i'm no kirstie alley

or valerie bertinelli for that matter, but i've been thinking about the same 25 pounds for the last 10 years and still can't motivate to lose them. in the old days you could just drink a lot of coffee, smoke a lot of cigarettes, go to a couple of aerobics classes and lose 10 pounds in a week. well, those days have been long gone for a while. i know if i can psych myself into it i would succeed. i just can't seem to get my brain on board and my butt off the couch!

my step brother was just made vp marketing of jenny craig north america and i wonder if i could be a jenny craig success story. a little family motivation? i tried weight watchers and vividly remember the woman who ran the meeting plopping down on the table 10 pounds of fat from the butcher. ok, it was a very powerful visual, but so disgusting. what if i just continued eating the way i am and went to the gym a lot? but what kind of gym? spin? i'm totally intimidated. core fusion? done it, liked it, but it's so hard. stairs? so many parts of my body are already a little achy. kvetching doesn't burn calories, does it?

if i can quit smoking, which i did almost 7 years ago, i should be able to conquer anything. i keep saying that to myself and it's not making me feel invincible or motivating me either. maybe if i just pick a date in the near future as my start date, this would begin the process of psyching myself. that's what i did with cigarettes and it worked. i had to get to the point of hating cigarettes and having the stop date helped.

wwcd:  so now it's just which one - january 25, february 5 or president's weekend?