Several years ago my brother, my sister Katie, and
I were going to spend the day at our local water park Roaring Springs. Katie was worried about wearing her swimsuit
in public. My brother gave her some very
wise words that I still use to this day,
“You
won’t be the fattest person at the pool.”
Ain’t that the truth!
I thought about this when I took my nieces to the
YMCA to swim last week. I also had to
give myself a pep talk when I took my first water aerobics class.
I have been in a bathing suit several times since
I lost my weight. Despite losing 130
pounds and keeping almost all if it off for just about five years, I don’t have
a perfect body. There is a lot of excess
around my legs and arms. To others at
the pool, the beach, etc I am sure I don’t look really fantastic in my
swimsuit. But I don’t care.
I feel okay wearing my swimsuit in public. I strut around with as much confidence I can
muster because I know what I used to look like before I joined WW. While I am in NO WAY ever going to be signing
up to strut my stuff on stage at a Miss America contest, I am also not the
fattest person at the pool.
In just a little over a week, I’ll be wearing my
swimsuit on the sunny beaches of Hawaii with not a single care in the world
other than sunscreen!
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