A Studio Lakeville spin class. Photo by Stephanie Koven
It’s the last week of January. It’s dark and cold, and my separation agreement still isn’t signed. I am usually a pretty optimistic person, but when I got back from the city last week and discovered my car had been towed (it wouldn’t start because of the sub-zero freeze), I started to feel a bit picked on. Wasn’t it enough that I had stopped drinking? And then, with little or no warning, I was overwhelmed by an even worse feeling: my jeans were tight. Clearly the holidays had been too much fun.
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