Jennifer on May 6th, 2011

With today’s mail came a catalog for “Woman Within” — comfort, fit & value for sizes 12W to 44W.  I don’t believe I have ever ordered from this company, and in fact have only mail-ordered plus-size clothing one or two times in the past, a long time ago.  I haven’t received catalogs from any clothing [...]

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Jennifer on April 30th, 2011

Ok, this is a bit of an exaggeration, but I went to a church rummage sale today.  They had a “bag sale” which means that everything you could fit into a paper grocery bag became yours for $2.  I filled three bags, mostly with clothes.  Having finally met my goal weight, I wanted to get [...]

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Jennifer on July 14th, 2010

I was reviewing my list of tag words and was happy to see that I haven’t used these words in a long time:

plateau
boredom
plus-size
rut

I haven’t used them because I haven’t felt them! Many people I come across are bored with their exercise routine or feel frustrated that they (think they) are eating right and exercising [...]

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Jennifer on May 3rd, 2010

I need to keep this one short, so that I can keep the promise to myself to get to bed early tonight, but wanted to report that this morning I weighed 200, for a large 3-lb loss from last week at the same time. All seven of the previous days food journal were good [...]

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Jennifer on October 12th, 2009

After browsing the blogs I follow this morning I felt the urge to take a spin off of a posting I saw about wanting to fit into chic clothing that used to be worn. weightlossninja showed off a shirt, slacks and leather jacket that he used to wear and that he is determined to [...]

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Jennifer on September 7th, 2009

I have been following a number of other related blogs for inspiration and ideas. One of them clued me in to the idea that I need to have planned rewards in place at certain points during my weight loss journey. Rewards? Won’t the lost weight be reward enough?
I remember a few years back and the [...]

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