Day One: Belly Fat

Well, I suppose this is it. I’m officially a blogger.  Can I just tell you that I’m not really the blogging kind? While I LOVE (repeat: LOVE!) reading other peoples’ blogs, I don’t have the same sense of confidence other people seem to possess that makes them believe people would actually want to read what they write. Good thing for me, if no one ever read this blog, I’m totally okay with it! This is my blog. By me, for me.

This is day ONE of my gratitude project! I plan to write about at least one thing I’m grateful for each day for the next—well--for as long as I can!  I find myself getting bogged down in the “everyday stuff.” What I tend to overlook is that my “everyday” is pretty darn good, and that God has blessed me BEYOND MEASURE.  This blog is to help me look around and see the many ways God has blessed me. I hope that if people do read my blog, they look around and realized the hundreds of ways they are blessed as well.

So, let’s get started!

DAY ONE:

I am SO GRATEFUL for belly fat. Yes, belly fat. You know, the spare tire that hangs around after you’ve had three babies between the ages of 22 and 29. There are a couple of reasons I’m not hating my belly fat right now.

1.       God blessed us with Teensy two months ago. Without the extra weight I gained, Teensy may not be the healthy, gorgeous baby she is!

2.       It’s motivated me to change my lifestyle. I used to have the metabolism of a crack-addict. Until I turned 28. For some reason at 28, my body decided that I no longer needed to wear clothes from the Juniors Department at Macys, and that brownies should not be eaten for breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner.

Because of my ever-slowing metabolism, and the extra baby weight, I’m trying to eat healthy snacks, and make more nutritious meals for my family. We’ll all benefit from my belly fat!

When I look at what I just wrote, my extra “roll” doesn’t seem so bad. Teensy is resting peacefully next to me in her bassinet, healthy, and with rolls of her own, Blondie and Freckles get healthy meals that teach them about a nutritious diet, and The Hubs might be able to stop the trend of diabetes that affects the men in his family. Lucky for all of us that I have a little belly fat!