Raging against the machine

March 24, 2012

If you have time, pop by and visit my other blog for my latest post inspired by MizFitOnline and Big Girl Bombshell, where I talk about laundry tags and care instructions.   Meanwhile… I promise that I won’t keep posting about the appointments with my dietician/psychologist – and not just because I’m boring you all [...]

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Losing my mojo; feeling just so-so

September 21, 2011

A few bloggers I follow (mostly from the other side of the world) have recently commented that they’ve lost their blogging, or health and fitness mojo. Well, sadly, I’m right there with them. As you would know from my posts over the past 4-6 weeks, my motivation has been waning A LOT and just when [...]

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Resilience

September 2, 2011

Re·sil·ience - n. 1. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy. Hmph! Today I get a big F for FAIL. And for FUCKED UP. Cos I did. Both of them. Although the day started well, things began to look bleak during a conversation at work about the person coming into the job I applied [...]

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Riding the wave

June 22, 2011

Last week the Video Message from our fearless leader, Michelle, talked about our emotions, our motivation and our willpower muscle. At the time I was on a high – as per my recent posts. But I knew what she meant by the highs and lows that we all experience. I’d been there before and I [...]

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Silly season woes

December 19, 2010

They say that suicide rates increase at Christmas time.  I can understand why as it can be not only a stressful time, but also a confronting one.  I only have one sibling and he (and his wife) only have one child, so I don’t have a lot of presents to buy and most of our [...]

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Selective memory

October 8, 2010

Only one more day until weigh-in.  The numbers on the scale this week have gone nowhere and I am still about what I was last week.  Which was 600g more than the week before – AND I had all sorts of excuses as to why that was.  As a result, I expected a good loss this [...]

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