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| Valentine's Day 2016 |
My weekend was spent reading, cooking, working out, watching Deadpool, filling my car tires with air, shopping, and watching New Girl. Valentine's Day for this girl was well spent. How did I almost forget that I got free Chipotle, too?! It's delicious and can be healthy when choosing the right ingredients.
So, this book was a good read, let me start off with that. Holly is a widow and used food as a comfort for the most of her life, but it became out of control after her husband's death. While on a flight home, she meets Logan, a personal trainer, and ends up being a client of his. Logan is what you call superficial and was only seen "dating" tall, stick thin, blonde model types. Can you see where this is going? Holly starts a training program, loses weight and develops a small crush on Logan. He takes her out of her comfort zone and invites her to a baseball game of one of his client's and befriends her throughout the book, only as a trainer of course.
I really liked this nonfiction choice. Most of the characters were likable, and I was of course rooting for Holly to be healthy and happy. While reading, I could tell where the plot was going and how it would end, but I did enjoy the adventure and experience the improved Holly. What I was not expecting was the graphic descriptions of sexual encounters between characters. I could have done without that because that's not my thing to read, but the author has good writing skills to say the least, haha.
I could have misinterpreted Holly's feelings, but I don't think she was ever losing the weight to gain acceptance from Logan or anything. I truly feel she was doing it all for herself. She needed to be alive again and not sulking in her husband's death. I admire that. She was more so a little lost and upset she didn't fit a "type" Logan was attracted to, but never did she show she was working hard and not complaining while working out to get thin and the man.
Like many women out there, I'm one of many who is concerned about appearances and how a male would or wouldn't like me because of my size. Even though I thought I was losing weight since I added some holiday celebration pounds, I haven't, but I feel like I look better than before. Why is that number still haunting me then? I am healthy; I can run over 2 miles without panting and fainting. Shouldn't that be good enough?
Big Girl Panties was not only an enjoyable, short read, but it also reminded me that it should be about the way I feel and not how a male sees me and if it will be good enough. Also, I questioned how hard I was working on my figure. Am I pushing myself enough? You can't see change if you don't step out of your comfort zone, right?