Congratulations are in order. Because I have accomplished the impossible. I now weigh what I weighed when I returned home from the hospital after giving birth to twins ten years ago. Yes, it's true. What it took nine months and two actual human being growing inside of my body to accomplish, I've Continue Reading
My Big Fat Summer
The day before yesterday I left my parents’ country house and drove into the city where the first thing I did, as usual, was weigh myself. Way to ruin my day. At least it’s blog fodder, I thought. I can write about how everyone always talks about how easy it is to lose weight in the summer – but Continue Reading
Stomach Flu: Where are you when I need You?
Yes, it's true - I've been gone a while. Why? Oh -- I don't know. Maybe it's the VIRULENT stomach flu coursing through my entire family. Even the dog threw up. Seriously. First it was my son. On vacation. In Florida. Perfect weather. Beautiful Gulf of Mexico waters. We stayed inside for Continue Reading
The Post I Would Have Written If I Had the Time
I don't really have time to post today: Sick dog (for a change) Stinky Dog (just bathed him. fun fun fun) Daughter needs socks brought to her at school on the other side of town. (don't ask) Dryer broken Going back to Yoga (finally...I hope) No food in house. (though I did get Fresh Direct Continue Reading
Who’s Afraid of the Water Park? Me, that’s who.
I have trekked through the rain forests of Costa Rica. I have biked 18 miles up-hill to the top of Mount Constitution in Washington State. I have traveled through Turkey - by myself - with blond hair. But the ideaof going to Splish Splash Water Park terrifies me. It's not the possibility of Continue Reading
Ageless Body? Yeah, right.
Long ago, I discovered the secret to buying (passably) flattering bathing suits: the worse you look the more you pay. (Hence, the Karla Coletto bazillion dollar(and worth every penny) bathing suit.) I then learned the secret to feeling young and attractive: hang out with the septaugenarians. I've Continue Reading
NYC Moms Blog Post: My Daughter Thinks She’s Fat and It’s all my Fault
Swimsuit season is upon us. And with it the onslaught of diet ads on tv, magazines with pics of celebs caught having actual cellulite, and me, bemoaning my post-partum, post-forty, past passing for anything but middle-aged body. Though I am, if I am completely, intellectually honest, neither truly Continue Reading
Youngening: It’s true! We’re all getting younger!
Forty is the new thirty. Fifty is the new forty. Twenty one is the new eighteen. In fact, my hormones are skyrocketing to adolescent levels even as I type. It's the new math. And Lord knows, I've never been much good at math. Funny. I'm not much good at getting younger as I age, either. This Continue Reading
Weight Watchers Weigh In Update #2
OK, OK, so I've been on the diet for four weeks and this is only the second time I've updated. I'll give you the scoop: Week One: Followed the points TO THE LETTER (number?) No cheats. No counting the exercise points. Down 1.4 Week Two: Same as week one. Only used a few of my discretionary Continue Reading
Weight Watchers Weigh In Update #1
Weight Watchers. The two most terrifying words in the English language. (Though I suppose that "Compassionate Conservative" and "Hairy Back" might be contenders.) And yet here I am, once again, doing the WW. Counting the points, weighing the portions,trying to decide if a deck of cards (the proper Continue Reading