I haven’t worn a bikini since 2003, and even then it was for one fleeting weekend when I was feeling unreasonably confident. The pictures from that trip say so. We were at the beach, I was feeling all hawt and thin. In reality my belly was pudgy and I had no business in a two-piece. …

Where I used to walk into my kitchen/bedroom/bathroom/living room and see too much work to even start, I now sometimes can’t find a thing to do because everything is where it should be. Not kidding.

None of us should spend our days grumpy because our houses are trashed and the people living there rely on us to be fed.
I used to think of dinner around 3:00 p.m. and get all panicky trying to figure out what to make with the ground beef and various vegetables in my refrigerator. Now I start dinner at 5:00 without a single thought prior to that moment and have it on the table by 5:30. And my groceries cost about $40/week.

“When you eat when you are not hungry you are using food as a drug.”