Personal Experience

Barbara on August 22nd, 2010

I listened to an interesting sermon the other day by a Unity minister. She reminded her congregation of the incredible power of words and how, when a person tells a story, the story changes the listener AND the storyteller. She wasn’t talking about Little Red Riding Hood type stories, but the stories we tell others [...]

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Barbara on July 30th, 2010

During the past month, despite trying to get back on track, I’ve lost only two pounds — not the pound a week I’d planned for. Even though I had a stated goal of one pound a week for the diet, in the back of my mind I really thought I’d blow that out of the [...]

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Barbara on July 9th, 2010

YIKES! I missed last week’s post! For the first time since the beginning of the year, I was negligent. Although, frankly, you didn’t miss much. I didn’t lose a single ounce and didn’t want to talk about it. Sometimes my discussion about weight loss makes me remember that great old line by Dylan Thomas: “Someone’s [...]

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Barbara on June 28th, 2010

In reading other diet blogs lately, I’ve noticed a lot of people have hit a plateau. Some have failed to lose for the past several months. That’s exactly what’s been happening with me. I’ve lost a grand total of one pound since the 11th — more than two weeks ago. I have a theory: it’s [...]

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Barbara on June 18th, 2010

I felt a little like Scarlett O’Hara this morning. I weighed in at 198 and raised my fist, partly in triumph and partly in defiance, and swore “As God is my witness, I will never be 200 again!” And that’s a vow I intend to keep. I remember when I first tipped the scales at [...]

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