J Makes Waves

Today I've hit a bit of a blogging wall. Maybe my brain's just a bit tired on this Friday night. Fair enough. But in the spirit of staying authentic, I'm just putting it right out there with all of you. That's cool, yeah? We all hit walls, don't we. I can't tell you the number of plateaus I've gotten stuck on during my weight loss journey. I remember being stuck around 94-96kg, and a biggie at 82-83 (I reckon that one lasted more than a year), and another really long one at 76-79. Bouncing around like a ping pong ball, I was, but not progressing for months and months. Gee it's so tempting to give up at those times. Here are a few of my top tips for continuing on the journey uphill, through the wilderness and surrounded by doughnuts. 1. Don't give up, even when it seems like you're failing. Speak words of life to yourself, eg. "This is a temporary struggle, I'll get through this" rather than words that kill off your hope: ...

So many of us girls have grown up with an inner pressure to be nice all the time. To get along with people and be helpful, even when it is to our own detriment. It's something I continue to struggle with on a daily basis. But something about the line in Steffany Gretzinger's song on my previous post gives me pause: Love doesn't hold its tongue. A few years ago while working as a nurse in general practice, a colleague told me about the positive changes her patients were having with low carb eating.  It was a pivotal point for me. In usual practice, we health professionals typically tell people to cut out sugar in their diets (especially if they have diabetes or pre-diabetes), but we tend to forget that carbohydrates are made up of long chains of sugar (glucose) molecules. This means we only give them a half truth - we tell them to cut out sugar, but don't really discuss carbs. Sometimes patients see an initial improvement from cutting out the sugar, but ultimate...