Articles tagged with loss
How to Use Twitter to Gain More Periscope Followers
Periscope is a live broadcasting (streaming) app that allows anyone with a compatible phone to broadcast almost anything at any time. Each broadcast is saved for just 24 hours unless the user decides to download and upload their broadcast some place else o
Avocado, Apple and Pineapple Smoothie
Yes, yes, I know some of you will look at this post and think: #Avocado is horrible #Smoothies are not food But occasionally, I like to try my hand at smoothie making, and over the last few months have made (and survived drinking) smoothies using co
Making sense of tragedy
Tragedy can strike anyone at any time. A death in the family, a serious accident, financial or personal disasters, may cause us to ask the question "Why me" or make us wonder why this could have happened to someone else, like a criminal or really bad
One of My Old Friends Passed Away Last Month
I should have posted this sooner, but it’s not exactly something you -want- to write about. But I guess I should post it now…I had a specific group I hung out with during and even a few years after high school. While a bunch of us drifted, we
Weight Loss Calculator
Since I bought a little black dress that is a bit snug for my liking, I decided that losing a few pounds would solve that too-snug problem. I entered my age, current weight, height, gender and activity level into an online weight-loss calculator t
Life Isn't Fair: Calories
How's come I can gain a pound or two just by looking at delicious but high-calorie food in photos or film, but I can't subtract the calories I pass by, untasted? If life were fair, that piece of chocolate candy I wanted -- but did not eat -- should be som
Tips on Losing Weight
I have been trying for so long to lose weight. Since I was in my senior high school year, I have had problems with my weight especially excess flabs on my tummy area. I was able to lose weight as soon as I started working but come my first pregnancy, my tu
article review: "When Animals Mourn" by Barbara J. King
It is author Barbara King’s contention that some animals mourn the loss of a companion animal. A mother may mourn the loss of her infant, for example. She says she did not start out believing this, but after years observing animals in the w
A new fresh start.... AGAIN!!!
Grrrr im so annoyed with my failed attempts at dieting, its silly cus i know the only person that can make that change is myself. I know i have come a long way, Ive battled with eating disorder issues since i was 6 years old and Ive kind of made myself a
The "Old Fat Woman" and the Race Against Myself
Four years ago, I lost 52 pounds. It wasn't easy. There were some huge stumbling blocks along the way, and I found that I still have some raw nerves in my emotional makeup that have never gone away. At one point, after I had lost about
Finally! Some good news about my serious eye issue!
I mentioned a time or two that a blood clot burst in my retina last January (2014). It was an extremely serious situation on many levels and I have been having injections into my eye (Yes, into my eyeball!) for months to keep the swelling in the retina dow
Is It Even Possible to Get Abs?
Nowadays, everyone is selling products that they claim can help you get six pack abs, make it quite evident that a lot of people are trying for them. Lots of people, in the starting only work out so much that before reaching the target they get tired and
Well, that's no loss
Have you read about the closure of a shop, failing of a company or even the death of someone and thought: 'That's no #loss'? I know I have been thinking that quite a bit lately, with all the #doom and #gloom in the news this year. Maybe it's just that I'm
Death in the Family
We got news today of a death in the extended family. It's a relative that I never met, because of physical and emotional distances that existed long before I joined the family. I had never so much as exchanged an email with this person, or even friended he
My first weigh in on the low carb high fat challenge
Well today is my first weigh in since i declared last Thursday that i was going to go back on my low carb high fat eating plan. Ill be honest and admit i didn't actually start it on the Thursday, i didn't start it until Monday morning, i just didn't have
low carb weight challenge
Ive had problems with my weight and have issues with eating disorders since i was about 6 years old , im currently about 6 stone over weight and Ive always struggled to lose it. In January i was diagnosed with diabetes and after a search online i found a
