Choices choices choices. Sometimes you can’t understand the present until you really look back at all the choices of your past. Even better when your memories of yourself, your mate and your weight get more tangled as you go. My parents called me their Korean War orphan as a child — I was that...
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My Husband Made Me Eat It
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My Husband Made Me Eat It
Hey! What Does a Girl Have to Do to Get a Compliment?
Know what I loved about losing weight? The compliments! For the first thirty or so pounds, even I could see little difference. Nobody said anything. Then my weight loss began to be noticeable. By the time I moved from obese to just overweight, people made favorable comments regularly. When I left overweight for “normal,”...
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My Husband Made Me Eat it
Who’s In Charge Here?
Keeping the weight off is lots harder for me than taking off those 130 pounds was: everything reminds me of food again. While I was losing at a steady pace for almost two years, I could push away thoughts of how wonderful food tastes by calculating how soon I would be healthy and thin...
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