So, I haven’t been here for awhile, quite possibly because there is peanut butter here and I have regained most of the weight I lost. Having faceplanted myself in deep shame, I hid inside during cold weather and under bulky jackets when I went out. However, IT’S GETTING WARMER and I’m not moving to the North Pole, so there seems to be nothing for it but the dreaded dieting and exercising. Oh, my.

Of course, determinations that are made quietly in the privacy of one’s home can be broken so easily. Making a public announcement of your intention usually just leads to thinking of excuses to back away from your goal. “Oh, yeah, I’ve been so stressed about _______ that I just had to eat.” (Whatever nonsense you think you can pass off.)

In dire straits, I went to a place I had abandoned: FaceBook.

April 22, 2019

What’s on my mind? What’s on my mind? That is not a relevant question at this time. What’s on my body? would qualify; but no one has to ask that. You can see it – A LOT OF EXTRA WEIGHT.
Now, I know public announcements of diets and New Year’s Resolutions are usually self-jinxing, but listen, folks, I am desperate.
So everyday, I am going to indicate something about my weight – actual numbers, without the numbers. We’ll just say if you knew what X equaled, you could calculate things in “Jody’s” – such as in fractions or multiples of Jody’s.
I am doing it this way because I have just the tiniest bit of pride left under all this flabby embarrassment.
I will post everyday, even if it is an “X + ” number.
Since I am being a jerk and not posting 12345 type of numbers or an actual picture, I will give you a mental image: Think Mrs. Butterworth in a swimsuit . . .
SO I GUESS THIS IS BodyBook.
And at Day 1 we are at X

April 23

OK, I have not finked out on Day 2 of the weight loss endeavor. I am thinking about the best way to actually set the start point. I weighed yesterday in the afternoon and today in the morning. I don’t think it is fair to compare the two and give myself a four pound loss, so I will start with today’s morning weight, which is the New X (nothing at all like the new black)

April 24
We’re still at X.

April 25
X-1. A start, sort of like the journey of a thousand miles starts with a step. Oh, rats, that was not really inspirational.

April 26
We have X-2. It will be a long and possibly frustrating job, losing this weight. So, I suppose I need not focus on the end, but try to invent ways to mentally enjoy the process.
Remember gold stars in elementary school? I’m thinking of putting a poster on the refrigerator for gold stars and then putting labels on some foods that ask the question: DO YOU REALLY WANT TO FORFEIT YOUR GOLD STAR BY EATING THIS?

April 27
I wouldn’t want you to think I’ve forgotten, so it is now X-2.4. I imagine it will be somewhere around this figure for a couple of weeks. The main thing is I will keep track daily; I will not forget as I look at eats that are too decadent to be considered food that the next morning I will be standing on a scale.
On the other side of the coin of not doing something, in this case eating unnecessarily, I have started doing more physically. There is a scale for that as well – it is called aching the next day.
I feel not unlike the Panama Canal guy(Goethals, I think), who when told of another collapse in the Culebra Cut, said, “Hell, dig it out again.” I just wish I had more of TR’s determination and energy.

April 28 (Today – well, wait for it.)