Easy way to weight-loss

So, as my sister's wedding is now looming in the near future (as opposed to that far-far away deadline to lose those pounds that found their way to me in college), I have decided to enlist help to get into shape. I pay for my new friend to tell me I'm out of shape, look like a wimp, cry like a girl, and complain too much. Lucky me.

While on the path to weight-loss and his promise to a "sleek physique", I imagined a routine that would make scaling a mountain seem easy. I was actually excited to get a list of 800 activities that will make my little biceps look like those of the people whose informercials I've bought in the past. SO EXCITED!

As it turns out, my weight-loss strategy will be a little less intense. Such as, not intense at all: the key for my success is to......... suspense!

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Stand up straight. Yep, that is the diagnosis. I have spent so many years with bad posture, that I have reckoned my body to almost uselessness. I am so crooked that I can't use the gym! As my trainer explained, around 12 years old, girls start to get weird and hunch over and lose the good posture of their pubescent years. (Of COURSE we did, that's because the guys were a foot shorter than us and we wanted to flirt with eyeballs, not the top their heads!) Anyway, I guess I fell into that trap so here I am, 10 years later trying to reconcile those futile attempts at 7th grade flirtation. 

It has been weird these past few days to live up to my full height potential. I find that people look at me more, take what I have to say more seriously, and that at night, my back doesn't hurt! I bet it will get even better when I start practicing my new "moves" at the gym-whoops. As this happens, I also hope to become more aware of other "hunches" in my life, and where I can stand up straighter, taller, and be more proud of who I am.

Test to see if you are standing up straight.

1. Stand normally- No, you are not straight.

2. Suck in the tummy, tuck the tailbone, lift the head. Nope, still not straight.

3. Repeat step 2- Nope, one more time.

4. Repeat step 2 and actually stay there!

5. It took me 4 tries to actually "get" straight. Hope you fare better!