Molly wrote-31 Days to Fit into Your Jeans!

Dropping one size a month until December is the goal. I want to have all the baby weight lost by the time Christmas rolls around so that I will dare to be in the pictures. As opposed to the last many, many years where I appear to not have existed. That's because after the baking and candy and general madness that encompass the months of October, November, and December I am a bloated little piggy. Especially my face (and my stomach). My legs are still long and gorgeous...just kidding...I just always fool myself into thinking my legs are skinny because I am comparing them to my bloated tummy.

Anyway, while vanity is involved in this goal it is not the only motivating factor. Saving money is another reason. I have so many clothes that would fit if I lost weight. I would love to go shopping and buy a new wardrobe but I only have zero dollars in my budget for that (which doesn't seem like enough). So money is a motivating factor. Factor number two, which is actually factor number one, is energy. When I eat right I am practically buzzing with energy. When I don't I am as lethargic as a sloth swimming through honey (while wearing ankle weights). And who has time to not have energy. I have a lot of people that need a lot of things from me (things that I want to give) fun that I want to have, stuff that I want to do. But when I am packing around an extra thirty-forty pounds the fun is harder to have and the stuff is harder to do. Also, I want to be the strong, confident, warm person God created me to be. As opposed to the puffy, self-conscious person I feel like. Puffy is kind of a gross word to me. Sorry.