It looks like I was trying really hard to make this a horrible-looking “before” shot, but I simply couldn’t breathe because of how tight that Captain America shirt was on me.
(This is the section of my blog where I’ll chronicle my weight-loss experiences. Or at least I plan to until I fall off the dieting bandwagon (again). But I don’t intend to do that (again). Won’t happen! Hopefully. My plan of attack? Eat well, exercise, write about my inspiring journey from fatness to fitness and live healthily ever after. And this time I mean it.)
As proof that my will power is amped up right now despite the fact that I have 100 or so pounds to lose, just know that in the hours before writing this column late Tuesday night, I ate two dill pickles, bought a bag of Fuji apples, did 102 calories worth of treadmill time and lifted weights (once I figured out how to correctly operate the bench-press machine at my gym).