A good friend from way back used to tell me, “Hanlie, from the moment I got a sense of identity – at a very young age – I knew that I was not like other people“. He wasn’t trying to be different for the sake of being different – it wasn’t an act to grab attention (although he’d been known to hitchhike with a unicycle and give impromptu performances when offered a ride) – he’s just a quirky guy. He …
I love reading. Always have. I was always the kid with my nose stuck in a book. I believe that’s why I picked up English so early and why I have quite a comprehensive wealth of general knowledge. I’ll read just about anything, but my favorites are crime and political thrillers – not really the genre for life’s great truths. But the other day these words fairly jumped off the page and settled in my mind: “In this life, y’ever …
Or vengeance. Either way, I can just imagine it chuckling in its (my?) sleeve over the very effective, albeit unpleasant, tricks it’s been employing to keep me on the straight and narrow. I did well for most of the last week. As always when I go plant-strong, and high raw, my energy levels soared and I actually wanted to walk and dance and stretch. And I slept well, which is becoming a very important aspect of my well-being. The only …
This was not even an issue for me – I’d left my scale behind with Craig when I moved and I was happy to observe my weight loss through looser clothes and better mobility (being able to reach my feet and cross my legs, for instance). I was too intuitive to concern myself with the bathroom scale. But Bennie, my weight loss / life coach, insisted on Saturday that I get on the scale regularly – even daily. He says …
A few weeks ago when Bennie, my life coach, asked me to take my self-help sabbatical, he also asked me this: “How much more will you need to discover, uncover, read, meditate, ruminate, etc. before you get it? Have you ever struggled with something difficult for a long time – a puzzle, or a math concept maybe – and then suddenly, in an instant, something clicked and you got it? From there on doing it became almost effortless and you …
Why am I fat? Not just slightly chubby, but morbidly obese? Society wants me to believe that I lack self-control – that if I waged war on my body long enough by depriving it of food (a siege) and subjecting it to rigorous exercise (torture), I could be converted to the ranks of the “normal”. You know, the calories-in/calories-out chestnut. I bought into that for a long time. And in the process I got fatter and fatter, hated myself more …
Often when a “weight loss” blogger starts posting less and less frequently it means that she’s fallen off the wagon and is withdrawing into her cave with enough baked goods to see her through the season. That’s not why I’ve been scarce. I’ve been busy, busy, busy (at work and living), which means that I’ve been going to bed earlier to rest enough to be able to function the next day. And to catch up on the sleep I lost …
I’m 42 today. So, while I have loads to tell you with regards to my blogging sabbatical, I first want to share with you my bucket list for the next year – 43 things I want to do before my 43rd birthday. Here they are, in no particular order: Drop a few clothing sizes. I’m not attached to any numbers in this regard – and I’m so over the word “weight”. I just want to wear much smaller clothes. …
I saw my life coach today – our first session since the end of April. A lot has changed in my life these last few months and I couldn’t wait to tell him all about it. I was proud of all that I’d learned and my latest insights and emotional breakthroughs. Then came the curve-ball. How many more books will I have to read before I can start losing weight? How many more blogs must I read, or blog posts …
Five years ago I met a woman who, within the first few minutes of our acquaintance revealed that her husband had left her for a much younger woman and that she was raising her kids with no support. For the next three days, this was all she could talk about. Every conversation got redirected to how useless her ex was, and how hard it was to raise two boys on her own. She was incredibly bitter, leading me to assume …
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