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Learning to listen to my body…turns out, it means shutting off my mind

154 weeks using the bodybugg (most of the time). That’s about 1080 days! My weight loss journey began on March 8, 2010. That was 1127 days ago (and interestingly, that was also a Monday). I cannot begin to tell you all that I have learned about diet, nutrition, exercise, metabolism, weight lifting/training and so on.…

April 8, 2013 in Fitness, Mindfulness, Obesity, Self Esteem, Training, Transformation, Weight Loss.

Two days: More random thoughts

We leave tomorrow and the surgery is in two days. Tomorrow at this time, we should be more than halfway to the coast. I would like to say that I slept really well again last night. However, not so much. I slept enough, just restless and BIZARRE dreams. I have mentioned in previous posts just…

September 10, 2012 in Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Family, Heart Surgery, Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm, Uncategorized.

Three days: What’s on my agenda?

Three days from now, I should be in surgery. While I have the occasional catastrophic thought, for the most part I still feel very confident that all will be fine. My two biggest worries right now are getting to the pre-op appt on time (avoiding getting stuck in California traffic jams) and pain. We are…

September 9, 2012 in Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Heart Surgery, Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm, Uncategorized.

“None of my shorts fit. I’m fat!”

Yesterday we were getting ready to go to the lake for the first time this season. I had my bathing suit on and grabbed some shorts. They were too tight. Ugh! I grabbed another pair and I could not even pull them up. Same with another and another. The last pair I had left, finally…

July 1, 2012 in Fitness, Heart Surgery, Obesity, Self Esteem, Transformation, Weight Loss.

Why me? Not a Question I Ask

I met with my cardiologist Friday and for the second time in a month, she said something about asking myself “why me?”  This is not a question that I ask myself. It just never occurs to me. What are we asking when we ask this question? Why me and not someone else? Why me, I…

June 24, 2012 in Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Heart Surgery, Mindfulness, Transformation.

“For as little as you eat, it’s amazing you can eat all of that”…

And it’s amazing that after being at a healthy weight and working out at least 5 days per week for over a year, this still sends me back to my FAT place…even on a day when I spent 2 1/2 hours at the gym lifting weight. The comment was about a salad and was not…

May 26, 2012 in Obesity, Self Esteem.

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