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Hey – I’m Shelly.  I decided to start a separate blog just for this topic because it will be a long process (hopefully not too long).  Please join me!

So…  5 years ago, I was in decent shape, I had started exercising again to get rid of some unwanted friends hanging on to my hips and thighs.  I got to the point where I wanted to lose about 10-15 more pounds.  I felt great.

Then I got pregnant.  WOO HOO!  (at first I was scared – we hadn’t planned this – then I was so excited!)  But I guess my body couldn’t completely handle it.  4 Months into the pregnancy, I woke up one morning with a pain down my leg…  Felt like I had REALLY pulled a groin muscle.  It got worse and worse until I ended up on bed rest.  Turns out my pelvis had separated and twisted.  So I spent 5 + months on the couch. (plus pain last for 8 months after he was born) #justsaying

So while I was on bed rest, I would save up everything I needed to do until I HAD to go to the bathroom…  Then I would get up and cry the whole time… but I would go potty, get more food, drink, whatever I needed to do and then go pass out back on the couch.  My doctor told me that I could take pain medication, but I declined.  Instead, I used cake, ice cream, brownies, my favorite York Peppermint Patties… well you get the idea…  Yummy pain medicine for sure… but it came with a price.  That price was gaining 120 pounds.  oh yes…  120!  My husband thought I was going to explode.

Anyway, after I had my son, the pelvis didn’t just pop back in to place.  He is 4 1/2 right now and I still have twinges every now and then.  I went to physical therapy and to quote the therapist “Your pelvis is jacked up”.  I would have different measurements each time!  SO…  I still don’t have all that weight on, and over the last 4 1/2 years, I have lost some of it and gained some back…  Right now I am 60 pounds over where I would like to be…

I think I can attribute almost every pain and ailment I have at the moment to this extra weight…  and well, if it isn’t the weight… I will go have it checked out, but I want to get the weight out of the equation.  I have started exercising, tried different diets over and over… but I need to put the whole program together…  I need to get it done.  I need help.  I need support.  I need company!

So even if you are at your ideal weight…  can you stand to exercise more?  If you’re not, would you like to be?  I hope I can create a community of people who take this journey with me…

AND for the record… I don’t think sexy = being at a specific weight, looking a certain way, etc.  I think sexy = the way you feel about yourself.  Your confidence.  Your personality.  Like I said in my first post… As I sit here writing this, I think I am sexy, I think I look great… but then I walk in front of a mirror and I gasp!!  I need to get my outer me to look like my inner me!!  Of course, believe me – I know there are people out there who need to get their inner self to match their outer self too!  Anything I can do to help that… I will!

Welcome!  Come in and join the party!