Tag Archives: thoughts

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The “Danger Zone” & Letting Go

This is it… we’ve hit the “danger zone” for anyone on a journey to better health, aka the holiday season.  Sometime about a week before Thanksgiving until the New Year is really the hardest time of the year to stay … Continue reading

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Post-Surgery Update

It has now been 20 days since my husband’s gastric sleeve procedure.  Not only did he have that procedure done, he ended up having a hiatal hernia repair, a liver biopsy and some lipoma removed.  He is doing well and … Continue reading

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Incomplete Feelings… completed

You’d think I’d recently become a stay at home mom with this feeling I keep getting of needing to be doing a job I get paid for.  Lately, it seems like just about every time I have a moment to … Continue reading

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