i’ve been trying to watch what i eat, etc. in what i anticipated would be a futile attempt to lose weight …

not the baby weight, mind you. that came off within six weeks of poppin’ out the kid …

this is the weight i put on in los angeles, just before moving to poughkeepsie … 20 lbs of it, to be exact … it’s been coming off, slowly … largely because i have (begrudgingly) stopped cooking with things like entire sticks of butter, cartons of heavy cream, and oh-so-glorious bacon grease … all of which make for fantastic eats …

well, i got on the scale today and … drumroll, please …

i can kiss ten!!! … (10!!!) … T-E-N!!! … pounds goodbye!

only 10 more to go … and i will be back to my textbook/ideal/whatever weight … woo-hoo!!!