The Diet Naked Blog

This Blog is on Hiatus

You can find lots to read in the archives.

You can find me on Facebook.

You can follow me on Twitter.

I still post over on my personal blog, Actual Unretouched Photo.

I will be back.  Sometime.  You can also email me at Melodee (at) gmail (dot) com.

Announcement

On the day after Easter three years ago, I gave up sugar, white flour, potatoes and white rice.  It was my last-ditch effort to lose weight and I was scared.  I had agreed to write a blog for ClubMom.com (which no longer exists) and I feared embarrassment and failure.

Instead, I found success and a community of supportive, lovely blog readers.

And so with regret, I must announce that I'm putting this blog on hiatus.  For over a year, I have been working full-time online (for CafeMom.com--awesome website you should check out).  I have four children and a husband.  And now, I have committed to writing a novel by Thanksgiving.  I am at my breaking point. 

Clearly, something has to go.  And that something is this blog.  Just for now. 

Meanwhile, I started my day with a bowl of old-fashioned oatmeal and a pledge to stop eating white flour, white sugar, white potatoes and white rice.  I am determined to peel off the weight that found its way back to me.  (I lost 60 pounds and regained 40!)

Now, please don't abandon me! 

You can still find me blogging over at Actual Unretouched Photo. 
You can follow me on Twitter or Facebook. 
You can email me at Melodee (at) gmail (dot) com.

Plus, I have fantastic archives you can browse, even though there will be no new content for now. 

I wish you all well.  Please keep in touch.

I'm in California

It was strange.  When I flew out of Seattle this morning at 6:45 a.m., rain pelted the windows of the airplane.  When I landed in San Jose ninety minutes later, the sun was shining, birds were singing and I hadn't even eaten the snack they gave me.  I might have if I had remembered.  But I was way too tired after getting four hours of sleep.

But enough about me. 

What I want to talk about is other people who have gained weight back.  (Smite me now for having noticed; I feel bad about it, but I can't help it.)  I noticed last night while half-heartedly watching ER that one of the nurses on that show gained back a lot of the weight she lost a few years ago.  And Kelly Clarkson appears to have gained weight.  And I think it's sad that I notice these things . . . but how can I not?

And that is why I know that everyone can't help but notice my weight gain.  I judge and therefore, I feel judged.

I really have no analysis or even a commentary.  Actually, my contacts have stuck to my eyes and my headache reminds me that sleep is actually NOT optional, despite my deepest desire to eliminate sleep entirely from my schedule.  Also, I am sitting on a vinyl couch in a lodge in the area that has wi-fi between two people who are comparing who they know.  They are quite entertaining, but I cannot think straight or see straight, so it's probably best that I end this.