Always 100% Me
And so begins a tale of three parts... Recently a Facebook friend commented on a #tbt picture of mine how she loved that I always was 100% me no matter what. The picture in question was from several years ago. In it, my daughters and I sported huge grins, coordinating outfits, and were striking a sassy pose. I was also close to 300 pounds in that picture. From the sassy grin on my face, you would have never realized how much it hurt just to walk. 300 pounds? Ok, that is a smidge of an exaggeration. Full disclosure I come from a big Italian family whose love of storytelling, makes the fish always a bit bigger in the retelling than it was in the catching. The truth is it took many years of dedicated effort to get my 5'2 self up to 283.6. Pretty close to 300. How did that happen? Or the question I get asked all the time: you look like a new person, how did you change? The answer lies in three things: knowing myself, accepting myself, and refusing to allow who and what