Naked again, and loving it!

You might recall that I (and my family) was a card-carrying member of various nudist clubs, depending on where we lived. When our daughter reached puberty, she got shy enough about it that we stopped going.
Well, she’s now 17, and prefers to not have anything to do with us anyway, and we have more freedom [...]

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My own little IronWoman

OK, so maybe it’s a bit farfetched to think of me ever doing an Ironman competition. First I’m highly non-competitive. I hate competition. Sure, winning is nice sometimes, but I could live quite happily in a world without competition.
But I have been able to be far more active since I changed how I talk to [...]

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Freedom Feelings

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein
Something is letting go inside of me. I hope it’s not [...]

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Exercise a little differently

Exercise on Monday worked both my legs and my upper arms. First, we walked around downtown Stuttgart to choose a place to eat dinner, and second, I nearly choked the living sh*& out of him for not being able to choose a restaurant until I was completely worn out from the walking. My right leg [...]

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Exercise as a comfort tool

My current affirmations include:

Eating that won’t help me with what’s on my mind
I want to go swimming. It helps me think clearly
I like being strong enough to go up the stairs at work without breathing hard

Rather than spending time thinking about my eating patterns and why I do or do not eat, I am providing [...]

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Normal Living by Accident

It’s been an odd week in IE-land.
First the scale breaks, and we haven’t gotten it fixed, so I have no idea what I weigh. I can only continue to eat intuitively and pay attention.
Then I get a great walk in, having gone to Strasbourg for the whole day on Wednesday. I was so tired that [...]

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The benefits of journaling and exercise

My moods can swing up and down. What I’ve been noticing lately is that they go down more often on days when I do not exercise or write a blog entry. There are those days when there just doesn’t seem time for anything like that, and it can show up in my eating.
At lunch today, [...]

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Intuitively eating, intuitively living

Everything seemed intuitive today. I slept well, then got up for some quiet time before DH awakes. My normal habit is to drink a couple of glasses of hot water, but I wasn’t thirsty, so I waited until later. Food wasn’t on my mind either, so I promised myself I’d eat whenever I got hungry.
DH [...]

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Help me find an exercise product

When I was in the US lately, there was an infomercial that promotes some exercise program. Can you help me figure out the name of the product? If you recognize the product I’m talking about, please let me know by either leaving a comment or send me an email. Email at livingrainbowcolor @ yahoo.com (scrunch [...]

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The Cheesecake Factory

The new pool I found isn’t one in which I can swim. It’s the local lake and it has a lovely park around it. I swam over the weekend, but this week I found that I prefer to take a walk with DH instead of swimming. Next week on Tuesday DD and I fly to [...]

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