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They said it would happen. I’d hoped it would happen when I was alone, not when I was with Caroline. They told me I would be grumpy, and today I have been, big-time, and Caroline had to put up with it all. It’s hard trying to live a restrictive-diet life in a nonrestricted world. Food […]

Life sometimes gets busy, and it may be hard to remember to check the blog for updates. Now you can subscribe to these entries in your email. Just fill out the very short form on the main page, confirm your subscription, and, if I’ve configured things correctly, wait for new entries to show up in […]

I started working in our living room this morning. Caroline, my wife, left the apartment to take out some garbage. She was wearing my hearing-assistance microphone, and when she left, I heard her whimper. When she came back, she said that someone in the next apartment was making bacon or sausage. Then, about thirty seconds […]

If I’ve given you the impression that it’s been all fun, games, and excitement since this journey started, that’s a wrong impression: it’s not. As I write this, I have a very heavy heart – the mountain seems so high, the goal so unreachable, the required time infinite. I don’t see any light at the […]

Well, the first weekend of the rest of my life is over. It has been a weekend of learning and of discovery. I have discovered that if you put a little effort into it, you can make veggies interesting. Corn with a little bit of butter and a little bit of salt actually, gulp, has […]

And so we started things going today. My appointment with Lisa was scheduled for 2:00 in the afternoon, and I had asked Caroline to please join me. We are in the midst of a huge October snowstorm, very unusual for this time of year, so Lisa and I determined that the best way to go […]

Thank you for looking at my blog. In case you’ve somehow stumbled on this accidentally, my name is Bruce Toews. I thought I’d make my first post to the blog an introduction, explaining what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I am very obese. I have been all my life. The matter was really […]