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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall…
November 28, 2007 - Wednesday
Posted by Pamela
So...the pictures of The Kokopelli Ball are on line.
Take a peek...it’s an opportunity to see all the wonderful people that supported The AFA that glamorous November evening. I am sure that you will recognize many faces...But don’t go yet...take a minute..and read the rest of this...I have an invitation to all of you...so read on…
First a personal disclosure...I always have a love/hate relationship with the pictures...and that is really about me. I think that I have been every size through the past ten years of this Ball....I have been smaller...and I have been larger!!!
This year....I was kind of medium/large. I could almost look at myself without wanting to throw myself from the window...especially if I squinted my eyes…
I have been on Atkins for six months. It’s a part of me becoming whole with myself. I have lost five inches on my waist...I am eight pounds from being the size that I WAS in the picture to the right....So...soon I will look like THAT again! Only with more wrinkles…
My experience with infertility really took a toll on my self esteem...and I gained weight with fertility medications...and then my pregnancies...with kids who are now 19 and 15...I can no longer blame my weight on “I just had a baby!!!”
I used that for years!!!
I have always self medicated with food. I know that I am not alone. And change is not easy...and giving up what helps us cope...is really hard. Especially when we are stressed...and if you are trying to conceive...you might be feeling a little stress....now add in the Holidays! Can anyone say “Let’s gain ten pounds?”
Yesterday I watched Oprah. She was doing one of her inspirational shows on weight loss. You know the ones..the one where people literally lose enough weight to create another human being?
And they do it on their own...or with a book...no surgery...and I have got to tell you...I sat and watched completely fascinated. The sheer determination....and one women lost 200 pounds so that she could adopt a child! In one year!!! And yes...there are weight restrictions for some adoptions...really fat people need not apply.
So...where am I leading with all of this? Well, I hate to say this...but I will...a healthy weight is really important for conceiving...or adopting. And I am talking to all of you REALLY skinny people too! With fertility...you really need to be in a normal weight range...too thin or too fat...and you could really have trouble…
I may be past my child bearing years...but I am still dealing with my child bearing weight issues....so I will partner with you....Once a week I will tell you how I am doing...and I invite you to join me.
Let’s get healthy now...before the ten pounds start to come on...I know that I started a little ahead of you...but that doesn’t matter...I am a really, really slow loser....like...if there was some kind of disaster...I would live for weeks after everyone else...with no food.
It’s really not just about the mirror...even though let’s face it...I am as vain as anyone...it’s really about our health...our heart health...keeping away diabetes...high blood pressure...and yes...it is also about fertility and having a healthy pregnancy....
So..who is in???
And who knows..maybe we will get on Oprah!!!
Until Tomorrow,
Pamela
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