short pants romance

Here is one of my favorite songs, and quite seasonally appropriate:



My absence yesterday was due to the internet being broken in our house and also busy-ness in my real life. I'm not falling off the wagon with the posting every day, even though not actually posting every day would probably qualify as "falling off the wagon."

Ok, so the "no fried foods" resolution is sort of working out, although I've been a bit liberal with the definition of "fried." I sort of intended it to mean mainly french fries, because I tend to eat them with every meal. Instead I've let other things slip through, like bacon and potato chips, which are also fried. The bottom line is that this resolution does not seem to be helping me lose weight. So it's time to go to the mattresses. I need to just hunker down and start my chicken/rice/vegetable diet, which is usually pretty successful, albeit incredibly boring. But something's gotta give here, I tried on some clothes at Target last week and wanted to cry in the dressing room. So maybe the way to push myself is to list my current weight in each post, which will perhaps humiliate me into losing weight.

Here goes:

Day 1: 130 pounds