Weight Loss Wednesday

Oh, how I love my new little Web site. For this Web site I would spoon in the mornings and blow out my hair and whisper dirty, inappropriate things I've never even uttered to my husband. TypePad and I, we are a match made in Heaven.

I almost love Weight Loss Wednesday just as much.

LAST WEEK'S WEIGHT: 137
CURRENT WEIGHT: 135
POUNDS TO GOAL WEIGHT: 10

When Luke read the numbers off the scale for me this morning, I rejoiced over a one-pound loss; it wasn't until typing this entry I realized last week's weigh-in was 137 and not 136 like I mistakenly thought, which means FOUR POUNDS have melted off my carcass since last month's Thanksgiving pig fest. And if I hadn't gone to Steak 'N Shake after retrieving Luke from the airport last night, it totally could've been three. But it was so worth it.

Perhaps even more impressive than the loss is that I've been able to do it while continuing to boycott the gym. My work projects aren't disappearing as quickly as I thought they would (really, do they ever?), so my return probably won't happen until sometime next week, right before Luke and I dash off to Merrillville and Chicago for the holidays, resulting in yet another week-long hiatus. So far the month of December has been anything but fitness-friendly, but somehow I'm still managing to produce respectable results. It's a Christmas miracle!

But enough about me. You want to hear more about the blog, don't you? At least, Kristie does. She posted a comment to yesterday's entry asking for more information about my decision to switch from Blogger to TypePad. It's a good question, too, especially with the launch of Blogger Beta, which allows users to customize their templates without having to dig through various lines of HTML.

I guess it comes down to your own personal comfort level. For me, ever since I started reading Amalah back in 2004, I've wanted a TypePad account. I liked that she had separate pages reserved for biographies and links and archives, and I liked that her blog didn't look as cookie-cutterish as some others I'd seen. If subscribing to TypePad was what it would take to create something similar, so be it. Plus, I had an embarrassingly hard time with Blogger. In addition to the frustration that often accompanied uploading pictures, I couldn't figure out how to create a banner with the proper specifications and was unable to customize little things like the color of the border of my profile picture because I couldn't locate the code. Even with the introduction of Beta, I'd had enough.

Compare it to dating a guy who constantly forgets to do little things like open your car door and chat with your mother before you take off for the movies and remove the cigarette out of his mouth before he tries to French you good-bye. Even if he promises to change, are you really going to pass up the opportunity to go out with someone who will not only ditch the cigarette but promise to never smoke at all? You have to shell out fourteen bucks a month to keep him clean, but still. Another case of "It's so worth it."

And so far, it has been. I was pretty confused in the beginning by all the different screen windows, but Lost A Sock had recently gone through this whole process herself and thankfully dealt with my vast bank of Stupid Questions with a patient and gracious hand. Since then, I've learned that many of Amalah's template options aren't standard TypePad features at all but clever CSS code she wrote her own damn self, but one thing at a time, my pretties. One thing at a time.

Comments

[Molly]

Good job on the loss!!

And seriously, your new blog is all kinds of fun.

:0)

[Mrs. S]

Sounds like you left Blogger for many of the same reasons I did, but I went with WordPress after doing everything manually via Dreamweaver for several months. Don't do the manual thing, EVER EVER EVER, if you're a seroius blogger (which you clearly are) 'cause trying to make archives without being a programmer will EAT. YOUR. BRAIN.

But I digress. I love your new site's look - it's very clean and un-cookie-cutter-ish - and the colors are wonderful :D

[Lizzy]

The site looks fantastic! And congrats on your loss.
Since my thyroid went all bonkers about 6 months post-partum, I'm back to where I was when I was 7 months pregnant. Gack!
There's a Weight Watchers somewhere out there calling my name!

[Lindsey]

I love your new site!! So cool.