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a quick update for those of you following the continuing saga. I have been on Zoloft for anxiety for 1 week and I have lost exactly 5 pounds. I tried having 2 beers with a meal Friday night and suffered no ill effects. Saturday night I had 1 glass of wine with a meal. while 5 lbs in one week may not be typical it is still encouraging. I have made very few changes other than never having seconds at dinner time and measuring my snack of the week-pretzels with hummus. I continue to exercise as much as I always did. on a personal level I went to Saloon Friday night for the premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race season 9 but went home early. Saturday I went to see the movie Beauty and the Beast with friends. Sunday I watched the movie Edge of Seventeen on blu ray at home. I finished the series (or I should say caught up on) Transparent which is remarkable. Not since Six Feet Under have I felt this way about an ensemble cast playing members of a family full of misfits. So...

I guess this space has been dormant since 2011 but even if it's just for today i am reviving it. in part this blog will be a record of my adventures, successes, failures, and the bits that I feel are worth preserving in order to remember them. This week I have begun another serious dedicated attempt to find my way to a thinner more healthy me. I thought about it, I read about some medications and I know there is more than one clinic dedicated to medical weight loss. I will be 39 this year and hope I have more than half of my life out ahead of me. my goal is to spend more of my life at a healthy weight than i did at an unhealthy one. I look forward to buying clothes in any store I choose, having zero anxiety when taking off my shirt or buckling my seatbelt on an airplane, and maybe I will no longer have to worry about dying in my sleep from sleep apnea. It is important for me to say again if you are reading this you probably know me: I don't want your sympathy but I do want ...