Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned……...
Everything I ever needed to know, I learned at Boot Camp.......... When I was 38 and then again when I was 39, I had a plan. Sort of a plan. A plan that resided inside my head and was known only to me. A plan to get fit by the time I was 40. A plan that I acted out in no way, and told no one about. Thirty-eight came and went, and so did thirty-nine and then I found myself kind of fat and 40. Not only fat and 40; fat, forty and gaining. I had been holding steady at my post baby weight for quite some time, until the winter months of 2010-2011, when the scale began creeping frighteningly upward. Now, fat is a relative term, and subject of much debate in our culture, so I am going to say fat for me. My whole life I was "skinny". It was part of my identity. That skinny girl with the blond hair…..that was me. I used to hate being called skinny, until I saw myself as fat. That seemed much worse. Clothes didn't fit like I wanted, I couldn't do all the thi