Janelle

I don't think I ever realized how much weight impacted my general outlook in life. Having lost 100 pounds in a little over 8 months, the physical changes are certainly huge, but the emotional ones are probably just as big. My confidence level is so much higher. I'm so much happier in general.

A couple of weeks ago, I needed to get some new jeans. Mine were falling off of me, literally. I had perused some websites and found a cute pair at Lane Bryant. I went shopping one day...

I have been so excited about losing weight. I finally felt that I was ready to date again. So, I joined eHarmony and have been meeting eligible men. One of particular interest lived just 15 minutes from me, so after a couple of weeks of email, we decided to have lunch. Well, after three weeks of contact (all of which was great), he decided after meeting me that he didn't want to continue anything with me. Obviously, it was still the weight that did for him. I really just hate dating. I guess...

Well, it finally happened to me. I've been expecting to plateau for a couple of weeks now, and it happened this week. I know I need to get in some real exercise, so that's what I'm going to do. I have two dogs who desperately need to be walked, so I have two incentives for getting off my duff.

I haven't dropped in clothing sizes like I would have expected either. I guess all those elastic waisted pants have just stretched out to accomodate my growing girth! I seem to have lost...

Sitting here tonight, I've thought about the path my life was on two years ago. Then, I was engaged, moving to Birmingham, and planning a future with a man I loved. I had applied to go to graduate school at the University of Alabama and bought a four door car with expectations of putting two car seats in the back. Isn't it funny how life comes along and screws up your plans?

Within a couple of months of making these plans, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and chronic...

The weather was lovely today. I decided to run an evening errand. I got in my freshly scrubbed car, put on my sunglasses, and proceeded to cruise (as cooly as one can cruise in a 4 door sedan) to Turkey Creek to do a little shopping. I cranked up some music and just drove. On the way home, I was reminded of all those times when I owned the Miata and just cruised around. I was not tiny then, but I was certainly sassy. I was a voluptuous, vampy little thing. Now, I see a middle aged, frumpy...