Weeding is a tedious and laborious task. But it’s a necessary one. Weeding opens the space for plentiful growth and abundance. Sure some weeds can have some positive attributes, but they all, on a basic level, are competitive by nature. They compete for soil, nutrients, sunlight and water. Growth is difficult enough, never mind fighting
“Happiness is a journey not a destination” This is a quote that I had found for my vision board at the beginning of the year, which really came to light yesterday. I was reading a blog about self-image perceptions passed along to us by our mothers (a really great read actually: http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/8760102/When-your-mother-says-shes-fat) and specifically one
Funny I started this fixer upper project (my body) back in August of last year, at which time I weighed 147.2lbs. That was over seven months ago. And here I am now, 6 six days away from my dress fitting. What was I hoping for? Big changes. What was I expecting? Miracles. What did I
A Visit to the East I realized recently, when my girlfriend’s father was in the hospital with a very serious brain hemorrhage, how much we rely on western medicine, and how much trust we are asked to put into what seem to be “guesses” than diagnoses. I won’t blame the Doctors, the Nurses or the system,
I love this time of year, fresh starts and new beginnings. New year’s resolutions often sound cliché but isn’t it funny how a part of us buy into them, why else would January be the busiest time for gyms and trainers? Well in all honesty, what better time to refocus and renew oneself but at
While some weight loss is intentional, that certainly isn’t always the case. Typical weight loss is ego based, lending to specific action and intention, we want to look better, so we do these things to accomplish that. But when weight loss is medically based; it’s an entirely different ballgame. I have a girlfriend who I
It’s pretty amazing the transformations people are able to effect over themselves and in their own lives. I must admit that when I see those typical “before and (ridiculously different) after” shots on infomercials, I grimace. I subconsciously and suspiciously take them with a grain of salt. ARE THEY SERIOUS, they’re trying to make it
The reason that I know, somewhere deep down inside of me (deep deep down inside of me) that I can successfully transform myself is because of the amazing women I personally know, that have done it before me. My healthful trailblazers if you will, my ex-chubby gurus. They’ve shown me that sure, we all fall sometimes
Are we living in an age of inauthenticity? We are in a time where a click of a button seemingly erases a person from our lives. Does it successfully also undo our experiences with them? Erase our memories of them? Reverse their impact in our lives? Does deleting a friend off of facebook mean the
October 16, 2012 It dawns on me last night, that I have acquired ways of keeping myself chubby. I’ve unintentionally morphed chubby choices into really bad engrained habits and ways of being. But unbeknownst to me, these choices keep me on the hamster wheel week to week and create my “New Years resolutions” every Monday.