I came across an article, in one of my fitness magazines, that gave this statistic: "Nearly one in five Americans has been diagnosed with anxiety...and the average American diet promotes anxiety. The processed foods that we say are our comfort creates "biochemical conditions that weaken emotional resilience and spur anxiety." Maybe that's why I feel … Continue reading Emotional Eating Day 2 – Comfort Food and Life
Emotional eating - probably my number one downfall to nutrition. I eat when I am sad. I eat when I am depressed. I eat when I am mad. I eat when I am happy. Pretty much, I can constantly be eating, cuz I am a very emotional person. So during the next 30 days, I … Continue reading Emotional Eating – Being Debbie
Day Two and already I'm beginning to have doubts about this #Write31Days. I really should have wrote an outline before beginning this. I've been pondering all day - the WHY - for joining and writing this blog challenge. I think I have figured it out.... Yesterday... I wrote about the beginnings of my fitness journey … Continue reading We’ve Only Just Begun
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
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
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
Blog Post #6 - This is my week. It was a pretty good week. I realized that just going cold turkey into veganism - will not quite work for me - for some people it may, but this is going to have to be a gradual change. I started Monday and by Wednesday, I was … Continue reading This Week in Pictures
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones - Chinese Proverb I was thinking this week. How many times have I started a fitness routine, a new nutrition plan, some type of challenge and told myself that this time I was not gonna mess up, give up, or get fed … Continue reading Fitness Friday! Routines
Blog Post #3 - My second compilation from my journals - from when I first started my fitness, weight loss and healthy living journey. I think it's important to have a bucket list. A bucket list keeps you motivated and motivation fuels commitment. My Bucket List write a mystery novel and get it published go full time RVing … Continue reading Journal Compilations of Positively, Debbie #2 – Bucket List and Commitments
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