Pressure to Over Eat

Do you over eat to compensate for pain, guilt, lonliness or frustration? Millions do. But what happens at the end of the binge, added guilt. Be careful when you are confronting difficult situations. Food... ie overeating of food is not your friend.

Take a different route!

Go crazy on the ellipitcal
Dance wild and hard to a fast beat tune.
Walk it out-- on the tread mill
Serve some justice pumping some weights
Really angry, jump rope
Drink plenty of water
Snack on Green (sugar snap peas)

Peas belong to the vegetable family known as legumes whose plants produce pods with enclosed seeds. Legumes are protein-rich, low fat, nutritional additions to almost any meal, and peas are certainly no exception. In fact only lima beans are a better vegetable source of protein than peas. To me, there is nothing better than fresh peas stripped from their pods, boiled quickly and then tossed with some sweet butter and salt; they are sweet, tender and delicious, and so very nutritious.

Size Me

I am a power alone but with all my size 20ish, I am a force to be reckoned with. More than anything I have learned to love Size ME. Funny, I had to learn to do that. Consider it strange but thin women do it too.

It’s not always about the weight. It’s about identity and personal satisfaction in your own image. "Lord help me be okay in my own skin." I prayed that prayer a million times until I had to deal with a disorder called degenerative joint disease. Then I had less time to worry about weight due to the pain in my lower back. Prayer changes things, just not as you expect. ha ha ha

As women we have been given such a raw deal in society to look Size Perfect at all times. We are to gain 20+ lbs have big healthy babies and bounce back immediately to Size Superstar. Heck to the Narrah.

Marilyn Monroe was a true size 14– hello world- Thick is real size women. Thank you very much.

Weight Wait ...Whatever

Last night I was watching Entertainment Tonight. They aired a snippet of Oprah’s show featuring Kristie Alley. My stomach knotted up.

Kristi Alley is beautiful lady. Years ago, she gained weight and became a spokesman for Jenny Craig. She lost 75 lbs two years ago and appeared on Oprah in a two piece swim suit. What a major accomplishment.

Entertainment Tonight did an update how she has gained the weight back. The full story will be on Oprah today.

As I watched them talk about Kristi, I thought about myself. I use to hate my weight struggle and I fought soberly to win the badge over bulge. Don’t get it twisted, I was never thin. The smallest I have ever been was a size 16, which took the marine core the army and airforce and navy to stay at.

Name it I dang near did it in the struggle to be thin enough. I did Akins for 8 long months. My hair thinned out and I was dumb as a potato. My brain became a frig’n sponge absorbing nothing. Ha ha. Finally, I gave that up and went on to another billion dollar fight with fat.

I eventually hurt my back during aerobics and a zumba dance class. Doctors diagnosed me (after Xrays and wretched mri and too many dang insurance co-pays) with degenerative joint disease. The pain was relentless and unending.

That year during Christmas, I went to get gifts. As soon as we got into the store, pain crippled me. I was so embarrassed standing in the middle of the store in tears. My sons helped me to the car. My oldest wasn’t much taller than me at the time. I was so lost. Couldn’t exercise. Couldn’t do nothing to battle my bulge other than eat right.

Humph, my body is a pro at weight loss attack. It girts down and buckles up against any attempt to take away fat cells. It loves the extra like net's and flys love watermelon on a hot summer day. It's a heavy weight contender for sure.

I don’t love the extra, but I’ve learned to like me the way I am-que sara sara. I pray to be healty and to make better choices about food, exercises and the whole gambit. I am too broke to spend any more money on fake pills, diet scams and crap that won't work, never can work, will only work on models in pictures that were already thin and marketers found a fat girl that could sorta look like her after shedding a million pounds. Whatever. I the end, life is too short for burdens .

(PS—During National Novel Writing Month 08, I began writing a book regarding these very issues. Soon to Come )

Am I fat?

Have you bought a new outfit? Did you pull it up with ease?

When you checked your appearance in the mirror, did you get queasy facing the fat stranger looking back at you? If so, don't bother asking anybody the question that you already know. Am I too fat?

Of course you are fat? Your body is under seize of burgers, fries, milk shakes, chocolates, and no exercise. Face it, another dress size or belt buckle was in that last bite. Now you got to face habits and choices. Not too pretty, huh.

There is no magic fix. But you can change your outlook. The same bites that put on the extra pounds are the same bites (with different foods) that will reduce your weight.

Make a plan to be diffent. Exterminate your house of Heavy weight food that caused you to be fat. You must replace those items with healthier choices- veggies/fruits. Then make a plan to exercise-something is better than nothing three times a week. Challenge yourself to walk a mile. Then challenge yourself to do 100 situps a day. Make it fun.

Change your Thoughts/changes your mind!

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