I am...

I AM:

a friend.
a daughter.
a teacher.
a worker.
smart.
single.
an only child.
forgetful.
funny.
disorganized.

I am also fat.

People hate that word.  For every person who doesn't want to be called fat, there are 10 synonyms for the word (my favorite is paunchy...and don't ever call me paunchy, haha).  So let's be honest with each other, I'm not a big fan of the F-word either.  But in a world where we all wish we could be identified by who we are as people, by our "personalities", we are really identified and judged by what we look like.  At least, that's why I'm assuming everyone tells us to Dress For Success when we interview for jobs.

I won't deny our tendencies to judge people by appearance only, but I won't sit idly by and blindly participate either.  This is not a blog where we take back the word fat, and embrace everything, and use it in my every day vocab.  I don't want to be called fat.  It will still hurt my feelings.  I want to be healthy, and Amy and I really want this blog to inspire people.  We don't want you to feel less than normal because someone said something mean to you once. 

I'd bet they had low self-esteem too.

We want you to get to know us better, and we want to get to know you.  We want to let you all into our lives and experience our struggles with weight loss, weight gain, clothes shopping, cooking, and just life in general.  We want to get healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, and who knows...maybe one day I'll run a marathon and live to brag about it ;-)

Talk.  Interact.  Share.

--Rita