Tag Archives: health
Ahh choo! Blowing the Dust off of my Blog
Wow, so it’s been a year since my last post and oh what a year it was! I just had to jinx it with my “figuring out my work/life balance” post! Boy, was that put to the test! All in … Continue reading
Finding a Work/Life Balance – FINALLY!
I’ve lived all the lives of a mom it seems. I’ve been a full-time working mom, a stay-at-home-mom and now I’m a part-time work-from-home mom. If you’d asked me 3 months ago if I wanted to keep being a stay-at-home-mom … Continue reading
Thinking back & Going forward
Yesterday was my first child’s 14th birthday. It got me thinking about what I was doing 14 years ago and where I was in my journey. Right before that pregnancy I’d gained back the weight from my most successful weight … Continue reading
Vacation, Death Scare & Back Surgery… oh my!
To say I’ve had an interesting last few months would be an understatement! Now I’m playing catch up… not only do I mean filling y’all in (I get to say that now – been a Southerner for over a decade … Continue reading
Updates and Changes
Wow… didn’t mean for so much time to come between posts here! I forget the audience (of um, all 2 of you?) here aren’t the same audience of the 1200+ people who like my Person in Progress page on Facebook … Continue reading
Struggling in the weight loss battle? READ THIS
I just had an epiphany. In my 15+ years of seriously working at this weight battle, one thing is always true: I keep learning things about weight loss and myself and this is just another example. It shocks me every … Continue reading
Differences – how changing your mind can change it all
It’s amazing the amount of change that can happen in just a couple weeks. After changing my thinking about the responsibility I have for myself and family concerning food choices from a burden to an opportunity, more than weight loss … Continue reading
Mommy: Food Monitor
It’s been plenty hard enough to battle my own weight issues for the past few decades. For some reason it never occurred to me that I’d have to do most of the “work” for my children’s struggles as well. Call … Continue reading
Back Injury Lessons
Last Monday I threw my back out. We’re talking incapable of getting up, standing, walking or even sitting down without assistance and there was no such thing as a “comfy position”. It was the worst back pain of my life. … Continue reading
Functioning
The state of my life feels exactly as this post is titled. Lately I feel like a shell of a person. I’m there, I’m doing the daily tasks, but I’m checked out. It would fit my mood perfectly if I … Continue reading