Last week, I decided enough was enough – it was time to lose all the weight I had piled on over the past eighteen months. So I did what any girl embarking on an horrendous weight loss mission would do … I enlisted the help and support of my girlfriends (the only friends I’ve made here, mind you) and we decided to put ourselves on the unbelievably strict South Beach Diet.

You know the world really hates you when you decide to make healthier lifestyle options and you almost instantly come down with one hell of a bad case of Strep Throat.

Declaring not to be beaten by the damn infection that is Strep Throat, though, I kept to my diet while I lolled around on the couch in a sickly stupor. Needless to say, I lost no weight last week (the first week of my new eating plan) because I was unable to barely open my eyelids, let alone raise my heart rate to a fat burning level. I did, however, enjoy a Buffy marathon, watch stacks of X-Files, and acquaint myself with Arrested Development.

So I’m resetting and starting again. Strep Throat – you will not beat me and my plans for slender summer legs!

Although i’m not completely better (note the green gunk I coughed up this morning when I got out of bed) I feel its time to kick this infection in the butt and sweat it out once more. Boo to spring time sickness.

Stay tuned for progress reports, and no doubt, many grumbling, moaning updates about how hard the detox phase of the diet is…