Victoriously Broken Podcast Interview: Sitting Through Your Pain
"if I was to see someone that I considered a friend and they came up and kicked me…there would be the physical pain, but there will also be the pain of betrayal from a friend, which is its own pain. And so, I think that part of the nuance of it all is that, you kind of accepting the pain feels like you're saying it's okay but now I'm getting to the understanding it doesn't mean that you accept the pain, it doesn't mean that you accept what happened to you, it doesn't mean that you accept the b
Making Strides for Survival
2013 Making Strides for Breast Cancer Walk, a set on Flickr. I walked my first survivor walk about 12 years ago in memoriam of my great aunt who passed away […]
Butts and Guts
Friday, I used my lunch break to explore downtown Charleston, West Virginia while at a convention. After a few steps, I noticed smoking was apparently the norm. Outside the back […]
Slow and Steady or Complacent?
A couple years ago, my water bill started to increase a little bit each bill cycle. Last summer, my son noticed a leak in the basement. When a family friend […]
Staying Connected
Getting Connected Sometimes I think it would be cool to go on a reality show about weight loss where I could just focus on weight loss for a couple months. A few […]
No Pain No Gain
“People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous… Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, […]
Be Honest With Yourself
Where Did the Week Go? I can’t believe it’s Wednesday! There was Friday. Friday morphed into Memorial Day. Then Memorial Day became Wednesday. At least that’s how I remember it. […]
The Next Step
The First Step I am sure I have broken a record on the amount of weight loss and exercise books and literature I have consumed through the years. Every couple […]
Love, Drive, and Desire
Untamed and Unafraid This past week has been all kinds of disappointing and stressful. I have had some success; I am down 6 pounds and I have met my daily […]
Same old, Same old
Have you ever found yourself in the same position that you started from? Whether it’s trying to lose the same the 30 pounds you lost two years ago or (another) […]
Healthy Les – Grocery List
The grocery store can be a scary place when you are on a budget or watching your diet. So, I went armed: I had my list of things to pick […]
April Fresh – A Healthy Les
Day 1 – April 16, 2012. Completed First Workout of 90. I hope that you enjoyed the first series of 2012 – The Tru Story: Explicit. The next series will […]