30 Week Picture Challenge - Week 17

A picture of something that has made an impact on your life recently

lol I know this is technically clipart, but it was pretty :-)

There's has been a lot of talk about losing weight in my family and even at work.  It seems I'm the only person not on some strange diet.  By no means do I think I am fat, or ugly, or even overweight.  Ok I am overweight but I can proudly say I'm proportioned pretty good.  But I've heard a lot of girls at work who are apart of this Weight Watchers program and have lost a lot of weight and continue to either lose the pounds or maintain the new weight they've reached.

I really got to thinking about myself and my futile attempts at being more healthy and losing weight/shaping up.  It doesn't help I thought about all this over a nacho cheese gordita and tacos.  But a few of my coworkers and I were thinking about joining and talked over all the different options of the program.  It was really just talk at the time because no one knew how to get started or even where to go. 

Then my employer popped up with a new promotion package they have partnered with Weight Watchers and is offering the 17 week weight loss course at a discount with employee program perks.

I really didn't have any excuses anymore.  A great deal had popped up in front of me and was offering me the chance to get my life back in order (food wise that is).  So myself and several of my coworkers have signed up and will start attending meetings in June.  I'm kind of excited, but also a little scared.  It's made me look at myself now and really think about what I really want from it.

I don't want to be 100 pounds.  I'm 154 at 5' 2" right now, which makes me think I can't go much further without going into the anorexic zone.  Frankly, if I could drop one pants size I would be as happy as a clam.  So now I'm re-evaluating what size I really want to be (realistically) and what I have to do to get there.  I'm not going to kill myself to get there because it will not be the end of the world if I don't reach it, but I can at least start walking that way. 

I am, however, totally scared of losing my boobs.  I was a B cup all through my teenage years and it wasn't until my early 20s did I finally hit my spurt and grew into a lovely C cup (and with the help of a push up bra).  Now I know if I lose the weight, the boobs will be the first thing to go :-(

So technically Weight Watchers has not changed my life yet, but it has impacted my life right now in that the opportunity has been brought to me and I am starting to rethink my own health and, sadly, imortality.  By the end of this Picture Challenge I can make an updated post as to how it went.