We're somewhere between winter and spring

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I just finished my online application for a paraprofessional librarian position at one of the local elementary schools. While I don't have any actual "librarian" experience, I know libraries like the back of my hand! They are some of my favorite places in this world! I'll never know if I can do it unless I try - right? Here goes nothing!

My 16 month old nephew broke his leg going down a slide! He got a cast on it Friday and has been here with us this weekend. So far he's doing a good job of getting around but he's mastered the art of "get me over there" gestures. He and I have worked on a lot of those marble tunnel sculptures, much to my enjoyment. I build them and he sends marbles down them... and then gets excited and beats them back to pieces.

My sister has lost 33 lbs. in the last year with just diet and exercise. It's amazing to see her results because the girl has MUSCLES but it's also very depressing. I've always been the biggest in my family but seeing that it can be done does something for my psyche. I need to be better about, if nothing else, eating better. It wouldn't kill me to get on the treadmill, though!

The muse has been gracious this week! I may have those QueerFest stories done in time, after all!

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[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

I badly need to lose weight, but 30 pounds is about as far as I can lose before my body get's used to everything and I'm stuck. *headdesk*

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

She has fought hard for those 33 pounds and I'm not sure if I want to work that hard! She's plateaued but her trainer doesn't actually want her to lose more weight at the moment. They're at maintenance right now.

I, on the other hand, would have to lose more than 30 pounds but that would definitely put me on the right track. *sigh*

[daxcat79.livejournal.com]

I need to lose a whole nother person... so yeah... ugh!

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your application!

Oh, no for your nephew! Glad to hear he's handling it well, though. My sister jumped off the top bunk bed and cracked her heel when she was fairly young, too. So, kids can be pretty resilient.

I know the feeling about the weight loss and being the heaviest. That's been pretty much me, too. It's not so much about the weight, but about how I feel when I look in the mirror and how healthy I feel. I've started to loose weight, in part because I've started training in running. The point isn't so much loosing weight, but that I want to be able to run three miles. I haven't even been able to run one mile really since I was a teenager, which makes me feel weak and slow. The accomplishment of being able to do the run drives me more than the thought of loosing weight.

The other thing that's helped me is that I downloaded a calorie tracker to my iPhone, called My Fitness Pal. I'm not very strict about it, but what it's done is just make me more conscious about what I'm eating and how much and what the calories are in what I've been eating, and that consciousness has contributed to my making better choices (for me).

Honestly, it's all about what makes you feel great about yourself. Being heavy isn't a bad thing, unless it bothers you. Sometimes it takes experimenting to find what makes you feel strong, healthy, and happy. (It took me until I was in my 30s to figure it out and I'm still experimenting.)

And yay for the active muse!! Hurrah!

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Yeah, I need to lose a whole person. I hope they don't take all the good things about me when they finally go!

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

*crossing all my fingers* I'm hoping good things come from it!

Will's kind of adorable when he's trying to get around. If only adults looked that adorable with broken appendages!

I've never given much thought to my weight until recently. I was just that friend. The heavy one. All groups have to have them. But I've always made sure that I stayed strong. I'm not a blob so much as a behemoth. Sure, my knees hate me but I'm not that far gone. I just can't get to that place where diet and exercise take over my life. That's what it's going to take. I'm already sick to death of the conversations with my sister because they revolve around 1)the exercises she's doing, 2)needing new clothes or 3)what she's eating. I don't want to be there yet. Yet! But it's coming soon. I'm just fighting it, I think. I've got to find a happy medium!

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

If you're not ready, your not ready. You don't, in fact, ever have to be ready, if you don't want to. That's perfectly okay, and I can totally understand being annoyed by the conversation going the same direction every time. Bleh.

I honestly don't think it has to take over your life. For some people it does and that's all well and good for them, but I have no interest in letting it take over my life. I have way too much else going on, too many other things I love to do and be in order to become obsessed over just this one aspect.

But if you think exercising more might be a good thing, try finding some activity that you enjoy doing and do it because it's fun to do and because it makes you feel good after doing it. I would not be able to keep up with the running if I didn't passionately want to be able to run three miles (something I've been wanting to do forever). If I didn't want to do it, then it would be miserable and what would be the point.

I recommend casting around for something you might have fun doing, from swing dancing to swimming to yoga to rock climbing to hiking to walking around the city discovering new places. Whatever moves you to move.

I also make sure not to over train, you know, when you do a workout and feel destroyed afterwards and don't ever want to workout again. I work out just enough to feel challenged, but refreshed by the end, which makes me want to do it again.