http://www.desertofmydreams.com Noor's Blog Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:36:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent most of this last weekend at home with a really ugly cold/cough. You know the type of cold where all you want to do is just sleep, watch TV, drink juice, and eat some soup. It sucked. And since I couldn't really do anything other ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/07/en-francais/ One of the things I've been doing to commemorate losing 80 pounds is collecting 80 pounds of food to donate to Second Harvest. For the past few weeks, every time I'd go to the grocery store, I'd also pick up a bunch of stuff from Second Harvest's most needed ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/06/80-pounds-of-food/ I've been meaning to blog about my mini-vacation to Yosemite but since it has been a few weeks I don't know that I have much to say anymore. One of my friends from grad school whom I hadn't seen in a couple of years was coming to the area ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/05/yosemite-2010/ What a great way to start the weekend - I finally got to 80 pounds! Technically, I'm down 80.6 pounds since January 2007, which is pretty amazing given this statistic: Only about 20 percent of obese or overweight people who lose at least 10 percent of their initial body weight ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/05/806/ I've got a perfect body, but sometimes I forget I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat - Regina Spektor - Folding Chair I haven't hit the 80 pound mark yet but I'm getting very close. I won't say how close I am because I don't really want to ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/05/now-ive-been-sitting-on-this-abandoned-beach-for-years/ Remember my post in February about how I was feeling like I was progressing again and feeling really positive about my weight loss? Yeah, umm, that was nice for like a few weeks. If only losing weight was always so consistent and great all the time. Most of February was actually ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/04/hindsight/ I was thinking the other day about how at this time in my life there are some things that I'm pretty certain of. These my truths, my facts. The funny thing is that I don't think that I've always been so certain of these things and my truths ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/03/things-im-certain-of/ I turned 30 on March 12th. I decided to celebrate my birthday by taking myself to Maui for ten days. There is something really special about traveling alone for leisure. I find it extremely rewarding, fulfilling, and liberating to set off somewhere and just explore. Maui ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/03/my-30th-birthday/ 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 ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/02/when-people-notice/ 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 ... http://www.desertofmydreams.com/2010/02/not-stuck-in-reverse/