I am Slim-Fasting for breakfast, trying to avoid too much bread and snacking.
I've been spending a lot of time reading blogs and watching YouTube videos of people documenting their experiences and weight loss with the band. It's interesting - I am by nature a pessimist. But I have never felt more hopeful about the possibilities ahead than I do now. I am SO READY for this, so ready to feel better and have more energy and look better and shop in regular stores and not feel awkward and self-conscious all the time.
New Year's Day marks the start of a new decade. My life on the cusp of 2000 was wildly different than it is now -- I was a single journalist living in New York City and had just started dating the guy who would be my husband. I was almost 100 pounds thinner, running regularly. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks hadn't happened yet. It was a different world.
Most of this decade has been devoted to building our family. My husband and I married in 2001 and had our first son 10 months later. Talk about the shock of a lifetime! Motherhood wasn't a smooth or easy transition for me, but now I am in it whole hog. And there's nowhere else I'd rather be.
We have three children now, all blessedly healthy. I am ready to nurture myself so that I can continue to nurture them.
