As a mother of daughters and a fairly ardent feminist, I strongly oppose the media's pressure on women to strive for unrealistic and unhealthy body images. Soooo, I have to say that I am not embarking on this Biggest Loser challenge to become a certain size or reach a certain weight. My main goal is to become stronger, fitter, and healthier and weight loss may or may not be a byproduct for me. I am hoping to reshape my body, for the sole purpose of unabashed vanity, I'll admit.
The truth is this. I have weighed within 5-10 pounds of my current weight since junior high (pregnancy and Sophomore year excepted.) That means a few things: I felt overweight as a teen, I have been blessed with consistency (thank you genetics!), and I have never really pushed myself in terms of exercise and nutrition. I have always had, in the back of my mind, a nagging wonder about what I could be if I really tried. And sometimes that nagging is actually vocalized by little brother, who is fit and trim and good looking, blah blah blah. So, for the next few weeks, I'm really going to try and we'll see what happens.
Dan's reasons are a little different and yours will be too. But, like I mentioned earlier, we all have a reason. And now is our time!
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Nice! I guess I'm the fat one of the two of us and we're really doing this for me. Thanks for taking the bull by the horns and making this happen.
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Yes Dan it is true, we all seceretly got together and we decided that instead of a intervention we would simply create a blog and have our own biggest looser competition. I must admit, you are brilliant to figure it all out so quickly. Ha, Ha!!
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