Wednesday, October 29, 2008  WFMW: Shrinking  Regular readers of
ye ol' blog will know that I've been hinting around about
something called SparkPeople for the past couple of days... I
wanted to save the full description for my WFMW post, so that I
can share this tool (which is, essentially, what it is) with as
many people as possible.  First, a little background... I
started gaining weight with puberty, but unlike most of my
peers, I didn't gain the height to balance it out (I'm 5'4").
And I love to cook, and I love food. And I really, really hate
to exercise. Fast forward to 32 years of age, and I find myself
with a lot of weight to lose. A lot. Like 85 pounds.  That would
be IMPOSSIBLE for me to admit on the internet, for all the world
to see, if it weren't for SparkPeople.  But I'm getting ahead of
myself.  Over the years I've tried joining a gym (expensive, and
absolutely no change in my body whatsoever), dieting (usually
long enough to go to the store, buy all the diet food, see the
Oreos, decide to "tr