The Fat Lady Sang

OKAY… The strike is over. Back to the musthavediet and time is running out. The reunion is only two months away… plus a week or two that I need for padding. The writer’s strike didn’t actually help me lose weight. In fact, in the last couple weeks I think I put my original four lost pounds back on. I refuse to weigh myself and find out… Too depressing.

The problem is not the diet. I still believe in the “must have” concept. ( see sidebar) The problem is that I’m not actually doing the easiest diet in the world… I’ve just been too busy. I also think when you’re not writing everything down it all goes to the wayside. I think writing is as important as positive attitude and food intake and vitamins and water.

I also should cut out the diet cokes… There was an article on that on Yahoo yesterday to that effect…. That the drinks promote weight gain… I refused to read it… It would depress me. I was good in the beginning about keeping it to one a day. Lately I’ve slipped back to two.. pretty much hand in hand with skipping the water, the vitamins and the twenty minute walk. Oops. Yeah, I’ve been pretty much living on excessive sugar, fat and pasta.


Today in the midst of a thousand more important conversations, my friend Jane, said, “By the way, I have a diet tip for you. Skip meals.” Taking out food altogether, I’m pretty sure would do the trick. I’m actually contemplating Slim Fast. No decisions, no balancing, just eat a bar, drink a shake and wait for dinner. I swore I wouldn’t, but damn the reunion is getting near.

Starting tomorrow I’ll give it three more weeks. Writing it, taking the vitamins, visualizing, and being grateful. Three weeks… Starting today.