About me. These things always tend to make me a bit nervous. What am I supposed to say here? Am I supposed to just toot my own horn? Tell you about my life? Show you pictures?

How about all three?

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This is me. I’m Whit.

I like to run. I ran a marathon. I also love yoga. I’m not very good at that, though. I love my family. They are pretty much the bomb. I love Jesus. He is the bomb too.

I grew up in Charlotte, NC. Never left, but I might one day. Who knows? My mom [Mama D] homeschooled me and my four [yes four] sisters [yes girls, all girls]. Despite all odds, we grew up relatively well adjusted and normal [depending upon your idea of normal].

Playing outside and riding our horses took up most of our time, and I never worried about weight or honestly, what I even looked like. I had a great childhood. Good food [Mama D can COOK!], a great family that loved me and well, good food.

When I graduated high school and started my first job [yeah, I didn’t go to college either. But I’m doing ok…] I quickly realized that sedentary = weight gain and I gained weight. Not so quickly, but I gained it.

I remember one day waking up and just being UNHAPPY with myself, my looks and my lack of self motivation. Thus began my journey with weight loss and self image struggles.

I yo-yoed for a few years, losing 10 lbs here and gaining it back over there, but the thing that bothers me most looking back at that time, is that I NEVER FELT GOOD ABOUT MYSELF.

I started this blog to help me lose weight YET AGAIN, in March 2009.

Lose weight I did. Then I trained for, and ran, a marathon. And I gained all the weight back.

I know. CUH-RAHZY.

But that’s not what this blog is about anymore. It’s about loving yourself how you are, where you are, and whatever weight you are at. I’ve said: We can’t all be 120 lbs all the time, and we can’t. We can just be OURSELVES all the time, and we’ve gotta love it, no matter what. Because if we don’t who will?

Among my daily eats, you can find witty remarks, fun links, musings about my faith and yeah, some fitness talk. Because I still love all that stuff too.

So yeah. That’s me. And this is my journey. I’m trying to find my best SELF. No matter what weight I am.