Girl in Progress

"You are prone to being chubby".  A dance teacher told me this once.   I never paid attention to my weight; my parents didn't either. Nobody ever told me there was something wrong with my belly.  My grandma encouraged a second helping of pasta, and even a third.  I was completely ignorant until I started dancing.  That was the first time I ever heard that I was fat or that there was something wrong with not being tiny.   I love food, and as I stopped dancing and got a bit older, I started gaining.  I got married at about 155 pounds, and after my first baby I was 169.  My weight climbed to 186, before I got my booty in check and started working out five times per week.  Then, I got pregnant again, and the day I gave birth I was 203 pounds.  In this vain pursuit of skinniness I forgot about the most important and irreplaceable thing in this world: health.  And so, I finally decided to stop lusting after being thin, and instead focus on being healthy.  Giving my body the fuel it needs to have energy, play with my kids, run around.  And guess what, today I was 151 pounds.  I guess if you really want to find something, you have to stop looking for it.  At the heart of it, I am still a work in progress, and I will forever be a work in progress because that dance teacher was right.  There will definitely be days when I eat a piece of cake, but I am learning to give myself what my body really needs.  And feeling good in my skin is a pretty great feeling too!

Welcome!

Welcome to Chasing Happy!  I am just a 28 year old girl married to a boy (R) I have known since I was 17.  Yep, we were practically babies!  And now we have two babies of our own!  Our little lady, M, is four years old.  Little dude, S, is six months.  We have recently started a journey to getting healthy and maybe, hopefully skinny along the way.  I finally finished my MBA, and realized that sitting in a cubicle all day kinda stinks.  So, now we are also trying to embark on an entrepreneurial adventure.  The blog is called Chasing Happy because it is my story of finding happiness in this crazy world!