired by a comment from Julia over at Boyfriends Make You Fat. She was lamenting some of her recent [...]

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Shooting the messenger (aka: to weigh or not to weigh)

February 17, 2012

I recently restarted tracking food and exercise in a reinvigorated attempt to lose weight, having confessed to having gone AWOL in a ‘caring about what I eat’ sense after a weigh-in that left me wallowing in a pool of self-pity. In that post I commented on the obviousness of my attitude and mindset change post-weigh-in. [...]

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Just flesh and bone

January 16, 2012

Two weeks into my renewed weight loss efforts and things are still going swimmingly. And I must confess I find it quite perplexing… that one minute I’m behaving so dastardly (eating everything in sight, thousands and thousands of calories in a day and unable to refrain from partaking in the odd caramello koala or 12); [...]

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Lessons from late night reality TV: embarrassing and weighty makeovers (Part 2)

December 16, 2011

Yesterday I wrote about a late-night reality television show I came across while channel surfing for something better. I missed a significant portion of the show and didn’t actually even stay on the channel once I started watching it (continuing my channel surfing – and nasty habit of watching a couple of things at once… [...]

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Going through the motions (Part 1: angsting)

October 7, 2011

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, or are one of the few (gazillion) people who have not been reading my blog (hurrumph!) you would know that I’ve been struggling to stay on track with my weight-loss program over the past few weeks. This round of the program actually started a month ago and [...]

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Snapping the f*ck out of it

September 29, 2011

After my seemingly motivated posts earlier this week, I have been a bit down over the last couple of days. And I must confess that my mood is entirely self-inflicted. I had a bit of a blah day on Wednesday. Some stuff happened at work that stressed me out, my gym class was cancelled (again [...]