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Our Health, Our Responsibility

As a nurse currently working in the healthcare system, I can honestly say that I believe it to be broken. Doctor’s visits and hospital visits are not meant to make a person healthy. Those visits are meant to address an illness or injury that a person is dealing with at that time. If youContinue reading “Our Health, Our Responsibility”

Week 12

238.6# Making progress slowly, but not giving up. I started at 249# 12 weeks ago. Total weight loss 11.4# and 23.4# from my heaviest. I am still losing one pound a week. My new short term goal is 229#. I found a quote today that related to my slow and steady progress. I liked it,Continue reading “Week 12”

Week 8!?

Time flies too quickly. I have failed to post for several weeks now. Total weight lost – 9 pounds. I am down to 240. It hasn’t been easy. I lost, then gained, then lost some more. An average of 1 pound per week isn’t bad. I was recently reminded, that about 2 years ago, IContinue reading “Week 8!?”

Week 2

246 lbs “It’s not a short term diet. It’s a long term lifestyle change.” I have lost 3 pounds over the past week. I am very surprised, as I was not as consistent with exercise as I hoped to be, and we celebrated my husband’s birthday by eating out and having cake one day, thenContinue reading “Week 2”

Week 1

249# This is a little scary. I have some anxiety, but I am going to invite you along with me on my journey to better health. Let me share a little about me. I am 53 years old. I am a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and an RN, and I am morbidly obese atContinue reading “Week 1”

Stinky Hoodies

When my little girl was a baby, I played a game with her called “stinky hoodies”. I would put my nose to her little chubby toes and exclaim “Eeeewwwww, stinky hoodies!” while making all sorts of faces. She would laugh uncontrollably. Every. Single. Time. It was her favorite game. She is now a young lady,Continue reading “Stinky Hoodies”

Changing Me

Sometimes we allow life to control us.

Changing-Me

I am an RN. I have worked as a school nurse, all over the hospitals, in critical care, on the cardiac floor, orthopedics, in ICUs, and now in hospice. I have worked with those who have injured themselves, those who have lived in poor health throughout their lives, those who have contracted diseases that hadContinue reading “Changing-Me”