Now that my son is out of school for the summer, it
is swimming season! The ninety-plus heat sent he and I to the pool last week. As predicted, no one seemed to take note of my saggy skin
when I went to the pool. Of course, I did take note of others!
I saw several rather large women there. I could have made two or three swimsuits for myself out of their suits. Were they there so they could soak in the water to keep cool? (Fat adds a layer of insulation as I well know!) They certainly weren’t there to exercise. If they were not laying in a lounge chair they were laying on a air-mattress and hanging on to the edge of the pool so they didn’t move around when the breezes blew. I wanted to go up to each one and say “I used to be like you.” Then I would offer help and ‘save’ them from themselves. What gives ME that right? No one ever said such things to me, except for my parents as they were trying to save me from being overweight.
I saw several rather large women there. I could have made two or three swimsuits for myself out of their suits. Were they there so they could soak in the water to keep cool? (Fat adds a layer of insulation as I well know!) They certainly weren’t there to exercise. If they were not laying in a lounge chair they were laying on a air-mattress and hanging on to the edge of the pool so they didn’t move around when the breezes blew. I wanted to go up to each one and say “I used to be like you.” Then I would offer help and ‘save’ them from themselves. What gives ME that right? No one ever said such things to me, except for my parents as they were trying to save me from being overweight.
Instead of saving the world, I exercised with the
floatation dumbbells that I found at the thrift store last fall. I did that for
about half an hour. The second half-hour I played with my son. Remember, he is
almost as tall as me. We played like little kids, with full abandon. We both
had these pump-action water guns and were chasing each other around the pool,
trying to soak each other even more. I felt so young again. I felt like my son
and I were bonding and will remember this moment as he goes into his teenage
years and all the drama that will come from that!
Weight loss: I was shocked to find I had gone down
four pounds from the week before. Today I was back up by two. I am content to
just be in the 180’s now. I haven't been tracking my food. I am happy with how things are going. For now, this is all good enough for me.
I am reading Secrets of a Former Fat Girl and hope to have a book review soon.
I've been working on this post for over a week now! Instead of trying to achieve perfection in blog posting, I am going to call this quits for today and get it published.
Hope you are having a great beginning to your summer season! Walk-on...even if in a pool!
1 comment:
Love that instead of directly telling these poor women at the pool that they had other options, you showed them! If pictures are worth 1,000 words, I think actions must be worth a million.
--Crabby, signed in under wrong i.d.
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