The diet starts... today!

Looking through some old photos last night really surprised me. There are pictures of me when I was 16-19ish where I actually look quite thin. I know I wasn't thin, but compared to how I look now, I seem to have been positively sylphlike. Since this is a moderately depressing turn of events, I've decided to take the only logical course of action and try to be thin again, or at least thinner. Accordingly, the diet starts today. Unfortunately, since I eat bugger all anyway (there are plenty of people who will attest to this, one of them had to remind me to eat for the duration of my time at uni) it's going to have to be fairly severe. There's going to be exercise too, of a fashion. I'm not going to be killing myself running about the place but I'll be doing the anaerobic stuff I can handle on the machine I bought for that purpose last year, and maybe a bit of walking too.

Right now I look at myself in the mirror and think "Yeargh! Why would anyone want to be with *that*?". I'd rather not think those sorts of things. In particular I'd rather not think about anyone *else* thinking those sorts of things.