Day 3 - #Write31Days - Challenges... How do you like to challenge yourself to meet your goals in writing, fitness, nutrition and finishing projects? One thing, that helps me feel like I am on the road to healthy, is getting my projects finished. Having undone projects makes me feel overwhelmed and unmotivated. Today, my goal … Continue reading No More Excuses – I’ve Gotta Get It Done! (Join Me As I Make a Coffee Theme Pocket Letter)
Six years ago, I walked into a gym. I had just earned a Masters Degree in Special Education, my dad had just passed away one week from my being done with school, with congestive heart failure and I weighed 300 pounds!!! I struggled with asthma, nerve damage in my legs from surviving meningitis at age 36 and ahost of other … Continue reading Positive Journeys – Crafting Our Way to Healthy (About Me)
Welcome to Positive Journeys. I signed up to do this - write a blog post - everyday for the month of October. #Write31Days - This series of blogs will mainly be about my Positive Journey of weight loss and fitness. How I went from being a couch potato at nearly 300 pounds to losing 115 pounds. My passion is … Continue reading Positive Journeys – Healthy Living and Crafting – #Write31Days
Really, truly, seriously, over a week is in this cast and it's not my cup of tea. I hate it!! I hate not having my independence or the freedom to go. Everything that I do is like a really intense workout. Getting up in the morning and going to the bathroom. Going out to the … Continue reading Being Grateful = Positive
So much is going on in my life right now. Being a total gym rat, at the gym 5 days a week, then having ankle surgery on Friday and having to be totally non weight bearing on my right ankle, which is in a cast for the time being - is making it really hard … Continue reading Being Positive
Being Positive is not easy - when one is faced with negative circumstances. My negative circumstance, currently, is having undergone ankle surgery on Friday and dealing with the pain. The burning, throbbing, sensation where my 4 cm incision is and having to keep my foot in a boot. Then on Tuesday, I get a cast … Continue reading Being Positive and Using My Passion Planner
It has been a long and eventful weekend. Lot of things going on. The eclipse happened and I really liked this picture of the American flag eclipsing the sun. My granddaughter started preschool and here she is on a Daddy/Daughter date. I love my son and granddaughter so much. They both make so happy. Hope … Continue reading This Week in Pictures
Today was a rough day, this week has been a rough week. Today, I had ankle surgery. The doctor (best foot and ankle doctor ever) did an ankle scope and a tendon repair of my peroneal tendon. I will be in a cast for 3 weeks and a boot for 3 weeks and 4 weeks … Continue reading Burdens and Backpacks
Today, I was at the top of the world. Well, it seemed like the top of the world. I was on the summit of Pikes Peak. Over 14,000 feet in elevation. Can you believe after all these years that I have lived in Colorado Springs, this was my first time all the way to the … Continue reading The Top of the World – Pikes Peak
Dear Reader, I am the queen of excuses. I kid you not. If there is a way I can weasel myself out of a workout or stay on my nutrition plan, I will find it and make the excuse. I have made a lot of them since I lost the first 115 pounds - then … Continue reading Excuse Busters
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