Today I'm 25 pounds down from my heaviest weight ever ("achieved" last summer). I'm 2 pounds above the lowest I've been since 1998.

When I was pregnant with my second daughter, I had terrible nausea and reflux throughout my pregnancy. I only managed to gain 3 pounds. When I was in labor at the hospital, the anesthesiologist told me that an epidural "sure would be easier on a little skinny woman". Nice thing to say to a person who had been living off smoothies with protein powder for the past 9 months.

At my 6 week postpartum checkup in 10/01, I was 15 pounds down from my pre-pregnancy weight. That was the lowest I'd been in 3 years, and is the barrier I'm about to break now.

I'm craving carbs today. I want breakfast stuff. Muffins, banana bread, bagels with cream cheese, Krispy Kreme. Instead I am having water and apples and squash and boiled eggs and chicken. And more water. And some water on the side. With a water chaser. And water for dessert.

Uh, gotta go.