Hypnotized Into Overweight: Why I Stayed Fat for 25 Years
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Tips for Cooking Dried Beans by Charlotte Siems Any good Southern cook knows how to cook beans. I grew up on pinto beans, usually served with homemade cornbread. We occasionally ate lima beans or navy beans, but the cooking principles are the same. Beans are an inexpensive meal, and the beans can be re-purposed. …
A Thank You Note to T-Tapp by Charlotte Siems Thank you notes are proper etiquette to express appreciation to someone for a gift or kindness given. Since my 5+ years of experience with T-Tapp has been so great, I’d like to write a thank you note: Thank You, Teresa Tapp and T-Tapp! …
What You’re Supposed to Be Doing by Charlotte Siems Have you ever been in an audience when the speaker or performer is painfully self-conscious and insecure? How did it make you feel? We usually start feeling uncomfortable and nervous ourselves. We may sympathize with the person on stage, but their emotional and physical energy…
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An alarm pierces the silence of the early morning and a middle-aged woman gropes in the darkness to turn it off. She lays in bed for a few minutes, gathering strength to haul herself out of bed. [break][/break]Getting out of bed requires technique. She places one hand on the nightstand and one hand on the bed for…
A few years ago we started a new tradition at Easter time: making Resurrection Rolls. We usually make them with the younger girls after dyeing boiled eggs. Last year things got so busy we didn’t make them until several days after Easter. See? No perfection required when it comes to family traditions. Resurrection Rolls…
I am a mom of 9 children. Since the birth of the last 4,(and since I turned 30), I have steadily gained, and gained, and gained. Enough! I am on my 1st month of T Tapp. Yeah! Suggestions that have me hypnotized:
1. my mother is large, I will be too.
2. I am giving of myself and sacificing ME time for thwm.
Yes! It is so insidious how these thoughts influence our actions.
I will be taking steps in this New Year to drop the 50lbs I’ve been hanging onto for WAY TOO LONG! And I WILL succeed!
Your testimony on T-Tapp inspired me, Charlotte! Thank you!
I’m so glad that my story has inspired you, Jasmine! Best wishes as you move towards your goals in the new year!