I'm a hater when it comes to the 'lollipop' song.

What? You've never heard the musical, magical song involving lollipops?

Well, you're in for a treat. It just so happens I found this mockery of a song and its video.

Here you go (This is not one for the kiddies) :

It's a sad day for hip-hop when this garbage is the number 1 song.

And can you get your boys? Basically, the only grown men who carry around lollipops are. . . well. . . usually arrested after they try to use them to lure small children into their cars.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a stupid song?

This week I'm on a music snob rant. Dont' mind me.

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or does Clay Aiken look really creepy in this video?

It's like he and Carrot Top are fighting for the title of "Most Frightening Makeover."

Aiken looks like the real-life version of his wax figure at the famous Madame Tussauds.

Ok, this is where I tell you I've never been ached for Clay Aiken.

(Ha ha ha. I know. I have a million of those!)

With each makeover, he looks creepier and more Ken-doll like.

No, I shouldn't insult Ken that way. After all, he's still trying to move on after Barbie.

Does anyone else think Aiken looks like a scary clown?

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Hard.

At this point, I'm somewhere under the wagon, being dragged by it and my extra weight.

Between heartache and the stress of returning work and my physical therapy, I've managed to gain back my lost pounds.

I can't tell you how pleased I am about this.

Actually, I feel like dirt for backsliding.

No, it's not peanut butter jelly time.

(Beware - more fat woman brooding in the jump. . . )

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Always the classy fashion icon, Juliette Lewis performs at a Netherlands concert and strkes a pose.

Hmmm. . . well . . .

I'm not really sure what to say about this one. What nice things could I say?

Nice yellow pants?

At least her pits are shaved?

Her hair doesn't look too greasy?

Nice. . .vajayjay shot?

I'm spent. What do you guys think of this one.

Please, don't hold back.

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As promised, I'm posting some of the older blog post for those of you who are new to the blog, or for those who want to relive my humble start.

So, here's Nightmares of the Pleasantly Plump, one of my first blog posts.

It explains what I need to do and how much I'm trying to lose.

If this week's weigh-in (I gained three pounds), is any indicator, this is going to be a LONG haul.

Sigh.

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I just wanted you guys to know that my diet partner, Amanda, is doing super on her diet.

In just a few weeks she's lost 20 - count that - 20 pounds!

We at Weighing In are so proud of my homey's achievement that she too gets the peanut butter jelly time treatment.

So, here's the video again, to celebrate my homey's weight loss.

Way to go, Amanda.

Keep up the good work.

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As usual, I'm confused.

Apparently, a new study says that if you get too little sleep, or you get too much sleep, you are more likely to be obese.

What if you do both at different times?

Some nights, I may get my full seven to eight hours. (And if I don't, co-workers beware.)

Others, I can barely get four or five hours because I stayed up to late reading. . . Yeah, that's what I was doing up late. . .

Anywho, now I know why I'm fat.

Thanks, new CDC study.

Here's the story on it.

Let me know what you guys think of this one.

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Who decides whether your girls should be restrained or run free?

You?

Your man?

Society?

This is exactly the problem pondered in this column in Annie's Mailbox.

The writer is perplexed about whether she, heavy breasts and all, should wear a bra.

Her husband, she says, likes for her girls to be free at all times, and she lets them bounce around, even after getting dirty looks from other women at groceries stores and in public.

(Count me in on that one - please, sister, cover those things up!)

What to do?

What to do? I just don't know.

The girls at the mailbox set her straight.

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Guess what popular blog celebrates its one-year anniversary this month?

(I'll help you out.)

It's mine!

On May 7, I celebrate 12 whole months of telling you my thoughts on dieting, food, clothing and pop culture.

Blogging is awesome.

To celebrate, I'll be doing some blog reruns (read: I'm too lazy to compose new ones), to let you see some of my early posts you may have missed.

Thanks to all of you, this blog gets more than 1,000 hits a month (That's right, ya'll. Tell your friends.)

So, you guys rock. Thanks for your support and your comments.

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By now, you've seen or heard something about the controversial photos of teen star Miley Ray Cyrus.

If not, here's the dish:

Miley, 15, otherwise known as the pop music and Disney television show star Hannah Montana, recently had a photo shoot with Vanity Fair and photography great Annie Leibovitz.

Both Miley's parents, creepy dad Billy Ray Cyrus, and her mother, whatshername, were at the shoot, and approved the photos.

However, when the naked photo from the shoot, with Miley draped only in a sheet came out, all heck broke loose.

Miley said Leibovitz's shots "embarassed" her. Leibovitz said the portrait was approved by Miley and her parents, and that it is art.

Here's one of the many stories on the controversy.

What made me mad about the whole deal was the following quote from Disney about the whole thing:

"Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines," a network statement said.

What?!?!?!

Are they serious?

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I'm getting down to the last part of my SutriSystem shipment.

Let's just say I don't have many savory choices left at this point.

It's tempting to not eat the stuff, because I've had all my favorites already.

But like W, I'm staying the course.

I just can't wait until I get another shipment in a few days.

C'mon FedEx, help a sister out!

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Hi guys.

I know. It's Tuesday, and this is like the first time I've posted this week.

Don't mind me, I'm slacking off.

I hope to have some new and exciting posts for you soon.

In the meantime, I weighed in this morning.

I gained a half a pound.

There's no peanut butter jelly time this week.

I'm hoping it's just water weight.

Sigh.

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This one's for Nancy, a librarian at the newspaper and one of my most faithful readers.

Thanks, Nancy, and good luck to you and everyone else looking for the perfect swimwear.

Here are my tips on it in a previous blog post, Swimsuit shopping or torture? I'll take torture.

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Reporters don't get to use certain words, like penis, often.

Call it what you want (the words crushing oppression come to mind), but some words don't get their due in the newspaper.

So, when a reporter gets to use the words sorcerers, black magic and penises in the first paragraph, you can be assured that the gods of journalism have smiled down upon that writer and granted a rare miracle.

A lucky Joe from the Reuters news service got to do just that in this story.

(cue up "miracle music," with harps and opera singers. . .)

Amazing.

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Enough is enough.

I'm tired of looking like an old woman.

I'm tired of struggling to get it out of my car.

I'm tired of almost (and sometimes) smacking myself in the face with it when I'm in a confined space.

That's it - I'm ditching this cane.

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I burrowed deeper under my covers this morning when I thought about getting on the scale today.

I just wanted to stay in that comfy place where I didn't have to look down at those black digital numbers.

But, Mo, my cat, was walking on my head, and I needed to shower.

Off to the bathroom, and to the scale.

I stepped on the scale and looked down at the readout.

I lost four pounds!

Go Michele, Go Michele!

You guys know what time it is?

It's peanut butter jelly time. It's peanut butter jelly time.

(You have to have read this previous blog post to get that one.)

This dancing cat is about how I feel today.

I rock.

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Now that I'm trying to lose my extra chub, it seems that I'm really noticing everyone else's.

From the jiggly belly of a woman who reached up for a box of diet crackers in front of me at the grocery store to the rotund man next to me at the gas pump, I'm noticing more fat folks.

Now, I'm not trying to be judgemental.

Remember, I am still a fat chick.

But it appears that we are all getting . . . rounder.

Any thoughts?

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I'm sick.

No, not mentally, though some would argue that point, but physically.

I have strep throat, and a double ear infection.

Yeah!

I feel like dirt, or worse, if you can imagine.

When I'm sick, I like comfort food such as creamy soups, hearty breads and marshmellow-filled hot chocolate.

You know, things to warm my tummy and help me feel better.

But I'm on a diet.

And though the SutriSystem food has been tasty, its no where near comfort food.

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This morning was my big weigh in.

After a WHOLE week of eating stuff on my SutriSystem diet, I looked the scale and was like, "Bring on the results!"

I went into the bathroom and looked down at my sworn enemy - the scale.

But I was ready for it, this time. I knew I'd lost something big.

I didn't.

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