PS

A disclaimer: I am posting easily available pictures (befores oh-so-kindly posted recently by a frenemy on Facebook) before I lose my nerve. Which I may yet do and remove them. But here you go.

The befores (where I was about 230 lbs, or 16 and a half stone) are from my stint as People's St Tropez bureau chief in the summer of 2006, about three months before I started losing weight. (Maybe someday I'll hook up my scanner so I can scan a pic of me at my heaviest, at my sister's wedding in October of 2006.) For the record, the magnum of champagne you see me "drinking" in the second photo was basically the rent I had to pay for a seat in the VIP room of a totally obnoxious club for the evening, and I couldn't really drink it (you can't be running to pee every 45 seconds when you're on the job). The first photo was taken aboard Puff Daddy/P Diddy/Sean Combs's yacht, and in light of her current infamy I must be so obnoxious as to point out that it actually was taken by Sarah, the Duchess of York. Seriously! (I remember her telling me to put down my Blackberry long enough to look up and smile -- can't say I miss those days...)




And after...

(To be fair, these are not me at my absolute slimmest, but they're pretty accurate, I think, given Dorset pounds. The photo with the green top on the rock was taken in August 2009, the other green top photo is from the Windsor Half Marathon in September, and the blue dress photo is from early December. I'm about 10 stone 7, or about 147 lbs, in these photos.)