I swear, if I end up spending the night in Chicago, I may have to hurt someone. I am SO READY to be HOME.

meara, if you do get stuck here, let me know! I've got a bed you can use (I usually end up sleeping on the couch anyway), and I'm only a 20-minute drive from O'Hare.

Aww, thanks Kathy! The good thing IS that I know lots of people in Chicago that I'd be happy to have dinner or a drink with....I just realllllly want to be home in my own bed.

Can you get to your e-mail? I can send my phone number to your profile addy if you do end up here overnight.

Yes, thank god, I've got a new cellphone-broadband card for the work computer.

I think right now they're anticipating us getting in twenty minutes before the other flight takes off. Maybe. Right now we dont' have a plane. I'm just saying, they SHOULD"VE put me on the earlier flight...

My phone number's on its way to you now.

Like I said in the e-mail, I hope you do get home tonight, but if not, I'd love to see you!

Good luck, meara!

Everyone should anticipate me being obsessed with the calorie counts everywhere for a while. In the window of Dunkin Donuts just now: "Free Iced Coffee Day! 25 calories."

My mom went for a while to a residential weight-loss program (she was there for about three weeks, and then following the program at home for about a year) that was about 1200 calories per day. She said that at first she felt hungry, but then after a little while, it felt like the right amount to eat.

When I was tracking my diet on Fitday, I never once believed its calorie count - it always pegged me at around 1400-1600 calories a day, which I just plain knew wasn't the case. Eventually I gave up on it altogether.

The only thing that's ever been helpful for me in losing weight was going off the pill. I pretty much dropped 20 lbs overnight without trying.

Yeah, but then you got knocked up.

Oh right... I guess there was one other side-effect.

But actually I didn't notice the weight loss until after he was born. All my pre-preggers clothes are loose now.