New Year, New Diet

Yeah, I know, it’s so typical…  the calendar changes to the new year and everyone goes on a diet.  Everyone jumps on that bandwagon.  But, boy, I tell you…  this year, my diet has been really effective.  I lost 10 lbs in four days.
How’s that for sick?

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Like an Unwanted Guest who Never Leaves the Party

I keep telling myself the pain is going away, but it’s not. It’s much much less than what it was — I am no longer rolling on the floor in agony — but it still comes every day, and it is like a repeatedly stabbing needle: still quite painful. When it comes, it [...]

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She Sees, She Says

My mother says she thinks I’ve lost weight. I don’t know if I have.
Sometimes my mother asks if I’ve gained weight. I’m usually well enough aware already.
I know she’s only trying to compliment me, or lovingly commiserate.
I wish… she wouldn’t mention it at all.

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She Dribbles When She Giggles

I was overcome by a momentary urge to get back in shape and decided to do some crunches with the baby on board, as I vaguely recalled seeing in some magazine or another.
I now realise you’re supposed to do them like this:

But I did them with her lying flat on my chest.
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It’s really hard [...]

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