In a few days part of my family is moving West, and thus will begin the massive changes occurring in my life over the next 12 months, and the beginning of plans for the future. This is one of the people that I have tried so hard to make proud of me, and I will [...]

Today was a bad day. It started last night with some bad eating choices and some very bad bodily reactions to those choices. I am gradually coming up with a list of things I should not eat when I’m off the medication that usually stops the acid reflux and worse. During the day today, I [...]

Yesterday, as always, was spent at my father’s house with the other side of the family. It was quite fun, and though I ended up feeling guilty at the end of the day for everything I had eaten, it wasn’t actually that much now that I look back on it. The bad part of the [...]

The turkey is in the oven, the guest are on their way and what was once a big pile of presents under the tree is now a garbage bag full of wrapping paper and smaller piles of presents around the house. I did get some sugar-filled snacks as part of Christmas this year, including my [...]

Christmas Eve. Today I have many things to do to prepare for cooking my first Christmas dinner. I’m also expecting my family over this evening to unwrap our presents, though the Mr. and I will be saving our gifts to each other until tomorrow morning as per his request. Of course, right now we don’t [...]

Baked three dozen cookies today, chocolate chips, jam and icing sugar – but they’re all for the family coming over tomorrow evening.

The hardest part about this whole thing is going to be losing weight, partly because PCOS makes it more difficult to lose weight and partly because I have a lifetime of junk food and sugar to wean myself off. Already, through prompting I have cut Coke out of my life, which is huge considering I [...]

Everything about me has to change. The way I spend and save, what eat and the way I think about food, the way I dress. I have a few more months to really get my act together before my life changes completely. Starting right now, the Christmas season, I am going to overhaul everything about [...]