October 2011
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Bliss is: Downsizing My Wardrobe
I was looking through old blog posts over on LJ (I’m such a dinosaur) and I realized that it was in March of this year that I was overwhelmed with excitement to be fitting into new size 12 pants. It was very exciting indeed. To put it in perspective for you, I was a size 14 at my wedding. That was 19 years and 2 kids ago. Size 14, for me, was pretty much the smallest size I’d ever been...
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Bliss is: Being Free to Run
This morning I ran. And it was the run I used to only be able to dream about running. It was light, fast, and easy. My legs felt strong and sleek in my fabulous Sugoi running tights. My ankles and hips were happy and doing their jobs. The freezing cold air felt soft and sweet on my face. I was running and there was no effort in it, just gently and happily moving my body through space. I felt like...
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Bliss is: Taking a Shit
You know I’m right! Being able to take a nice shit is completely wonderful. It’s a completely healthy and guilt-free pleasure. In fact, it’s even good for you, besides feeling terrific. Yet nobody really seems to pay much mind to this sweet pleasure. (Well, except Dr. Oz, who is obsessed with it.)
A lot of things can go wrong with your digestive tract. You could get Irritable...
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Or Maybe Not
My husband and son both had some sort of digestive woes after last night, and yet my daughter was completely fine, and we all basically ate the same meal. So… the message the Universe was sending may not be, “Eat more Paleo.” It may actually be, “You have bacteria in your kitchen somewhere.” I dunno! Also, oddly, nobody had the same digestive woes. I felt poorly right...
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Paleo Ah-Hah Moment
So, in Cordain’s book about the Paleo diet, he says it’s okay to have up to 3 open, or non-Paleo meals a week as you are transitioning to a Paleo lifestyle. Since we have Family Game Night every Wednesday around here, and we always have pizza — homemade, thank you very much, because I rock — I saved an open meal for tonight. I had 3 slices of pizza. They were quite...
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Choosing Uncertainty
One thing that’s been interesting as I’ve lost weight is the experience of becoming more visible. As I got fatter and older, had a couple of kids and had the fun drained out of my wardrobe and my demeanor, I got to be sort of invisible. Nobody turned his head to look at me; nobody really saw me anymore. And I sort of thought that this would be the normal state of affairs forever. But...
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Letting Yourself Be Fat
So last post, I mentioned that I let myself be fat for a good long while. And I think that’s really accurate. Being fat or thin, these are lifestyle choices. They are not easy choices, hah, if only. But as somebody with a lot of experience on the fat end and the losing weight end, I feel I do have the authority to say that it is a choice. Now, I will qualify that by saying that, just like...
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Miles to Go Before I Sleep
For many, many years, pretty much my whole life, I never had a good relationship with my body. I’m not really sure how it started. I know that I went on my first diet when I was only 10 years old. That was the year I first entered therapy, too. Also, right around that time I got to be taller and larger than my mom. I look back and I don’t know where I got the idea that I was so huge; I...
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The Heart of My Manifesto
Our only reason for existence is to experience bliss. Bliss opens our hearts and draws us into unity with our bodies and with the Universe.
The only way to experience bliss is with a body. In fact, the only way to experience anything is with a body. Since we only get one body, it is our most sacred duty to take care of the body. It is literally our most precious possession. There’s no replacement...
