I think this post has been a long time coming. I know it’s been rattling around in my head in the shape of a blog post for a couple of weeks now, and before then… Well, it’s been my life for as long as I can remember.

For years, I have tried to lose weight. I suck at it. As a teenager, I was pretty overweight, and then somehow in my early twenties I managed to lose about 60 pounds or so. In the last five years, I’ve gained most of that 60 pounds back gradually, and I’m not happy about it.

So I guess I sort of started an experiment. Well, I’m not sure if that’s really what it is. I guess it is in that I’ve never done this before, not fully, so I don’t know exactly how it will play out. That’s the experiment part. Except there’s more. I bet you’re wondering what the heck I’m talking about by now.