Less is More

Okay, I've tried but apparently the pounds that I have gradually put on post pregnancies are not going to just spontaneously fall off. Why? I don't know. They spontaneously got on there. I mean one day I was a strapping young woman with all of her wobbly bits in the appropriate places and then wham bam thank you mam 12 years later I'm a mess. I blame Al Gore. I'm not sure why but I do.

I have decided that I need to be much more proactive in my quest to be better at 40 than I was at 30. I'm not going for Cougar or anything I just want to accomplish a few tasks....

1. I don't want to jiggle.
2. I want to banish the 2nd chin into oblivion.
3. I would like to have a waist.
4. I would like to be able to cross my legs in a lovely fashion.
5. I would like a random stranger to whistle at me.
6. I would like to buy clothes with one digit sizes.
7. I would like to go into the store in the mall that their sizes only go up to a nine and be able to tell the woman that was rude to me that she has made a huge mistake.
8. I would like be able to be in a family picture without feeling like I need to use a child or two and part of my husband to cover my poundage.
9. I would like to feel better physically and mentally.
10. If I want to eat a cookie, I don't want to feel guilty about it.

Now, this is not going to be an easy task. It is going to take a while. It took me 12 years to put it all on it is going to take more than an overnight to get it all off. I'm sure I will have my backslide moments. I'm not going to be all radical because I can guarantee you that won't work for me. If I say no chocolate you will find me one Sunday morning behind the baptistry with a bag of Caramel treasures speaking in tongues. It will not be pretty and I will not demonstrate...I hope.

My mom has this saying Less is More. That is going to be my catch phrase. We have all seen the women that are wearing so much makeup that you could scratch your name in it. Don't you just want to go up to them and wash it all off and reapply about an 1/8 of what they had on and show them how good they could look? This is my concept. I feel that with less weight draggin around behind me....literally...I will feel better. I plan to move the whole thing not only into weight but also into the clutter of my house and other areas as well. We shall see.

Wish me luck!