Healthy You Challenge

This post was nominated because the blogger shares that feeling of not fitting into places that, an experience so many of us can relate to. I know I've written a post or two about it myself.

Her blog is titled Blogging Away The Pounds, I'm gonna kick fat's butt!! and I'm sure you will Trisha!

Her post is called Facing My Fatness

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Facing My Fatness

Well, we're back home now. It was great visiting our family and watching my little girl play with the cousins she doesn't often get to see.

This trip really put me outside of my "comfort zone." (Maybe that's a good thing.) We really don't go that many places. Being fat and tired all the time probably has alot to do with that.

There was lots of eating out in restaurants, and each time I had to worry about booths. It all worked out okay, but I'll be so glad when I don't have to stress about that anymore!

Then there was one sticky moment when my sister-in-law took me to a cute and trendy little shop with narrow aisles and nooks crammed with jewelry and purses and all kinds of lovely things for the home. Not great place to go with your toddler...or if you have a big behind.

After recently reading about a truly horrifying experience in a gift shop on Escape From Obesity, I thought I was going to have my own when my butt brushed up againt a wooden sign and knocked it to the floor. I was mortified when it happened and stood there for a moment...eyes closed, wincing and waiting for more things to come crashing to the floor. Fortunately nothing broke, but the owner who was bustling about seemed alot less friendly after that little incident.

Finally, most of the time I'm used to just seeing myself from the neck up in the mirror above my bathroom sink, so the big mirror with the bright lighting over the sink in the hotel was certainly an eye opening experience. (Note to self: Big t-shirts don't hide anything. They just make you look like a big girl wearing a big shirt.)