A new development already!
First of all, I decided to go out in style today, so we went out tonight and got the biggest, fattest chocolate dessert you can possibly imagine. At this point, I could very easily not look at chocolate for at least a week - blech! Should be an easy start to the month.
We were out with another couple tonight who are both friends and neighbors, who also belong to our gym and have been working on losing weight. In the course of conversation (over our monstrous chocolate desserts), I challenged John to a no-chocolate contest for the month of July. He accepted the challenge, so we're on for 31 days. If either of us slips up, that couple takes the other couple out to dinner at the restaurant of the winner's choice. John's wife Alice and my hubby - neither of whom, by the way, really likes sweets (we hate them) - are going to put the peer pressure on us.
I'm thrilled at this prospect, because this is such a big stretch that I kind of needed an extra incentive to push my way through it. Now I'm more optimistic, especially because John admitted that he has trouble avoiding the M&M dispenser on the reception desk in his office. Heh heh heh...it's on, my friend...