Clearly, I’ve been gone a while. I’m so sorry to anyone who was actually following my journey.

It may be April Fool’s Day, but this is no joke… I’ve lost 50 pounds, but somehow, it’s a hollow victory.

I am not hungry. But, damn! Everything looks so good!

Well, here we are on Spring Break 2022, so you know what that means! Party time? Nah. Sleep for days—Ha! I wish! Nope, for me, it means a list of stuff to do a mile long.

We’ve all said it a million times. Yes, even me…. This weight care thing is a journey. This is not a single path or a destination. It is a pathway and a process.

For those of us who are fortunate enough to have made it through recent tribulations largely unscathed, shouldn’t we make it a priority to help those who didn’t?

A lot of the work I have been doing during this process has been about changing my mindset. To that end, I think it’s high time I also change my schtick.

How can I sit here and dispense advice—even advise myself—and then not really follow it? The short answer: I’m human. Then again, aren’t we all?

Cliché? Sure. Time? Absolutely.

If I’m not seeing the progress I want to see, should I consider that a failure? A setback? Or just more motivation to keep at it?

I mean, I think there are some folks out there….

I find it odd what little things come as a surprise to me as I continue on this journey.

If I haven’t eaten since last night, why am I not hungry yet?

It’s time to make some changes, and I’ve already begun to do so…

I can’t believe I haven’t been here since August. It’s December. What the hell? Life is hard.

I haven’t been here in a while. I haven’t been able to sit and gather my thoughts because there are so many of them running rampant through my tortured brain. Where do I even begin? Buckle up, loyal readers, this might be a long one….

Usually, when I sit down to write a post, I have a general idea of what I want to talk about, the points I want to make or events I want to recount, etc. Today is not that day.

Over the past week or so, I’ve come to a stunning realization.

I haven’t been here in a while. What can I say? Life got in the way, as it does.

There are a lot of little things you don’t notice… and that’s a good thing.