My blogspot is about “losing weight” or really, for me and others like me, it is about being healthy and taking care of ourselves.

The entire journey I will recount begins with a decision, but includes multiple decisions along the way, including silencing the nay-sayer in our head who criticizes us when we eat something “off” plan. These self-sabotaging voices begin early in life, and must be silenced.

I felt the same inadequacy financially recently until I realized even the cheapest furniture stores were running ads with incredible home offices/furniture, but most people DON’T have that and most people don’t even have room for that in their lives. I learned to know that “I don’t need that” and to be satisfied with what I have because it works for me.

I am a size 12 now and that works for me, tho I sometimes think I am too skinny. Just not in the same places it used to be, as Vanna White said after she got back “into shape” after giving birth to her first child.