Mother of Flubber...YIKES!

I am one week away from my "elimination" date from my job of 20+ years. I am on a quest to improve my mind, spiritual relationship and dare I saw...body! Which comes to my next problem.

The other day, my three-year-old grandson said to me, "Nana you have a big belly, you are going to have a baby." After my initial shock, I decided he was just fascinated with the fact that is Momma is having a baby in a couple of months. However, after a thorough assessment of the situation, I have discovered to my horror, that I have developed a "Budda belly". Now I knew I was not as svelte as I was in my 30's, but I was perplexed at the figure looking back at me in a full-length mirror.

I have had a relatively sedentary job for the past 20 years, but I am not a total sloth either. I golf about three times a week, I rarely eat sweets and I don't snack on chips, etc. So, how did I get to this point? I chalk it up to hormones and slow metabolism. At least, that is my excuse and I am sticking with it.

Now comes the mosted hated word in the English language...EXERCISE! I shutter at the thought. I have belonged to different work-out centers over the years and I have never stuck with it. I would start out all "gung-ho" and then in a matter of a couple of weeks, my enthusiasm would dwindle and I would quit going. I absolutely hate to "work-out". Oh, I admire the slim, firm, younger women who "claim" to absolutely luvvvvv to exercise, but I am not buying it for a minute. There is just something un-natural about anyone that says they "love to work-out".

Therefore, I have decided to perhaps walk a little bit more, but I will not submit myself to a "regimen". I am 51 freakin' years old and I want to enjoy what time I have left. So, I refuse to allow myself to feel less than, or in my case "more than". I am determined to like myself for just who I am and work with what I have.

Sure being heathy is important...and my other many weaknesses will surely come to light, if I am given the opportunity long enough to continue expressing myself, but those topics will be for another time. So, for now anyway... learn to love yourself for where you are at in life and work on the things YOU chose to and don't let anyone make you feel unworthy or "more than", but simply...JUST RIGHT!