Weight Loss

I missed you all last week.  It’s a busy time in my life – both personally and professionally. This blog’s intention is to write about small towns and small businesses, and my interaction with them.  I’ve partnered with Becky McCray and started a business, SaveYour.Town, where we help small towns grow.  I also am the…

I know it’s Monday.  I wanted to wait and write this after my pottery class and after my check in call with Randi. This week has been a time for reflection, creating self care habits and drinking from my own cup. One practice I put into place this week was the one of noticing, in…

Things are getting better.  Slowly.  This week has been a week of getting healthier and looking at being kinder to myself. Because if I don’t be kind to myself first, I can’t possibly be kind to anyone else nor expect anyone to be kind to me.  After years of being the caretaker I’ve finally realized…

So last week I WAS sick – bronchitis.  Dr. visit was called for because nonstop coughing is just not productive for sleep and wellness. How does affect my plans for improved health? I had to slow down. Lots of rest, not just sleep.  But rest.  Reading books, taking naps, not working long hours.  I’m good…

The back to school virus found its way into my house this week.  It feels like a cold heading towards bronchitis – but I’m told its a very nasty virus back in town.  My first instinct is to just work through it.  Sweat more, ignore the incessant coughing, go to work. But that’s not the…

My friend Erin shared a picture with me from 2008.  It really did knock my socks off – good God I looked awful! 2014 was just about as bad.  That’s when I started to think “I can do this.”  It’s a slow path, but a steady one. And since 2004 I’ve traveled the path always…

One of the hardest things about working out is how boring it can get. Seriously, that gym life can get pretty boring. Same machine.  Same yoga mat. Same same same. Lucky for me I’m pretty good at finding new opportunities to work out!  This week we had a new business owner that needed help pulling…

Of course you’ve heard all the hoopla – set goals, continue long after the motivation has gone, be your own hero, yadda yadda yadda. I’ve done that – set huge, bodacious goals in hopes that I could achieve them.  Lose 100 pounds!  Ride in RAGBRAI!! Climb a mountain!!  After six weeks or so, reality set…

I know, I’ve heard it already.  Seriously?  Pokemon Go?  A bunch of people walking around like zombies with heads in their phones … I started playing last Sunday.  Well, not really.  I started playing on Becky’s phone in Aberdeen in the middle of July.  We walked around downtown in search of Pokemon.  Sometimes we drove…