So a few weeks ago, the editor (my boss) is doling out stories to all the reporters for an up and coming special section of the newspaper, Healthy Living. We are all tossing around story ideas and figuring out who is going to write what. Someone says, “Well what’s the new hot Hollywood diet? Maybe we could do something on that.” As an overweighter, this irked me b/c I know that those diets don’t work – they’re just garbage preying on the desperation of the overweighters. So I say something about doing a story on slow and steady weight loss, lifestyle changes – something that does work – next thing I know the editor says, “Oh yeah, that’s a good idea. Why don’t you write about what you’ve been doing.”
UMMMM ok, not what I had in mind, but I love to write and sure, ok, why not???? So I wrote the story. It got tweaked and the edges smoothed a little and viola it was published yesterday. At the end of the story, I invited readers to follow my journey to its eventual successful ending on my other blog, http://theskinnygirlwantsout.wordpress.com.
What I guess didn’t really penetrate through to my brain was that people were going to do just that and that I would have to be accountable to what I had written. WOW! ok. 
So I got an email from a reader saying she was going to follow my story and that what I had written had really touched her because it was so similar to her own struggle. She said I was an inspiration to her – that’s a little overwhelming to me. I don’t feel like an inspiration but maybe by the end of all of this I will.
So I will continue to write about my ups and downs and would love feedback, advice, ideas or encouragement from my readers. I will continue to post photos for a visual accounting of this journey. I added some this weekend. A couple of more from my skinnier days and one from April 07, when I was going to the gym and following the “Eating for your blood type” eating plan. I had gotten down to 209.
