Today's the day

I'm starting my pre-wedding weight-loss effort (refuse to use the d-word). Lukas and Denise have set the date for 10.2.10.

The proposal on Christmas night

Aren't they a cute couple!

 OK, back to the subject at hand:

I just ate the last vestige of leftover holiday food--some stale chex mix. Excuse me while I go scrounge up a little chocolate to get the stale peanut taste out of my mouth.

I'm back. Found 8 Hershey's Kisses--also a little on the stale side--but chocolate is chocolate. Ate 2 3 4, saved the other 6 5 4 for an emergency.

So, here is my first diet tip that will demonstrate how seriously I am, indeed, taking this:

Half Sticks of Butter

Baby steps, my friends, baby steps....