I'm 33 years old and I have been what society considers "morbidly obese" now for the majority of my life. I'm that girl who everyone said would be "So beautiful!!! If only..." I'd lose this excess weight, get in shape, blah blah blah...
Despite an active teenage lifestyle - the weight started to accumulate then and has gotten worse since. I started this blog initially as a weight loss blog. A year+ later - I've decided that the skinny ideal of what is considered beautiful is never going to be me. I can either spend my life fighting myself, or I can embrace who I am today. Who I am is pretty damn awesome, even if it doesn't come in a size zero package.
I'm my own kind of beautiful.
Now I am focusing on becoming healthy and happy in the body that I have right now. I hope to be able to inspire those who have also struggled their entire lives trying to fit into an impossibly thin and (in my opinion) unattractive box that our society wants to put us all in. Anyone not willing to get in that box is an outcast and deemed "ugly".
Well... I have always been an out-of-the-box thinker. And I get all panicky in small spaces. So I'm getting out of the damn box!
I am working toward a vegan, cruelty free lifestyle. I'm not there yet, but I'm making progress. I have also discovered - through listening to my body and paying attention to the effects of what goes into it - that I am gluten intolerant. I'm also working toward remaining gluten free.
My hope is that by putting this all out on the internet - telling you the whole story and sharing my honest journey - that I am able to not only help myself but help others.
I may fail, I may stop and start. I may not. But I will continue to post if I do - because that's the point of this blog. I want to be honest and I want to hear my followers' honest feedback.
I may fail, I may stop and start. I may not. But I will continue to post if I do - because that's the point of this blog. I want to be honest and I want to hear my followers' honest feedback.
12/7/2012
Changed again...
8/2/2012
Changed again...
8/2/2012
I am a bit neurotic. Seriously. Thus I have a tough time with certain things - keeping my blog designs the same for extended periods of time being one of them. I like to change things from time to time. I've come to terms with it now - after all, change is a part of life, right? I've embraced my neurotic-ism. I actually kind of like it now :)
Each of these designs have been special to me in their own ways. In homage to my blog designs of the past, and the amazing artists who made them - I bring you, the metamorphosis of a blog design...
Each of these designs have been special to me in their own ways. In homage to my blog designs of the past, and the amazing artists who made them - I bring you, the metamorphosis of a blog design...
The talented Danielle Moss made my pin-up girl into what would be the last Shrink to Fit Blog header design:
I introduced my lovely pinup girl design about a year ago. My pin-up girl was the brain child of the amazing Victoria Rosas of Batzy Rockshop.
And this was my pin-up's very first Blog Header Debut! (and of course I can't find the link to the artist's website right now... I will get that up asap!)
Below was the first custom blog design done for Shrink to Fit. It was made by the amazing Ashley Jackson of Eisy Morgan. This one is my favorite, probably because it was my first.
Also - I started this blog under a fake name. It seemed like a good idea at the time...
Below is the Skinny Dip Feature archives. Hopefully I will do something like this again soon...
