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 3

Number Two – Be discriminating – I try to stay focused on what is special for the holidays and don’t end up with a lot of extras that I could have had anytime.  There are just more opportunities to eat […]

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November 2

Number One – Protect your environment.  I think that we all often make it ten times harder than it has to be by allowing far more tempting things into our home environments during the holidays that we would never have […]

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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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