Requesting Your Assistance

I am going to take a break from the never ending updates on my broken ankle/leg/bone graft/whatever to pose a question to you.  That would be you, my one lone reader…hey waving at you out there one lone reader…

Ok, silliness aside, I in talks (read twittering with) someone who is relatively well known in the fight against childhood obesity.  Yes, there are many out there who are part of this and some are actually celebrities *waving at you Arnold Swaz”.  And, I am doing my best to have another celebrity/celebrity blogger join us here on this blog in a national fight against childhood obesity.

I haven’t always been large.  I wasn’t obese as a child. As a matter of fact, in third grade when I was forced to change schools, all the teachers thought I was in the first grade.  Ahem…how dare they?  HaHa  However, I did enter puberty sooner than most of my classmates and I did take a lot of heat from them about my boobs and my butt and oh my, those other female bodily functions.  But, even then, I had an athletic frame, I could carry more weight than most of my peers and the breasts even though they were there and larger than my eighth/ninth grade peers, they were barely there because of the width of my shoulders.  My frame definitely falls into what the experts label as athletic. 

The problem came when I had the shoulders, the breasts, the hips, the legs, girlfriend used to have a hot set of legs but the downfall came when I started to gain weight in my mid-section.  Hindsight it was probably a side-effect of PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) but I didn’t have anyone to turn to to help me deal with it.  And, so, yes I had an athletic frame but my waist was basically the same size as my hips and shoulders.  No, 36, 28, 36 or however it is suppose to be on this body.

By the time I graduated I had managed to work myself into decent shape and was confident enough in a swimsuit, a one piece only, that I hit the beach after graduation and never looked back.  But, then, the weight started adding up.  When I was 23 I had managed to lose enough weight to put myself into a bikini for a summer of beach fun but since then, the stomach is a huge issue.

As it is now, yes, my hips, my waist and my shoulders are basically all the same.  And, the breasts?  They are purely fat.  If I weighed anywhere near my goal weight, I could easily fit into a B cup bra and I would be queen of the world.

So, with that, no I did not suffer from childhood obesity.  However, I was raised on fast food.  My dad and I would flip a coin for who chose the joint the burgers would come from on any given night.  Meals cooked and/or eaten at home occurred about once every two or three months.  I would eat home cooked meals at my mom’s about once a month.  (Mom and Dad divorced when I was 4, I lived with dad from 13 to 19 when he died.)

So, food habits that were born and bred in me as a teenager haunt me even still to this day.  I prefer fast food and restaurant prepared food to anything that even resembles a meal made at home.  I know that sounds nuts but we only cook at home when we know that financially we can’t eat out in any particular week and we buy foods that can be prepared at home.  And, even still, we are talking, spaghetti, sloppy joes, chicken nuggets, french fries, frozen pizza, etc.

I hope to add at least one celebrity fitness guru here (as if I don’t qualify?  I do have a degree in Physical Education).  My goal is to add someone who is currently practicing fitness perfection instead of merely knowing what to do but not necessarily doing it.  And, if I can add a person from the EASports community, I am going to do that as well. 

Plans, dream big is the goal, be healthy is the goal and in reality, size doesn’t matter as long as my arteries aren’t clogged and I can walk up a flight of stairs without passing out.  I am determined and I am hoping that by adding a couple of professionals to the mix, I can get some motivation from them. 

So, keep checking on me, hopefully many big things about to happen….