I hope to end this era...

It occurred to me today that I gained all of that weight almost a decade ago. It was approximately 2001. This had nothing to do with 9/11 and everything to do with poor eating habits and an inactive lifestyle.

I was running on a treadmill today and I realized that this has to be finished soon. I need to be in a "maintenance" mode. I cannot let this journey span a decade. This isn't a phase, it is an era. I need to get to the end of it, where worrying about how clothes fit is a memory and not a thought in the back of my mind as I drive from place to place.

I'm over it. I need to be done with this.

Cheers to my upcoming maintenance, tentatively scheduled before 2011.