Operation: Sexy Bitch

there is a universal truth among us military wives. more powerful than the desire to lose weight for swimsuit season (which, in hawaii, is all the time), or to fit into a wedding dress, or to look good for a high school reunion: the deployment diet.

if you're on the deployment diet, you fall into one of two columns: either you are the one deploying, or your spouse is. last deployment cycle, i belonged in the first column. there is no skinny like deployment skinny. it's too hot in the desert to eat much, and there's nothing to do to waste time besides work out. i now am in the second column. i am no longer in the navy, but billy (my heroic, self-sacrificing, heroic, naval aircrewman husband) has left for japan for 6 months. therefore, i am going to not only dedicate the next half year of my life to not only losing weight and getting in shape to look super, SMOKIN hot by the time hubby gets home, but i'm going to do so primarily by training for the honolulu marathon, which is in december.

and i'm going to chronicle my progress here. because when your spouse is gone, you have a lot more spare time on your hands....