No More Promises…

Yeah, I overate again today…and yesterday. I’m in a bad cycle and it’s that time again– the end of the month. By custom, on the first day of the month, I take stock of my weight loss and document my measurements in a little book I have had for 7 years. I will be [...]

Help Me, I am Doing the Half

Half marathon doesn’t sound so bad. Especially when it is so far down the road, way down the horizon. When I decided to do the Philadelphia Distance Run in September, I hadn’t thought about the joys of training in the summer. As heat waves roll through my area, I couldn’t imagine running 7, 8, 10 [...]

What My Heart Most Desires

I have been losing sleep reading Sonia Choquette’s Your Heart’s Desire, a book about manifesting your dreams through the joint efforts of conscious intention and subconscious belief.  This workbook has simple exercises and meditations to teach 9 principles for creating reality. After working the first chapter using the first principle, “Bring Your Dream Into [...]

Invite acceptance

An hour ago I completed a binge (large bag Doritos, pint ice cream, can whipped cream) and the usual calm has come over me. During these times I think about quitting the binge eating for good. “This time it will be different.” Often I’ll have a particularly nasty binge and think that I eat till [...]