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Any ideas on how to get a picky toddler to eat meat?

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About Me:: I am 26 years old. I am well traveled and well educated, I love to learn. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I am full of emotions, but I am also a good listener. Music moves me, to the point where sometimes I am brought to tears. I love to Salsa dance, and I love Bikrams Yoga (although I have a love hate relationship with it sometimes). I love hockey, Les Habitants. I prefer pubs and hockey games over clubs and head games. I run away from conflict, I run away from emotions, and sometimes I run, because I need to get away. I think a lot. I read a lot. I love to get into a heated debate. I love laughter…sometimes it eases the pain. I love my family. I love my brothers and I love my parents. I have amazing friends, I have fantastic conversations with them. I love conversations, the kind that makes you stop and think! I love the rain.

I want to lose this weight, so that I can finally start my life over again. I want to start in a new city, in a new world, wide eyed and bushy tailed, but not as a fat person, rather as a healthy person. Being this overweight is extremely unhealthy. Diabetes runs in my family, heat disease runs in my family, and I do not want to be a victim of my genes. I want to break through those barriers. I want to be healthy before my next birthday (May 12th). I want to feel good about myself, I want others to take note of me. I want to be the center of attention. I am smart and funny, and I have a lot of great ideas…but I feel like my weight sometimes holds me back.

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I am back in full swing!

So I put a call out there for some tough love last week. And you guys were so sweet when giving me tough love...but I desperately needed a kick in the pants (the fat pants)...so I gave myself one. And this weekend I finally got back into Ketosis. Oh my Goodness the week prior to try to get into ketosis was SO freaking hard...I suffered migraines, aches and pains and to boot, I got TOM this week. Oy Oy Oy. Not to mention that this crankyness is projected onto my relationship...I tend to pick fi… Continue

Posted on June 2, 2008 at 10:51am — 7 Comments

Oh Eff!!

Ok, so since my amazing trip to Montreal I have been having a really really hard time getting back into this diet. It has been even harder than it was getting onto it the first time. I mean, I feel like there is something seriously wrong with me. I haven't gained any weight, but I haven't lost any either, and I am just stuck in a plateau! I would love to lose this last 35 lbs...but I have NO motivation to get back onto this 100% strict Dr. B thing. None at all. I need a kick in the pants. I nee… Continue

Posted on May 28, 2008 at 12:02am — 4 Comments

A New ME!

HiYo!!! So sorry that I have been MIA for a little bit. I guess I just needed some ME time. So here are some updates: I had a huge huge huge month. I turned 27. I guess it made me realize that I am not a little girl anymore, and that realization has been scaring me for a while. What I mean by that is that I have this fear of realizing what I really want to do in life! It is scary. I had a really rough time figuring out what I wanted to do while I was in University. My undergraduate degree was… Continue

Posted on May 26, 2008 at 12:48am — 2 Comments

$35B spent in the diet industry!

Ok, so I know that my last blog post probably upset some people, so let me make myself a little clearer!! Dieting is the art of losing weight. A healthy lifestyle certainly helps. My frustration comes from the fact that people diet and feel like they are depriving their bodies of things like Chocolate and French Fries. You don't have to deprive your body of anything!! If you want a chocolate bar, have it! I know nobody is perfect and we all fall off the wagon (I have fallen off the wagon myself… Continue

Posted on May 8, 2008 at 7:34pm — 2 Comments

S*** or get off the Pot

Ok, so I am going to vent, it seems that I am using this as an outlet to vent about all kinds of things. So here is my vent for the day: I can’t stand people who say that they are dieting and really are not. Where I work, tones of people have noticed the weight loss, and it feels great, but every time I go by this man’s desk, he is ALWAYS like I am on so and so diet and it allows me to have one cheat item a day, yet he eats a million pieces of bread. I have written about him in the past, but it… Continue

Posted on May 8, 2008 at 1:11pm — 5 Comments

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At 11:09am on July 14, 2008, BigTickles said…: Haven't heard from you in a while...hope all is well

At 1:06am on June 22, 2008, junr1278 said…: I'M SO GLAD EVERYTHING IS GOING GOOD FOR YOU !!!

At 3:25pm on June 18, 2008, junr1278 said…: back in full swing huh !!!! Just check'n in haven't heard from you in a while :) not trying to be annoying just hope'n everythings goin ok :) .

At 10:33am on June 5, 2008, Amanda (formerly Grace) said…: Yeah, I knew that about the chocolate being a migraine trigger. It's always nice to meet other migraine sufferers. :) The no chocolate thing is going great. It's the other foods that are getting me- but I haven't binged so that's good. How have you been doing?

At 5:27pm on June 4, 2008, Arlene said…: To paraphrase Homer Simpson ... "Mmmm — chocolate!" I'm a big fan of chocolate myself. On Atkins, I allowed myself the Endulge bars and other sugar-free candies. Now, doing WW, I can eat small amounts of the real thing. Two Hershey's kisses really hit the spot sometimes while I'm at work.

Of course, I only take two with me. If I had a whole bag in my desk drawer, I'd end up eating the whole bag. I know my limitations ... or at least I'm beginning to!

At 10:13am on June 3, 2008, Amanda (formerly Grace) said…: Thanks for the comment about migraines- are yours normally triggered by chocolate?

At 1:21pm on May 29, 2008, Arlene said…: Thanks for the comment about my pictures. Funny thing about them, though: Even in that last one, where I'm standing out by Lake Mead, I felt good and was happy ... but in the back of my mind, I was thinking about the last 9 pounds I needed to take off to get to my goal weigh. Now I'd give anything to weigh 169 again! Why do we do that to ourselves?

At 3:05pm on May 28, 2008, Dawn said…: Thanks for the encouraging comment. HOLY COW...you are going great! 50lbs is nothing to shake a stick at!!! Keep it up!

At 10:49am on May 23, 2008, junr1278 said…: Turbo Where are you ?? I miss your to the point no bullshit blog. Hope your doing ok, come back soon.