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Mark McGwire and Me

You’re up 1.2 pounds.
I wanted to choke the woman behind the table. This was not possible, I thought, not possible because I’d stuck to the plan, even when I’d been drinking, even when I ate a quarter of my points in popcorn one night at 11 pm. I’d avoided margaritas and steered clear of the [...]

Week Two

I lost 5.2 pounds at my first weigh in. That’s a lot of weight to lose, you’re thinking, and it is. I will confess that I never take my shoes off at my first meeting, so the total is somewhere in the 4.5 pound range. I’ll take it. It pales in comparison to the 17 [...]

Weighing Matters

I restarted Weight Watchers last week. I’d reached a tipping point, thankfully not one involving my chair, and it was time. It wasn’t the fact that none of my clothes fit that pushed me over the edge, but instead social avoidance beyond even my norm that did it. A friend I hadn’t seen in five [...]

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