After losing 105 pounds in Phase One (370 to 265), I knew I’d let myself relax a bit in late August. A week turned into five as the school year began, but I have successfully pulled the plane out of the dive. I’m now at 314.4, but I know a lot of that is the water weight after my poor eating and reduced workouts. Even with the poor eating I only missed 2 days of workouts in those five weeks, but they were sad little things. Phase Two will get me down to 232 pounds by January 31, 2010. In the meantime, I will:

Run my first “official” 5k in 14 years (I did manage one full practice run before my dad died in 2007 and I had to cancel the actual race).

Introduce juicing to my daily routine (I know, I know—exciting, right?)

Get down to a size 38 pants and XL shirts (well, maybe 2XL—we’ll see)

Bring sexy back.