My postcards to you. <3
This is a story about a video with a simple message gone viral and touching the lives of scores of people in the process. Viewed by over five million people in social media, the heart-felt message in A Postcard from Yellowstone has shaped the culture and success rate of the Eat Like a Bear community….
A big part of my weight loss story is my “why” — I injured my knee, was limping around my house in the Giant Sequoia National Monument, and wanted desperately to get out and hike with my sons. I could see giant sequoia trees right out of window, like a living “vision board” reminding me…
“Fat Mama Creek” is the seasonal creek on our property, in highly inaccessible terrain. The name is an unofficial one, not logged on any legal maps. Way back about eight years ago, as my sons and I explored it together, we realized that the creek was too small to have an official name. We named…
The quad-state tornado dominated the news as our own forest roads opened to the area of the Giant Sequoia National Monument that was devastated by the Windy Fire. Visions of storm-ravaged communities hung in my vision as my older son and I drove with some loathing and heaviness through our hiking stomping grounds in the…
My obesity is officially in remission and I use the word “remission” with intent. How many people toss around the word “cure” and use it as part of their mindset? Are we ever really “cured” of anything? I will never give myself the luxury of thinking I’ve won. Nothing major or important likely has a…
From September 2018: It was only a mile and a mile back but two years ago at 280 pounds, I couldn’t even make it halfway — the easy half. Frederick was well ahead of us, going far past that view point even. Hikers on the trail assured him that his family was OK: “We saw…
“How long will it take?” (To lose 100 pounds or a half of yourself or whatever the goal.) It’s an interesting question because I expect we all ask it as we start out. I have videos describing what I lost, when, etc., and I would ask all of those same questions were I to be…
I pretty much never celebrate birthdays and for my 50th I was laid up for the winter due to a surgery complication. I celebrated with this video that I posted on my Facebook personal profile. It has 350,000 views! I said simply: I’m “Half My Size” and “Half a Century”!!! HAPPY FLIPPIN’ HALF A CENTURY!!!!…
I write this post in memory of a friend who was positioned to make a huge impact on the obesity rates here in central California, given his job, his charisma, and his background. He was one of the “Bears” in my IRL friends and family network, applying the tools that I used to lose 140…
“She believed she could and so she did.” I am going to be straight-up about this motivational saying: I’d love to say that I lost 140lbs because of this attitude. Yes, I believed in myself and I handled it: I just grabbed life right by the knackers, by the giggle berry brass clankers, and just…