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Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Mirror motivators…

Normally, I’m not a huge fan of canned sayings, which often strike me as cliched “feel-good” trifles without a lot of substance (and let’s face it: when held up to scrutiny, many of them don’t make any sense at all). But I suppose it’s like anything else, such as TV shows, movies or music: 90% [...]

Publicize!

One important motivator for me when I started my diet back in September was that I publicized what I was doing to all my family and friends. ALL of them. I posted it on Facebook and everything. I basically said, “I’m fat and I’m going to do something about it.” (Friends can view that Facebook [...]

New milestone reached: 219.6!

This is the first time I’ve been under 220 for at least 15 years. 220 has always been the “barrier weight” for me. It’s when I first began to notice I was getting too heavy, and it’s when I first became concerned about my diet and all the fatty food I was eating. But I [...]