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I love getting catalogs, and one of my favorites is the Pyramid Collection.  So a little while back, I came home and was delighted to see that I had a new catalog.  The cover bothered me.  It said Goddess Sizing at No Extra Charge.  By goddess sizing, they meant plus sizing.  Since this is a blog post and not all readers know me,  I am now well into what my doctor’s chart refers to as obese.  I am a size 16, which is very close to “goddess size.”  This is not a disagreement with Pyramid Collection for their attempt to fairly price women’s clothing regardless of size.  Nor it is an attempt to make women conform to obscene standards that often qualify as starving under the World Health Organization.  It just got me thinking.  “Goddess” and “sizing” in the same phrase.  What size would the goddess want me to be?  I have to say it is not Supermodel size nor is it plus sizing.  We all know that too much weight is not good for our health.  It is hard on our hearts, joints, and internal organs.  Eating healthy food and exercising is good for our bodies and mental health.

As a Wiccan woman, one goal is that in a circle I will be able to be the body that houses the Goddess.  Part of our faith is that the Goddess resides in us always.

Then came the thought of the Rede.  “In that it harm none, do what you will.”  I am part of those who I am not to harm.  My weakness for anything with high fructose corn syrup and every other form of “-ose” is harming me.  It is not good for me.  The Goddess would want more for me.  Don’t I owe it to myself and my respect of the gift of life I was given to care for the body that houses me?

Next, came the thought of “Know Thyself.” Those wonderful words from the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.  If I keep private about what I do, I WILL cheat.  I will just keep wondering why I continue to be obese while sneaking Little Debbies on the way home from work.  So I am going to use the forums to keep me honest.  If I cheat I will post it.  If I follow a healthy diet, I will post that too.  Any others that care to join me are welcome.  Those sadists out there are welcome to watch the carnage.

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Oh so untrue! I was munching those chips lastnight.  Today I had the cheesey crackers.

I'm game for joining you Cricket.

I currently weigh 255 lbs.  On Jan 1st 2008, I weighed in at 273 lbs. For the next two months I hope to lose alot of weight with a very strict regimine and lots of exercise.  

I know what its like to try to lose weight. What I am doing is I have switched from 3 large meals to 6 small meals.  I am also trying to eat as organic as possible.   Organic in the way it is grown and as natural as I can to mother nature as possible.  I am eliminating the processed foods and trying to eat them as close to its natural state as possible.    I have never been a sweet eater, but when I do get a craving for them, its a pretty bad one! 

I can say, I agree with the other lady, I am afraid of changing.  These past few months I have kept a food journal and I also write about how I am feeling whenever I eat…what I am doing at the time, time of day it is, what the weather is like, everything I possibly can to see the connection I have to food.  I have learned that I self-sabatage myself all the time.  Using a journal was/is a real eye opener for me. The biggest thing I have a hard time with is sweet tea. I have a hard time giving up sugar.

Good luck to you trying to live a healthier life!

Crystal

@Crystal a food journal is a great idea.  I am going to hop on that bandwagon and write down all the crud  I shove in my face.

I will join too!  Since I work in the school system I have the summer off and all I have been doing is snacking, snacking, snacking (not healthy snacks either)!  So I will also post when I am doing well and when I am doing bad.  I'm also going to do a food journal too.  That sounds like it is a very helpful tool.  I know when I get bored I tend to snack.  I try to buy healthy snacks but my son (9 yrs old) and husband constantly say “there's nothing good to snack on” so I end up buying the processed snacks (little debbies, cosmic brownies, chips, etc).  So I will try to “convert” my family into HEALTHY eaters.  I don't know how successful it will be but I will try.  I also want to honor the goddess in me by treating my body like a temple not a trash bag!  Good luck to everyone who is jumping on this crazy bus! 

Breakfast was one of my problem areas too.

Hello, my name is Crystal and I am a McDonald's addict.  At least I used to be.  You know its sad when you pull in to the drive thru's intercom screen and instead of saying “Welcome….”, they say “Hi Crystal, the usual this morning?”  That for me was an eye opener. That is also when I knew I needed to stop going there! LOL 

Now my breakfasts range from a day to day basis and I stay clear of the golden arches!  My typical menus for breakfast now are:

1.  Slice of Toast or bagel with peanut butter

2. Hard boil egg and pkg of instant oatmeal

3. bowl of good ol' cheerios with 1 banana sliced.

4. my version of the Egg McMuffin:  1 microwaved egg (I got this container from tupperware that cooks it to almost the same size) I throw some precooked bacon bits in it before cooking. then I put it on toast with a slice of cheese.  Alot healthier than the other version.  I know that nuking it is still bad, but I am not big on cooking in the morning either.  It only takes a few minutes to prepare and only one minute to cook.

Well, thanks to “Admin” for posting for me.  I have done very well.  I have been focusing on eating when hungry and then not eating everything infront of me.  Right now I am focusing on my bad habits.  Stress eating and bordem eating.  Eating does not get rid of my stress, it just adds to it in about 10 minutes when I realize all I have just eaten for no reason.  I did pretty good this week with that.  I stopped myself on the way to the vending machine more than once.  The lady that sits by the machine must think I am insane.  (She is a little annoying and needy so I don't much care what she thinks of me.)  This weekend was BAD.  Our son invited a ton of people to his birthday, which was to be for family only.  I then had no idea how much food to buy.  I was nervous that we would not have enough, so WAY over bought.  Now we had to finish off pizza and cheesecake all weekend.  I will not even discuss the chive cream cheese spread….At least there was salad.

Still sitting at about the same weight.  School starts next week that will help because I can actually get some treadmill time in without the lil guy wanting to hop on the thing.  I also found this hundred push-up challenge Both Cricket and I are going to give it a shot.  How is everyone else doing?

Oh my goddess!  I sooo suck at posting things!  I have been doing o.k.  but my downfall is energy drinks!  I work 3 jobs so I usually drink 2 energy drinks a day and with the sugar content it gets ridiculous.  I have been drinking the sugar free but it's not the same.  I admit it I AM A SUGAR ADDICT!   but I'm trying to work on it.  I need to drink some coffee for the caffeine but my husband can't stand the smell of it in our house so it's kinda hard to start the day off with a good cup of coffee.  I really haven't been snacking to badly.  We got this HUGE watermelon so I've been trying to snack on that instead of chips and I haven't bought any either so that really helps.