The Biggest Looser

Last month I got an email encouraging me to join "The Biggest Looser" challenge at work and after careful consideration (of the monetary prizes...) I decided to join.

I have always been plus sized. I remember when I was in 5th grade..most of my school clothes came from the Sears girls *plus* department. Oh how I loathed those sea-foam green tags that screamed PLUS in sparkling white letters that you couldn't miss if you were standing on the other side of the store. I can still smell that faint salty hint of plus sized perspiration some of the polyester pieces accrued from countless porkers squeezing their plump asses into them. So plain, so basic, because god forbid you decorate your heavy child in anything more. As if by being plain no one would notice the girth beneath that full cut polo.

As an adult my choices have expanded greatly. My closets are filled with moderately priced separates that accentuate the good and hide the bad accordingly. In fact, I'd bet $100 that none of my slimmer friends can out dress me with the contents of their closets. And yet....how I long for the ability to not go to the back or the left of a store....the freedom to wear a large..sans the x's. For the first time in my life -I just want to be average.

I did my weigh in and scored some swag at our initial meeting. My strategy this month is to count calories with a daily intake limit..with a 60 min PM workout and at least 30 minutes in the AM....and gallons and gallons of water.

Wish me luck!