Tracey at sweetney.com announced her Flab-Be-Gone 2006 cult initiative today, and I’ve signed on to participate. I’m not sure what “signing on” entails, really, other than knowing that I’m not the only person out there struggling to lose weight.

I returned to Weight Watchers in September (I think), and I’ve been going to Jazzercise classes about three times a week, too. (Zip it, smartypants. I only get so many sanctioned opportunities to use jazz hands)

But I’ve only lost about 9 pounds. And I have a lot more than that to lose.

I know WW works — it’s worked for me before — but it requires writing down every bite and actually sticking to the program. I discovered that the act of writing it down doesn’t actually negate the effects of, say, eating two donuts beyond my daily Point allotment.

Anyway, in the interest of actually keeping up with my intake, I’ve set up my “food journal” over on the right-hand side bar. If you noticed I haven’t updated it in a day or so, please send me a friendly “get back on the wagon” e-mail. But make sure it’s friendly, and make sure you’re not Rockford. He tends to get in trouble for intervening in that sort of thing.