Dear Priscilla,
By the time you read this, I’ll be gone. It’s something I’ve needed to do for quite some time but didn’t have the heart to talk to you about. I knew you wouldn’t understand. You’d say this is just another of my fascinations and that I’d never actually leave you.
But I have. I’ve left [...]
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#352 Priscilla | The 100 Pounds Project
#353 Monique | The 100 Pounds Project
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Dear Monique,
I had myself convinced that we were good together. I took a doctor’s comment that I was “healthy but for the extra weight” and focused on the healthy part. I didn’t feel bad with you but how was I to know any better. We’d been together fo [...]
#354: Michael
Note: I’ve named this pound after a dude at the request of my friend, Melanie.
Michael,
Social pressures can do a lot to help or harm one’s sense of self and subsequent health choices. You were one of the harms.
You were the “friend” who insisted that I wasn’t fat as I continued to gain weight far past [...]
#355 Celina | The 100 Pounds Project
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Dearest Celina,
As I lay on the mattress thrown on the floor of that basement room where water froze if left in a glass overnight; you were there.
When I stared at the tower that comprised a job interview, wondered if I was really afraid of heights, and began to [...]
Primal Stride Challenge | Five At Five | Day Five
Good Morning, Striders!
How do you typically respond to a stressful situation?
Do you scream? Are you the silent type?
I was once proud of my ability to “keep my cool” no matter what. I could internalize any stress thrown at me and honestly thought I’d be okay.
I wasn’t okay.
I ended up wound so tight that every time [...]
#356 Dominique
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Dear Dominique,
I didn’t smile much when I was with you. Like some youthful Keating I lived in direct contradiction to Ellsworth Toohey’s edict that fat people must be jolly.
It was freezing cold outside as we took our last walk together. You didn’t seem to care. Your stuff was [...]
What Do You See When You Look In A Mirror?
I see man boobs.
Much of what you’ll find in the self-help section at your local bookstore points to “self acceptance” or “self love” as the ticket to living a happier life. We are told to look in a mirror and say, “I love what I see.”
I’m not sure that’s such a good idea. The mirror [...]
How Does A Person Get To Be 100lbs Overweight?
How do people get to be tremendously fat? I don’t mean a little chunky, beefy, or heavyset. I’m talking prodigious, massive, positively huge.
I was one of those people (very recently, in fact).
I believe severe obesity is, for many people, the result of something I call (for lack of a better name) the obesity cycle:
The Obesity [...]
Emotional Eating – How To Break The Cycle
Are you an emotional eater?
::raises hand::
Well, I was. The only emotions I have about eating these days are joy and exultation. I really like eating. I had a problem though. I was eating whenever I felt stressed, frustrated, or anxious. Get this, I even ate when I was disgusted with myself for losing control over [...]
2 Confessions & Your New Year’s Resolution?
Confessions:
1. I’m terrified of making videos. I don’t have the software or know-how to tweak videos into delightful goodness… so I just talk into a cheap camera.
2. I laugh at fat jokes. Yeah, I’m a fat person. If anything, that should mean I get the jokes and find them more amusing than anybody else? I [...]
#357 Haydee
Dear Haydee,
Today is my birthday. The shortest day of the year. The first day of winter. The day Druids dragged pretty girls from castles and sacrificed them in the hope that the sun would return for an other summer.
Unfortunately for you, I’m not afraid of the cold and have good low-light vision. Early on this [...]
#358 Kari
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Dear Kari,
I’m not the crying type. I’m the resourceful guy everyone looks to for a solution when things fall apart. I didn’t expect to cry when I said goodbye to you.
Oh, but I did cry! I sobbed like a child. Nobody could tell I was crying though. It [...]
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