I take my coffee with three sugars.

It is clearly not news to anyone that I am dependent on caffeine.  THAT is not what I feel like talking about, now, though.  Instead I'm going to talk about my weight.

Given my build, my healthy weight range is from 145-175, or maaaaybe 150-180.  Until I was twenty-one I never even touched the upper boundaries of that range -- my metabolism was high enough that I literally had to eat four meals a day to keep myself from losing weight.  When I turned 21 I was at 160, which was pretty much ideal for me.

From June 2005 to December 2008 I put on roughly one pound every month.  Less in the middle of summer, more in the holiday season, but the end result was that at the end of 2008 I was between 205 and 210 pounds.  Being a little overweight didn't bother me, but that was just enough that I became winded more easily, sweated more, and spent just enough extra physical energy moving around that I could do less of anything else than i was used to.  Now, I know that this does not constitute a serious weight problem and that a good many people have it far worse than me.  But at that time, realizing that every time I put on a pair of pants I wound up with a sore red band around my waist at the end of the day, I had had enough, and I made a New Years' Resolution. 

Not to lose weight.  But to stop drinking pop.  For seven months I did not drink soda so much as once, and since that point, while I have wavered and fallen off the wagon from time to time, I have mostly stuck to the rule that I have pop every now and again in restaurants, limit my refills, and at home I drink coffee to get my fix.

The coffee thing was hard to adjust to -- to some extent I had acquired the taste, but when I began the switch I needed 5-7 sugars per cup to make it taste good to me.  Thaaaaat was at least as much as there was in a can of pop, so I whittled it down, until now I'm at about 2 and a half.

Since I stopped drinking pop I have not gained any weight.

I have not LOST a significant amount -- month to month it changes, seemingly stuck in a range between 200 and 210 -- 195 to 205 if I'm lucky.  But that extra critical mass ( ha ha) seems to have come entirely from pop.

Probably, if I cut down on cheese and butter, I could start actually making a dent in this doughy tire that hangs around my waist.  But to be honest I would rather be a little chubby than give up parmesan.

Now I feel silly.

I have intended to start crossposting for a long time, since people seem to be gradually migrating to Dreamwidth (let me know if you need an invite code) and I do like the ethos and transparency at Dreamwidth, while at LJ I like my massive unwieldy and stubborn friendlist.

I, uh, never realized just how easy it was to set up crossposting, though, or I would have done it ages ago.  For those of you who have, like me, been considering it without investigating it, hop over to Dreamwidth and have a look.  It took me about ten seconds to set up.

ETA: Now, how easy/complicated is it to import old posts from one platform to the other?  Do I have to go back and do it manually, one at a time, or is there some clever app that would let me mass-duplicate old posts and toss 'em up here?  Central archiving is nice...

Also, something I don't know yet and am about to find out:  will this edit automatically crosspost as well?

ETA2:  Apparently it will.  Nifty.

ETA3:  And as of now I have imported everything from both matt_doyle and mattador .

Holy cow.