BONNIE180's Story
Cool, a place to talk about myself all the time without feeling selfish and self absorbed. I am a mother of 3 wonderful young children and 2 medium sized dogs. My husband and I have been married sence fall of 2001 (sigh...2 weeks after 9/11). We go to church on sundays and I drive a mini van and LOVE to shop. Now that you all have a mental picture of the typical "soccer mom" lets share some deeper information. I LOVE Godsmack, black finger nail polish, drink and smoke (I occationaly use profanity also). I suck at spelling, value long term friendships and hate paying bills. The reason I say all this is because I'm also honest. I'm not perfect, But I am in control. I have had weight issues for most of my life.
Now the problem with that statement is that after looking back at my childhood pictures, I was a healthy athletic young girl who happend to hit puberty a bit early. Yes, I'm thicker then most even at my ideal weight. Its my body style. As a young woman I was told by several people close to me that I was "fat" and called names I'm sure everyone here has heard. This became an issue because a beautiful girl that I was saw distorted reflections in mirrors and spent endless hours crying about it. I am not a member of this site to loose weight. I am here to learn how to be healthy and more important how to teach my children how to. Loosing weight it just a nice reward for eating healthy. I swear to all that I will never, NEVER allow my children to feel that they are less of a person because they are thick - and they will be, there a part of me! I will show them how there body style are an advantage in all they do and sports they choose, even in the clothes they wear. I will teach them to be self assured no matter if there in a ball gown going to prom or lake side hooking a worm on a hot afternoon. I will teach them that smarts are more important then looks. I will teach them this because the whole of the world will tell them otherwise. I want to make good people out of them, not lifeless, air brushed, ice cube eating cover model. With that said my blog begins...
Now the problem with that statement is that after looking back at my childhood pictures, I was a healthy athletic young girl who happend to hit puberty a bit early. Yes, I'm thicker then most even at my ideal weight. Its my body style. As a young woman I was told by several people close to me that I was "fat" and called names I'm sure everyone here has heard. This became an issue because a beautiful girl that I was saw distorted reflections in mirrors and spent endless hours crying about it. I am not a member of this site to loose weight. I am here to learn how to be healthy and more important how to teach my children how to. Loosing weight it just a nice reward for eating healthy. I swear to all that I will never, NEVER allow my children to feel that they are less of a person because they are thick - and they will be, there a part of me! I will show them how there body style are an advantage in all they do and sports they choose, even in the clothes they wear. I will teach them to be self assured no matter if there in a ball gown going to prom or lake side hooking a worm on a hot afternoon. I will teach them that smarts are more important then looks. I will teach them this because the whole of the world will tell them otherwise. I want to make good people out of them, not lifeless, air brushed, ice cube eating cover model. With that said my blog begins...