I’m sure you knew it was coming at some point, lol. The battle of the bulge is the closest I have come to a battle, well besides rolling 20 sided dice when I played D&D, yes, I said D&D and I was an adult, well, quasi adult when I played, but I’ll save that story for another day. Ok, then there the battle of the bands and the warrior dash, does that count? Stop laughing at me!

Back to the battle of the bulge… I, like so many I know and so many I don’t, have fought or are fighting..said battle… I’ve battled this particular foe since I was a teenager, I went up, I went down, I went sideways. I didn’t realize how heavy I had gotten by the end of my marriage, but it was a lot, for someone with my frame and then I lost about 30 pounds, I don’t recommend the method, but I looked fabulous! I started volunteering to be in photos, I felt great, 30 pounds and 2 dress sizes, what???

Since that major loss (the weight goofballs), I haven’t totally maintained that weight, haven’t gone back up in dress size, but I’m kind of back in the battle again. I go up a little, I go down a little, par for the course.There are a lot of motivations out there, I want to wear a bikini for my next Bahamas trip or at least feel better in a bathing suit. Then, yesterday, when I was walking, i could see my shadow and it was lumpier than I want it to be, so one of my new motivations is to keep working at it until things smooth out, in my shadow! totally dorky, but it works for me. My friend said “you’re going to write about that?” Why not! Lol
I also have a dress that I wore years ago on a weekend trip to NYC with the boy I was mad for right out of college, I remember the look on his face when I wore it. It’s from Lord N Taylor, 1950s and I got it at a consignment shop and someday…

Aside from the dress and the bathing suit, I want to be healthy and fully comfortable in my own skin. I like who I am, but there are those days I look in the mirror and I’m like, really? And I know I’m the only one…yeah right!

So…here’s to my journey of getting healthier, running (maybe even liking it, that’s another blog for another day), looking in the mirror and saying “wow!”, the dress and the bikini. Maybe I’ll see you on my walk through my neighborhood, around the mountain, at a race somewhere or event the gym!

There are a lot of motivators out there… What’s yours?