Morning Musings

I love my quiet time in the morning.

Seems I wake up, more often than not with the FID’s.  That’s:  Fear Of Impending Doom.  I don’t know why I seem to “come to” most days in this state, but, thank God (or Good Orderly Direction, or Source, or Universal Intelligence, or whatever you want to call it), I do know what to do about it. Continue reading “Morning Musings” »


November 1

I try to stay anonymous about my profession at my gym for a variety of reasons.  But, a friend at the gym who had lost 75 lbs. last year before the holidays asked me, upon learning about what I do […]

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October 31

Hands down, the biggest mind game I ever played was telling myself that I don’t care.  That’s the one I use when none of my other excuses will hold water with me.  That is the final “to heck with it”.  […]

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October 30

Halloween – a single evening holiday that can light the fuse and set the stage for the whole ensuing holiday season.  Virtually all of the special candy is just the same ole candy they sell everywhere all the time dressed […]

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October 29

Self-recrimination is one of those convoluted methods I can also use to give myself permission to eat.  I already blew it.  I am already fat.  I have diabetes anyway.  I am so bad, why try?  Just another way my eating […]

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October 28

I have to eat it to be polite.  Although I have done it a thousand times myself…no, actually I don’t.  And if I really didn’t like it, I wouldn’t eat it.  I have never seen a vegetarian eat a steak […]

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October 27

Blaming is a great one because there is nothing I have to change about myself – it is someone else’s fault.  “My husband doesn’t like it when I don’t eat with him” (so eat with him, but eat something that […]

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