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When I see group photos that include me these days, I often have a millisecond where I don’t recognize myself within the photos.  My mental image is still caught up in the size I used to be.  Many of my close friends would laughingly tell you that one of my favorite games these days is, [...]

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One of my friends called me today and asked what I had done Saturday, since I had told him I couldn’t go out with him to the Habitat build.  I had spent the morning working, my last stretch of work in my three years for Habitat.  I was doing an applicant presentation.  I got to [...]

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This morning it hit me that I have one more week of work before my life transitions full-time into my long-time dream of writing for a living.  I called my husband into the living room, grabbed his hands, and spun around with him like we were five years old and on a playground.
I’m so happy. [...]

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Though the year actually starts in January, some part of me will eternally cling to August and September as the time of new beginnings.  My mother was a teacher until recently, so my life took on the school year rhythm from birth.  Growing up, every year in fall, as the light turned golden and, at [...]

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After following many, many conventional paths to weight loss—and failing at them—I’ve forged my own path and found success.  Here are a few bits of my unconventional methodology:
1. I cut out tv.  That’s right–we don’t have cable or network tv at all.  In fact, we no longer even own a tv, though we’ll occasionally watch [...]

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My official weigh-in for this week is 159.2.  It’s been 159-point-something nearly every time I weighed myself this week (I weigh daily), and the first time it happened, I called my husband in to see and then I jumped up and down with happiness.  But it’s not official till it shows up in a weekend [...]

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I was reading a book in the steamy, hot bathtub this morning when my mind wandered off the page and into my life history.  Particularly, for some reason, I remembered the winter several years ago that I never turned on the gas to get heat in the apartment I was renting.  That was the winter [...]

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