Stress will get ya!

You have to watch out what happens at times when you are really stressed. If you are like me, you get to panicing a little bit, and go into a sort of survival mode. I’ve noticed my little survival mode is: I do what I need to do for today, with no thought of the […]

Get Rid of Temptation

I think the best way to get yourself to be more disciplined is to remove as much temptation from your life as you can. Than, you don’t necessarily have to be srong willed, you just have to avoid thinking about it. Sort of like, out of sight out of mind. What I mean by […]

Checking the scale

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
Robert Orben
I read once that while you are trying to lose weight, you shouldn’t get on a scale everyday. I’d have to disagree with that. I understand the reason they […]

Yoga: will it help me improve?

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Yoga, specifically how it’s good for your core. Since I’ve got a bad back, the thought of that appealed to me. The aspect of meditation appealed to me as well, and I’ve been looking for a good way to counter stress. Also, I heard that […]

Response to a challenge

My brother sent me an email after I talked to him about my difficulties following through on my weight loss new year resolution. He challenged me to come up with ten, non-shallow reasons for me to lose weight, and five things that are painful things that are happenning because of my weight, and then […]