(Profile Pic taken 10/2009)

SHORT HISTORY OF THE YO-YO:

Fat.
Less fat.
Kind of skinny.
Fat.
Less fat.
Kind of Skinny.
Pregnant.
Fattest EVER.
Fat.

I'll be 40 next birthday. I'd like to be described just once in my life as "that skinny chick standing by the all-you-can-eat-buffet who really should eat some food, the bitch." But I'll also settle for being healthy, i.e., at a manageable weight, exercising regularly, with an awesome mind-set, and the ability to manage stress without inducing insomniatic pitfalls.

Married, I live in N. California, the hapa-haole mama of a babykins born in 2007. I opened an insurance business in 2008 and (fat)secretly dream of being a Pulitzer author, living in a house that hugs an oceanside cliff where my library extends 2 floors, has a brass-trimmed ladder and looks just like Professor Higgins' library in "My Fair Lady." I am a former chef with a steely wit that has got a bit dulled peddling insurance. My English Lit degree has been useless other than to give me an attention span to finish a book with more than 1000 pages and an insatiable desire to quote Shakespeare at the most inappropriate times. I love a good joke, appreciate ribald humor, and am known to spout off in a propah English accent when one least expects it. I am a sucker for helping people in need and you'd think in nearly 40 years I would have learned to say "NO" with a bit more authority. I need to take lessons from my daughter; she says NO all the time.

GOALS:
12/30/09 (239.8) - Under 240
- Lose 5 more lbs (236.8) by my Bday 1/26/2010
- Down 5% (= 12 lbs = 234)
- Down 10% (= 24 lbs = 222)
- Halfway to goal (= 46 lbs = 200)
- Under 200
- Down 25% (= 62 lbs = 184)
- Three-quarters to goal (= 68 lbs = 177)
- Down 30% (= 74 lbs = 172)
- 10 lbs to go! (= 81 lbs = 165)
- GOAL! (= 91 lbs = 155)