The Beginning...

ERIN: Most stories end with a wedding. Ours starts with one.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me tell you a little about us. Mike and I met almost five years ago when I moved up from Texas to go to grad school in Boston. It was love at first sight and blah, blah, blah...you don't need to hear about all the sweet, gooey, hey-get-a-room years that ensued. Though they were some pretty fantastic years. So fantastic, in fact, that I tried to act appropriately surprised when Mike got down on his knee and proposed on Christmas Day 2008.

He still maintains that he fell out of his chair.

Now, Mike and I are a bit...well, I like the term "fluffy." When we started planning for the wedding, we knew that a diet was on the horizon. But since the big date was in October 2010, it was far enough away that losing weight became "one of those things we can do later." So time went by...we booked a church and a venue...I bought a dress (quite by accident at Running of the Brides)...we found a DJ...we booked our honeymoon...and suddenly it was a year until the wedding and we hadn't even tried to lose weight. Not so much as a rice cake had passed our threshold.

Then we had a belated breakthrough. We wend to our friends' wedding in October 2009. The breakthrough? They had each lost a significant amount of weight on Weight Watchers. Brilliant! We could do that! Why belated? OK, so it didn't really kick in until December. But on Christmas 2009, we decided that losing weight needed to be upgraded to "one of those things we need to do NOW." And that was our New Year's resolution. So starting January 6, 2010, Mike and I were officially card-carrying Weight Watchers members.

Fast forward to today. So far, I've lost 36 pounds, and Mike has lost 44.2 pounds (it is not a competition, it is not a competition). One of the biggest reasons for this is the food. Every night, I cook a dish that I find in a Weight Watchers recipe book. It's been such a fun and interesting process (tuna noodle casserole notwithstanding), that we wanted to share with others...others who didn't roll their eyes at the words "we made the best recipe last night!" Thus, the beauty of a blog - you can roll your eyes, but we can't see you!

On a (fairly) regular basis, we plan to post about the (mostly) Weight Watchers recipes that (mainly) I cook, Mike eats with relish (most of the time), all of which help us lose that fluffiness I was talking about. I'll write about the cooking, and Mike will write about the eating. And we'll both shamelessly boast about the losing. And, hopefully, you'll get to do some boasting yourself!

MIKE: What she said.