Love your posts keep them coming :) As for the phone thing, definately get the iPhone! I love love love mine! I am able to download apps to help me stay on task and also have a link to each of your sites right from my main screen

Again, i appreciate your efforts and commitment to helping all of us out here :)

“The funny thing is that once I had lost the weight I realized that I was that person all along, it was just that I felt confident enough to let her out.”

That’s how I feel too… like having my son kicked me in the pants and made me realize all the things I wasn’t doing and then losing the weight got me back to where I was suppose to be. If that makes sense. :)

Thanks so much for sharing!

-Roni

Have fun squash hunting! :)

I lost 70 pounds six years ago and have maintained roughly the same weight since. Like yourself a found an equilibrium at a slightly higher point than the initial finishing point. Whilst losing weight I started to exercise starting with long walks, then gym work and about three years ago progressed to running, which I absolutely adore. I go through phases where I have to ease back due to injury or recovering from my surgery (june this year) but now don’t panic too much as I know that this is just part of the process and that sometimes I’ll have to walk/run and gradually build myself back up. I still find it difficult to allow myself the label of being a runner.
AND finally to answer your question!! – although the answer is a bit long winded. Whilst growing up I was led to believe that I was fat. My father always made comments about peoples size and would attach the lazy, greedy, ugly labels in various formats to anybody who was fat. I was always compared to my sister who has a much smaller build than myself and being a child I didn’t understand that he was wrong (unfortunately my mother didn’t try to stop this). To cut an extremely long story short – by my teens I had no concept of what I looked like and had no idea of what it felt like to be full and empty (It brings me to tears now when I see pictures of myself as a teenager – a normal sized person who saw nothing but ugliness and a body twice the size). As an adult I became that fat person and it wasn’t until my late thirties that I started to lose weight. The catalyst for that being a break away from another destructive relationship (my husband) and the support of my sister and my girls. I didn’t set out to lose weight but became happier with life in general which seemed to spark the believe that I could become the person I wanted to be. The funny thing is that once I had lost the weight I realized that I was that person all along, it was just that I felt confident enough to let her out.
sorry if a bit too long (I’m usually a very concise writer).

I’m intrigued by spaghetti squash. I made pasta fairly often for the boyfriend, and I always wish there were a lighter alternative for me. Are they in season now? Can you find one out of season or do you just have to wait?