Shredding for the Wedding (or really refusing to buy bigger pants)

So I'm back!

For those that don't know I left: I started a blog a few years about moving to Spain, that basically degenerated into a bunch of drunken rants about travel and pintxos. It was pretty cool, if I do say so myself. But once I left Spain, I was hard pressed to believe that anyone cared about me living on my friend's couch in NY, so the blog petered into non-existence, as all good New Year's resolutions do.

But now I'm back!

I'm still in NY, but not living on a couch. Still working in education, but for more than 12 hours a week (now 12 hours a day. FML). Still drunkenly ranting, but now bemoaning how that's adding an inch a day to my waistline while I start prepping my body to squeeze into a wedding dress like some sort of stuffed sausage.

Joder!

Basically, this came about because I am Type A as shit and working in charter schools has me all, "I need accountability and clear metrics of success or I am doomed to fail and all of the children of the world will fail because I'm a failure that never set a clear vision of excellence for myself like failures do!"

Don't worry. I have a therapist for these issues.

However, I do think it'd be cool to track all the crazy in the process and invite some folks to watch me like a fucking zoo animal and critique my ability to stay on track.

So begins the process.

For some back story, in all the drunken shenanigans of Spain, I still managed to lose an insane 40lbs. I couldn't really speak the language so I spent a lot of time at the gym and, thanks to their culture, eating on very small plates. I also learned to feel like Cersei whenever I tried to eat on the go, so that limited my mindless snacking like whoa.

So I came back with this hot bod of 120 lbs:

Which I was actually able to maintain for over 2 years!!! Theeeeeen, cut to my new swanky job where I am school administrator strapped to my desk for most of the day and eating to forget that I have no windows, so now I look like this:

Damnit!

So now I'm dragging whoever is reading this along, in my quest back to my 'Before' picture and hope this helps me in getting there. Also, you guys are always up on the cool recipes and shit. Stop hoarding and start sharing!

Consider this blog my cry for help!