Posts Categorized: Life’s a Butter Dream
Life’s a Butter Dream – Author M.J. Pullen blogs about body image, weight loss (and gain) (and loss again), fitness and struggling to stay healthy as a working mom. When my oldest son, Skywalker, was a toddler, he used to sing “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily… life’s a butter dream.” And he’s right!
In the process of packing today, I pulled some things out of a junk drawer I hadn’t thought about in a while: six little blue and green ceramic vegetables. Two pea pods, two string beans and two eggplants. Anyone who has been in our house knows that I often have things stashed in unexpected places, […]
At this point in the weight loss cycle, I’ve been through denial, more or less hit bottom (or top, if you’re looking at a graph of pounds) and started the rebound. One or two small successes generally get me on the road and then that warm, fuzzy inspired feeling takes hold. This is the jazzed […]
Moving day is (hopefully) just a few days a way, and I am scuttling around like… like a scuttle-bug, trying to make all the various pieces of the process fit together: preparing for closing, repairs in both places, packing, etc. Some days are like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, and other days are like putting […]
After the epic battle (or at least, slightly elevated conversation) between my Ego and Superego, the denial stage of weight loss grinds to an unhappy halt. No longer can I ignore the upward creeping of the scale, and the rationalizations begin to wear so thin that I can see through them clear to the nearest […]
Today’s blog is inspired by the fact that — as of this morning — I am 11 pounds down since the beginning of summer and only 6.5 to go before I hit my pre-pregnancy weight. Anyway, it got me thinking about how many times I’ve ridden the weight loss roller coaster over the last 20+ […]
I had surreal experience the other day. There I was, driving down the road toward the Marietta Square, when something caught my eye. It was one of those promotional signs people put in their yards in support of an election candidate. Not unusual, except that I recognized the name. Not from commercials or the newspaper […]
First I want to say thanks for all the supportive feedback on my 30/30 experiment. I’ve already received some great ideas for blogs, and please keep them coming! A couple of the suggestions I’ve received are for blogs are about how my life and perspective have changed as the mother of a one-year-old (interestingly enough, […]
There is an ancient story I’ve heard told and retold in different forms for years, with the original dating back to Rumi, the 13th Century Persian poet. Or possibly even before that. This is a slightly modernized version I heard from my wonderful teacher, the great Coleman Barks. Stop me if you’ve heard it. A […]
Rosh Hashanah has passed, Yom Kippur is on its way… It’s time for the Apology Blog. I just read my blog from two years ago, and I could almost cut and paste, because I’m having many of the same feelings today. And I noticed that many of the wrongs to which I referred are pretty […]
It’s the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. So we are two days into 5771, as well as the High Holidays, otherwise known as Yamim Noraim (the Days of Awe). I love this time of year. The ten days from the start of Rosh Hashanah to the end of Yom Kippur are […]
