The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
If you read my recent post about my Maid of Honor, you'll know that for most of our lives she and I have been the same height, same hair color, etc. One thing we used to be was in the same weight class. Only this morning she texted me a picture from this year's Thanksgiving.
Not so much lately. And to my chagrin, most of that I've gained only in the last couple of years. I was never rail thin, but I've been getting a lot lazier and a lot less active. I was never a jock or super interested in fitness, but some of that is just my bad eating habits.
Look, I'm all about body positivity, but I see the couple of purple stretchmarks on my lower abdomen and I don't like what I see. I know I could be much more healthy than I am. In some ways, I blame the Illinois public school system. We are one of only six states who mandate gym class. When I was a teenager, I may not always have been sweating hard, but I was doing something every weekday. I just don't have good habits when I'm the one who has to make my own plans.
But I'm going to. Not just to fit in a white dress, but because sometimes I'm out of breath ascending to our third floor walk-up. Because I can no longer sit on the floor and then get up without my knees cracking a little bit.
The only problem is that I don't know what exactly I plan to do about it. Mr. Wolf has talked about working out together, but during the week we usually have about three hours a day on average where we're both awake and at home. And anyway, I can't lean on him to do it for me.
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| The three of us have a lot of pictures together |
Not so much lately. And to my chagrin, most of that I've gained only in the last couple of years. I was never rail thin, but I've been getting a lot lazier and a lot less active. I was never a jock or super interested in fitness, but some of that is just my bad eating habits.
Look, I'm all about body positivity, but I see the couple of purple stretchmarks on my lower abdomen and I don't like what I see. I know I could be much more healthy than I am. In some ways, I blame the Illinois public school system. We are one of only six states who mandate gym class. When I was a teenager, I may not always have been sweating hard, but I was doing something every weekday. I just don't have good habits when I'm the one who has to make my own plans.
But I'm going to. Not just to fit in a white dress, but because sometimes I'm out of breath ascending to our third floor walk-up. Because I can no longer sit on the floor and then get up without my knees cracking a little bit.
The only problem is that I don't know what exactly I plan to do about it. Mr. Wolf has talked about working out together, but during the week we usually have about three hours a day on average where we're both awake and at home. And anyway, I can't lean on him to do it for me.
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