Category: Struggles

• Know Where To Stick Your Comments

  **This is another article that I wrote during a previous weight loss attempt. It is funny how little editing I needed to do in order to make it apply perfectly to this week, nearly three years later. –MDG Has anyone else had it up to here (gesturing just above my head) with people telling you…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 16, 2023

  Advice, Attitude, Challenges, Choices, Discretion, Encouragement, Friends, frustration, Moods, Motivation, Obesity, Perspective, Psychology, Rage, Rant, Struggles, Weight Management

• And What a Walk!

  Speaking with Leslie today (and over the last little while) I have started to fully understand that I need exercise for a few reasons. It crucial for my weight loss strategy, there is no question that exercise is a critical component to losing weight and getting back into shape. That is an obvious and direct…

  Mitch Garvis

  July 18, 2022

  Addiction, Anxiety, Exercise, Moods, Plans, Stress, Struggles, Taekwondo, Walking

• Kindly Shut Up!

  I mentioned earlier that I was at a friend’s birthday party over the weekend, and it was a lovely day… that was marred by my friend trying to get me to eat something that I should not eat. In this particular case, he was telling me how good the blood sausage was. I told him…

  Mitch Garvis

  June 6, 2022

  Cheating, Choices, Diet, Food, Friends, Struggles, Support, Willpower

• Day 104

  Microsoft technology is annoying me again today. I am not spending the same time trying to figure it out as I did a couple of weeks ago, I just shifted to another computer. Argh. You would think that a set of technologies that I know so well would not be quite so frustrating. I went…

  Mitch Garvis

  May 3, 2022

  Meal Replacements, Plans, Struggles, Trauma, Travel