This week I'm in Detroit, Michigan to attend my step-son's wedding.
It is snowing here.  
Travel is fine, but I love being home in central California
...especially in the winter...
and I'm looking forward to returning there soon. 

It is important to be able to take care of oneself,
but there is a big difference between standing up for yourself
and expressing negative emotions.

Confrontation often isn't necessary.  
Simply examine your thoughts, and practice being present in the moment.

Quiet the anger or sadness with deep breathing.  
Step back from the situation that is troubling you.  
Realize that emotional eating will only add to your problems later on.  

Write out your thoughts and feelings in explosive detail
… but this is for your personal expression…
don't share what you've written with others.

It is critical to learn positive ways to deal with pain, sadness,
depression, and even the spaces that mean comfort or joy.  

We need to feel our emotions instead of suppress them.  
Take each new day and work from the inside,
and focus on the good that is inside each of us.

Meditation and prayer can both be very useful
for calming oneself down, and finding one's center.  

Use positive words about weight-loss and maintenance.
A positive vocabulary will help us make better food choices,
and in time, will help us achieve our goals.

Go for a walk or engage in another positive activity,
like listening to the Words of Wisdom Playlist
located in the RESOURCES section here at DietHobby.

Feelings come and go…both good and bad.
They will always be a part of us.
Purposely place your focus on Positive Thoughts,
and you will feel good a great deal more of the time.

Today I posted a news article about the progress
at DietHobby's companion site at YouTube. 
I've been spending a great deal of time working on that channel,
and as a result, haven't posted much here this week.

I am now shooting 4 videos every week and posting them there.
You can find every one of those videos here at DietHobby
under RESOURCES, Videos, or you can click the link in the recent news article
and go directly to my YouTube DietHobby channel. 

My current video release schedule is:

Ask Grandma:  Fridays
Recipe:  Sundays
Words of Wisdom:  Tuesday and Wednesday

Somewhere around those days, I also share the videos here at this website.

Learning how to prepare for, shoot, edit, and upload those videos
has been challenging, and even after learning how,
there is a great deal of work involved in the process. 

Also, it has been necessary for me to spend a great deal of time
reading and responding to the comments of the YouTube viewers. 
Because of this additional activity, I've had to be less active here at DietHobby.com.

There isn't enough time for me to write an insightful article here every day,
and do all of the other things I need to do,
so my current plan is to keep this website active by continuing to post here frequently,
to share the videos I make here, along with some personal comments,
and to work toward posting a thoughtful article at least once a week. 

FYI, I read all of the comments anyone makes here, 
on all of the articles, no matter when they were posted,
and I also respond to them as soon as possible.

This month I've been suffering from overload.

Not overloaded with too much food, because I've been working hard to avoid that, but rather emotionally overloaded.

Partly this is due to the disruption of my normal routine by my household plumbing emergency and repairs, but a great deal of it is the busy schedule I've been keeping making videos, and answering viewers questions on YouTube.

This YouTube Grandma thing is taking a giant chunk of my time... like almost ALL of it.

The companion DietHobby channel on YouTube now has more than 2000 subscribers. So, I think and write more than ever before, but for right now, most of it is happening on my DietHobby YouTube channel where I'm answering my YouTube Grandbaby's questions about Life-in-general rather than writing about dieting issues here on my website. 

My husband is a Vietnam veteran, and one of the things about that culture that impressed him, was the saying and the attitude..."Buddha Take"... House gone, family gone,... Vietnamese people would just shake their heads open their hands and say "Buddha Take".

That has become a saying in our household when something changes or disappears. "Buddha Take."

I'm striving to achieve a balance, and I believe this will happen,
but it may take awhile.
So, if you come here and wonder what is happening,
where are all the insightful articles about dieting issues, ......... 
"Buddha Take"

Today, I uploaded a video about Selfishness.
I find the saying interesting and thought provoking.

Is it true for all?  I don't know,
Perhaps it is something that is true only some of the time?
Depending on how that truth is applied?