I’m a 32 year old woman who has struggled with weight and body image issues since preschool. Oh, and I’m also a restaurant critic, cookbook author, and all-around food writer–a career path that makes maintaining a healthy weight more of a challenge than it has ever been.
Last summer, my wedding band got too tight. It was right around the time I went to Le Bec-Fin, Vetri, and Talula’s Table all in the same week. After months with my head in the sand, I decided to hop on the scale. I weighed 159 pounds. (When I first got into food writing I weighed about 135.) I’m only 5 foot 4 inches tall. I lost about 10 pounds, just enough to wear my wedding ring again, and have been weighing myself daily since.
This blog is a promise to myself that I’ll report what I weigh today, everyday. I am not dieting. (I don’t eat fake or processed foods of any kind, but especially not “lite” foods.) I’m trying to figure out what is a sane, stable, healthy weight that I can maintain for the rest of my eating, cooking, restaurant-centric life. E-mail me at joymanning at gmail dot com.