Fasting today really helped me with my focus. It also quite sharply brought to light the amount of truly mindless eating I do. This morning First gave her familiar whine of “I don’t like this!” and left some yoghurt and part of a banana unfinished. I almost automatically went to finish it up. It makes [...]
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That Second Step Is A Doozy
Today has been a pretty miserable failure as far as all of my goals have been concerned. I’ve barely recorded my food intake and most of my chores didn’t get done. I did manage to keep from raising my voice today, which was nice. I know the issue is that I didn’t take my medication [...]
The New Regime
This transparency thing is hard. Awareness is hard. Mindfulness is hard. Only half way through the day and I’ve already raised my voice to Second. It was a knee-jerk reaction to her knocking over a pile of clean laundry I had just folded. I’m assigning myself another day of nutritional discipline for every transgression. The [...]
Sunday Night Special
Dr. Strangelove and I have a little Sunday night ritual. I strip and lie down across his lap. We talk about our week and our goals and all the other sweet stuff we need to talk about. And I get paddled for a good, long time. It’s a nice way to reconnect. It also serves [...]
