Cheers!

Wow, it's been a while! I bet you all are wondering what happened to me...Not much actually. I lost my job and I've had to scramble to find a new one and make enough money on e-bay selling some crap I had in storage to make rent. I've been very tired at night and haven't had time to drop any notes here but I hope for that to change.

I have not been cooking much but I have been working out when I can and the result is here to see...

CHEERS!

20 pounds gone! Or at least what I'm going to call 20 pounds. I've come to the decision that I can't really be sure how heavy I was when I started this mess because I was not weighing in regularly and on the same scale so...I've decided to call 190 the point at which I get to drink again. I hit the magic number last week and on Saturday night I toasted my success with some friends at La Hacienda on Park Street. And later that night at Maduro's on King Street. I decided to go ahead and drink for a variety of reasons and now I'm glad I did.

There is a country song that with some minor adjustments could have represented me these last few months, at least if you ask my friends: “You ain't much fun since I quit drinking”. The difference of course being that I sobered up and I stopped being fun. Apparently “There is a kingdom called Passive Aggressiva, and I am their Queen”~Addison from Grey's Anatomy. Everyone seems to think I am more forgiving of faults when I know that there will be a drink available at the end of the day. Granted I didn't drink every day before I gave it up for the diet but hey...These have been some rough months and I have been without any vises all year. (Last year I broke-up with my boyfriend so that go rid of the sex, I don't smoke or do recreational drugs, and then I quit drinking) So I was starting to take up the vise of being mean to everyone and everything I guess. Well, no more!

I have lost weight to reach the first milestone and now I can have the booze back, but not the Ramen. That is gone for good. There is nothing that the Ramen can give me that I can not get from a better source! (Although it is pretty much the perfect hang-over preventative or palliative)

I do realize that sobriety has played a role in my weight loss and I will not discount that role just because the alcohol is back in my life. I could not have lost this weight with the ease and speed that I did if I had been drinking hard the way I had last year. Because of this I have decided that drinking is to remain a special treat and not to return to my former drunken ways – at least not for another 20 pounds.

The booze is back but only at restaurants on special occasions and at parties in my home or the home of others. Hopefully I will cease my sour ways now and everyone can breather a little easier, especially me... I have a lot let weight on my chest!

So toast to me. “To 20 pounds! And 60 more around the corner!”