Hi! I started this blog a couple years ago and then kind of forgot about it. I am back, though, with renewed purpose so this page is to give you a little bit of my background so you know where I'm coming from, and also to tell you why I am writing this blog.
I was born in 1981 and was overweight from the start (well not quite from the start, my brother was actually 5 ounces bigger than my respectable 8 lb. 3.5 oz.) Growing up in the Midwest is like growing up in a time warp--everything is about thirty years behind the big cities on the coasts. My parents, although still friendly, were divorced before I turned 1 but we still did many family things together. Actually, looking back you would never know that they were divorced. Mom took care of us and the house during the day and then went to her house at night. (Her house was the other house my dad owned.)
My brother is three years older and infinitely smarter than I am, my mother has always been talented, and I have just always been. I've always felt that I've never been smart enough, never been talented enough, never been thin enough...I've just never been enough. I'm working on changing my negative self-image into a positive one, and working on thinking that I do deserve to be happy, I do deserve to be loved, and I do deserve to be healthy.
I was born in 1981 and was overweight from the start (well not quite from the start, my brother was actually 5 ounces bigger than my respectable 8 lb. 3.5 oz.) Growing up in the Midwest is like growing up in a time warp--everything is about thirty years behind the big cities on the coasts. My parents, although still friendly, were divorced before I turned 1 but we still did many family things together. Actually, looking back you would never know that they were divorced. Mom took care of us and the house during the day and then went to her house at night. (Her house was the other house my dad owned.)
My brother is three years older and infinitely smarter than I am, my mother has always been talented, and I have just always been. I've always felt that I've never been smart enough, never been talented enough, never been thin enough...I've just never been enough. I'm working on changing my negative self-image into a positive one, and working on thinking that I do deserve to be happy, I do deserve to be loved, and I do deserve to be healthy.
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