Weight Loss While Blogging

So, yet again, my resolution is to lose the extra person in the form of astoundingly excess poundage I have carried with me for the last three years. How sad is it to realize that I weigh as much as I did when I was pregnant with the the kidlets--at 9-months pregnant. Ack! I could make excuses of back injuries with physical therapy that only stopped when the medical insurance ran out, but hey, that doesn't explain the magnets down my gullet that attract every Starfuck's Pumpkin Scone (with as much trans-fat as a large McDonald's Fries according to NPR this morning), every double cheeseburger eaten with abandon, every extra tablespoon of butter added to dinner cooked because everything tasted better with butter. Gah!

So my new resolution will not include too many calorie counting exercises because that is all always futile for me. I love to eat too much! Instead, I have chosen public purview. Now, I am not as hard core as some and will not blog every calorie or even my current weight. I couldn't stand the humiliation. Instead, I choose subtly in the form of a "current condition" box in the right corner under my profile which will only track cumulative pounds lost (or God forbid, lbs. gained) from a ground zero of January 2nd, 2007.

Yep, I started yesterday and have already lost a whopping 2 ounces. Whoo-hooo, I lost 2 ounces after eating my weight at a luscious, spicy, all-you-can eat lunch at Kanishka (Indian buffet in Redmond), left over broccoli beef and rice with fried sweet and sour pork for dinner, all followed with copious coffee with fat-free half-and-half and sweetened with equal(see doing good), and with a final sweet note of a slab of my husband's famous homemade New York cheesecake. Yep, my self-control is awesome...

So, I am regrouping today and have a new strategy. I track a lot of my weight gain to getting serious about our kids' competitive swimming (hours of commuting and sitting at practices 6 days a week) and my evil lap top. Can't do much about the commute. Can't do much about practice except try to walk during, if possible. But, my excessive computing, that I can adapt.

Henceforth, starting actually with this blog, I will gift my laptop with my presence only when walking my butt off at my treadmill. Yes, friends, fiends, and countrymen, I walk while typing with my laptop precariously slanted at our treadmill, typing away with wrist contorted at ungodly positions. Yeek, I can feel the carpal tunnel setting in! No pain, no gain, me thinks. We will see...

Final Note: The above picture is not me, but my goal weight. I think I last weighed that my senior year of college, when I was still vegetarian, and after a 6-week Army ROTC camp. It should take approximately 8-10 months, if I am good.

Blog Stat: I walked 45 minutes for 199 calories (62 from fat) for 1.4 miles with a whopping pulse rate of 86. Almost enough to burn off one bite of last night's cheesecake. Ah, progress...

'lisciously scribed by Scout's Honor @ 9:09 AM