Annnnnnd Welcome Back!
PoBo has been on an extended VERY EXTENDED vacation.  I stopped posting when I realized I was the only one posting here.  I didn’t want it to be all about meeeeeeeeeee!
However, I need to refocus myself.  I need to have a place where I can document my weight loss attempts– wins and failures [...]

Where IS everyone?  I offer a contest and ONLY ONE PERSON ENTERS???  /cry  Where are all the other posters?  Why is this turning into the POMO site?  Y’all we need POSTS!!!!!
I have an update for you all.  Today was weigh in day.  I lost another 7.4 lbs.  WOOOOOT!  ::Does Snoopy Happy Dance:: I am now [...]

Well, not really. What you want to do is to eat more often. This is the first thing that my trainer told me when we first started out (the second thing was to drink between 70-100 ounces of water every day). See, what happens is that when we go into a starvation cycle, that is, [...]

I am the official POBO Fail Whale.
It seems like this summer has just been one crisis after another, one stressor after another, one more reason for me to NOT do what I’m supposed to be doing for my health and my weight.  First, I was in too much pain to be able to focus on [...]

well, on payday (last thursday) i was going to go to Trader Joe’s or at least to Von’s and buy some healthy snack foods, because i work in one of those foody places. we don’t make food, we just have a lot of it around. i never bring and rarely buy lunch, i just go [...]

As a fat person, who mostly hangs out with thin people, I find that they can be the most destructive part of my diet motivation, and my workout motivation.
First of all, all my friends ever want to do is go eat, or go drink, or watch a movie while eating and drinking.  Why does every [...]

yes, i’m fat. but i’m not a fat girl, not in my mind. throughout my life since approximately age 13, i’ve gained and lost at least a thousand pounds (well, i’m guessing, but probably). it doesn’t matter that i was probably closer to fat than thin most of these last 35 years, to me fat [...]