Today I stood in the full body mirror attached to my closet. I stared at my belly and my hips for full minutes in disbelief before huffing out a joke at my own expense to no one, Girl. You need to get it together. You looking like one of them ‘Before‘ pictures on Instagram! I…
Tag: weight loss
What I Need Most Is…Me (Hold the Self-Criticism)
how old were you when you first began to believe in your imperfections? when you actually started to buy into the idea that you were less than your potential…that there was something more you needed to strive to become. when did you first begin to squelch your quirks? when did you first walk past a…
Wanda’s Rules for Weight Loss: Rule #10 In Order to Lose You Have to Let Go
Bringing home the bacon, frying it in a pan, and helping someone else feel like they’re a man is recipe for cardiopulmonary disease. Don’t believe the hype. I would say I fell off the wagon. Falling off the wagon implies, however, that this absence from the blogosphere was a happenstance, a misstep, an error. And…
Wanda’s Rules for Weight Loss: Rule #9 Kind & Courteous Burns More Calories than Mean & Surly
Fat and jolly is a misnomer; how happy can you be when it takes a weekend to find a decent pair of jeans? I’m not a nice person. As much as it pains my mother to hear me say it, the truth is ‘mean and surly’ is a better descriptor for me. I don’t want…
Wanda’s Rules for Weight Loss: Rule #8 Always Eat Dessert
What is the point of all this bitter if you’re going to deny yourself the sweet? I was raised in a household where dinner was only over after dessert was served. I am a big fan of dessert. I believe in it and can honestly say that if dessert were a religion I would pay…
Wanda’s Rules for Weight Loss: Rule #7 Know When to Say When
It never fails if I have the energy I don’t have the time and when I have the time I don’t have the energy. Okay since I have re-dedicated this blog to wondering thoughts of my personal weight loss journey I have been juggling 4 pounds. One week I’m done the next week I’m up…
Wanda’s Rules for Weight Loss: Rule #6 Complacency Will Be The Death of You
You can be cute and fat, but you won’t be healthy. I have spent quite a bit of time in the last 20 years hiding my ‘ass’ets. There have been too big shirts and baggy jeans, stretch pants, sweat pants and skirts with asymmetrical hems. After so many tugs, pulls and spanx I’ve generally been…
Wanda’s Ruled for Weight Loss: Rule #5 Food is Fuel
Eating with feeling is not the same as eating because of a feeling. There are dozens of books out there about the emotional connections we make with food. I’ve read quite a few of them myself in an effort to understand how I became such an ’emotional’ eater (per one of my many Weight Watcher…
Wanda’s Rules for Weight Loss: Rule #4 Slow and Steady
Quick weight loss schemes are like one night stands. I have never taken the grapefruit challenge. Nor have I ever consumed lemon water laced with cayenne pepper for seven days straight. I haven’t taken the soup challenge or the subway diet. I don’t want a ‘cookie’ meal. Nor am I interested in drinking my dinner,…
Wanda’s Rules for Weight Loss: Rule #3 Tell the Truth
Little white lies will rest on your thighs. We all cheat on diets. It’s a universal fact. We all do it. Sneaking a cookie. Stealing away with a cup of ice cream. Claiming that single flight of stair climb as ‘exercise.’ It is inevitable that when you embark on a journey to lose weight you…
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