The Desert of My Dreams

When you’ve lost about a third of your body weight, people seem to notice it and make comments about it. Living my whole life in a fat body, I always thought that I’d really like it when people noticed that I’d lost weight. My weight has yo-yoed throughout the years and I may […]

There are lots of foods (Michael Pollan would argue that they’re food-like substances but anyway) that I consider bingeable, stuff that I have a hard time not devouring all in one sitting. My list of bingeables is long but it includes anything from ice cream, chocolate, fresh-baked bread, Wheat Thins, cashews, Clif Bars, to […]

I can’t sleep so I’m going to blog in the hopes that I’ll get tired enough to fall back asleep! Last night, I finished reading Half-Assed by Jennette Fulda. It is a weight loss memoir that I stumbled upon last weekend at Borders (apparently there is a whole genre of weight loss memoirs). […]

I’m a bit astonished that it has been over two months since my last post but it really should be no surprise to me since I’ve had little to say about my leg injury or my weight loss (and that’s really all that’s consumed my personal life the past few months). It feels like […]

As of this morning, I’ve lost seventy pounds (70.4 to be exact) since January 2007. I’m excited and proud of myself but I have to say that I’m more relieved than anything else. It sounds kind of crazy but I just realized that it has taken me nine months to get from 60 […]

Earlier this month, I saw a physiatrist about my back/leg injury. I can’t say that I was too impressed with him since I found him dismissive and rushed. And he told me to exercise - somehow the “I noticed this sharp pain in my leg when I was RUNNING” and “I try to […]

You should listen to this song while reading this post.
I’m not sure what it is about flying but I seem to do some of my deeper (read: better) thinking during airplane rides. Perhaps it is being so physically above everything that makes up my world. Perhaps it is the prolonged periods of time […]

A friend of mine emailed me this morning wondering how I could possibly not have updated my blog since May 15th?!? She even started to wonder if her Blackberry had it wrong.
Her Blackberry didn’t have it wrong - I just haven’t had much to say lately. I wake up, I weigh myself, I […]

The more that I think about the process of losing weight the more that I realize that losing weight is a rather physical process that is deeply rooted in abstraction. I find that abstract nature of the process to be fascinating, frustrating, and merely confounding. On a cognitive level, I totally understand the […]

My weight loss has slowed down over the past month or so. I’m still averaging about a pound a week, which is great, but I haven’t had a 2 or 3 pound week in months. I think the slow down could be attributed to a number of factors - I have less weight […]