As I sit here and type, my girlfriends that are doing the South Beach Diet with me have all lost in between 6-8 pounds, as of yesterday.

Wanna know how much I’ve lost? 2. I lost those two pounds while I was sick, as well, so I’m assuming it was because I wasn’t eating, and spent a whole lot of time in the bathroom.

I’m fit and healthy already, I just happen to be carrying a little more weight than I’m comfortable with. It looks like losing that weight is going to be doubly hard for me. Where my friends started dropping weight right away, mine hasn’t budged. In fact, when I got on the scales this morning, I had put on a half a kilogram. I’ve been eating so well and exercising my heart out. It’s incredibly frustrating.

So my question is, what lengths do women like me – who are muscular, and cardiovascularly already fit – have to go to in order to slim down?

I spy with my little eye, a potential freelance article topic. I wonder if Women’s Health or Shape would be interested in running it?

PROJECT!

Stay tuned for more South Beach success/failures to come.

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…