Posts from the ‘Reports from the Front’ Category
I just came home from CES in Las Vegas, and the fact that I survived now means that I can really knuckle down on my diet. Las Vegas may be the food capital (since every major chef seems to have a restaurant there), but I can tell you that I saw NONE of that. Instead, [...]
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So here’s my resolution. I am going to resume regular posting. I’m going to post more recipes that comply with Weight Watchers. And I’m even going to go back to Weight Watchers (I think I can stomach it).
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What would happen if everyone lost weight and were thin and beautiful? What if we all looked just the way we wanted to? Like Catherine Deneuve, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron or Audrey Hepburn? Or Cary Grant, Brad Pitt or George Clooney? Or would it be better, frankly, to be ourselves and look more like Rosie [...]
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What if I don’t like having pendulous breasts, thunder thighs and flap-in-the-wind triceps? Should I just love myself and say to hell with it?
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It’s been a while since I last posted. My father died. If there’s one thing I think I’ve learned from him, both in life and in death, is to value your health and treat it with respect. My father had lung cancer before I was born in 1961. He lost half a lung and was [...]
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I’m feeling stronger today, and I can’t say why. I can imagine myself at 160 pounds, and today the goal seems manageable. I’d like to be free of this extra 45 pounds I’ve been carrying around for the last 15 years. This morning I felt a hip underneath the flab. It was encouraging. I can [...]
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I’m back, not from Paris, but from Reno. My father has been gravely ill and I’ve been spending oodles of time up there. As a consequence I’ve cancelled Paris. I feel selfish for saying this, and I suppose it is selfish in practice, but I find Reno a hard place to be. From a health [...]
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The worst part about losing weight is that it takes forever. Now mind you, I didn’t put on this extra tonnange overnight, but the fact that it’s sticking with me so closely is mighty annoying. I understand that it will be a lifestyle change, continued effort and blah blah blah, but frankly, it’s just a [...]
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So I’m back on the Weight Watchers program, counting points and actually losing weight. I’m so fat now that I fortunately get 26 points a day, which I can of couse supplement with the handy Flex points the program offers to weak-willed folks like me who are still hungry. A week ago today, I weighed [...]
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I give up. I’m going to Weight Watchers. In person, live and dreadful. I’m going to listen to the leader cheer me on, absorb all the advice to eat sugar-free Jello and fat-free salad dressing. And maybe, just maybe, I’ll be able to shed my 50 pounds of spare lard over the course of the [...]
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