A Lame Introduction

It is the last day of 2007 and my resolutions this year all rotate around my weight AGAIN. But this year I've decided to do something different. Weight therapy with a twist: Weight with a Blog. This way I can rant and rave about all my weight woes and not worry (or care) whose ears (or eyes) it falls upon.


I can't believe how fast this year has passed. It only feels like yesterday that I made the resolution to stick to a diet and I promised myself that come this New Year's Eve I'd be as thin as can be.


I have failed miserably. My body weight has shifted (upwards) and at this year's Christmas dinner my friend's beautiful girl called me The Fat Mommy. I wanted to choke the living daylights out of her. I nearly did. But of course I didn't, because that is what we fat people do, we take shit like this with a smile, we harbour our emotions inside and sadly we never move on.

So, I've decided to embark on a journey (an experiment even) of the blog. Why the name? Because I am a traveller. My husband has a job that takes us (I've got one son) around the world. I have found that no matter what country we happen to be in, I tend to carry my excess baggage with me: my weight. I talk about it all the time and in every language I learn. I am obsessed.

I love food and I love entertaining. This year I resolve to make peace with that and hopefully then I can see the weight start to shift. All I have to do is change my relationship with glorious food out there. I love my husband but you don't see me stuffing photos of him in my coat pockets.

With red wine in hand I toast in the New Year. Cheers and here goes nothing.