{"id":5257,"date":"2011-04-26T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/2011\/04\/26\/looks-arent-everything\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T00:40:41","slug":"looks-arent-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/looks-arent-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Aren’t Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m glad I learned this lesson at an early age.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been the beautiful girl that people treated differently because she was just so darn gorgeous. I was friends with those girls, but I was not one of them.<\/p>\n

\"DSCN1137\"<\/a> I\u2019m in the middle \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n

Sound like I\u2019m getting down on myself? I\u2019m not!\u00a0 I\u2019m all about Operation Beautiful<\/a> and loving you for you.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019m ugly.\u00a0 In fact, I think I\u2019m pretty darn cute sometimes.\u00a0 And I\u2019m glad I wasn\u2019t drop dead gorgeous because it allowed me to develop a personality- a sarcastic, silly, fun personality.<\/p>\n

Another reason I\u2019m glad I haven\u2019t had to depend on my looks my whole life? Because looks fade.\u00a0 Beginning when you\u2019re pregnant \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you how crazy it is to see the body that you\u2019ve know your whole life changing in front of your eyes.\u00a0 To know that your boobs are only going to get bigger and your belly grow larger in the coming months.<\/p>\n

\"almost<\/a><\/p>\n

It makes getting dressed frustrating because I knew how to dress my old body- accentuate my waist, downplay hips and thighs.\u00a0 But now, my waist is gone.\u00a0 What do I accentuate?!<\/p>\n

\"almost<\/a><\/p>\n

I also know I\u2019m only halfway there.\u00a0 And I\u2019m only 5\u20191\u201d.\u00a0 And that I probably won\u2019t recognize myself in August.<\/p>\n

As someone that is so passionate about taking care of myself and staying fit, I\u2019m really working on focusing on health.\u00a0 Normally I can tell if I\u2019m on track.\u00a0 Eating right, drinking lots of water and exercising leads to a a tighter figure, longer endurance and a feeling of strength.\u00a0 Now when I exercise I get an achy back and exhausted.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s amazing how I never saw myself as thin, but looking back at pictures from only a few months ago, I\u2019m amazed at how flat my \u201cnot flat\u201d tummy was.<\/p>\n

\"6<\/a> 6 weeks pregnant<\/em><\/p>\n

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But then in the evening, I\u2019ll lay down on the couch and watch my belly.\u00a0 I\u2019ll see my stomach pop up suddenly, with one swift punch or kick from our baby that I\u2019m growing.\u00a0 And I giggle.\u00a0 Which makes my boobs and belly jiggle.\u00a0 And I giggle harder.<\/p>\n

Because looks aren\u2019t everything.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so grateful to have the opportunity to grow a life that is half me and half Hubbs.\u00a0 I\u2019m so grateful that I\u2019ve had such a healthy, and relatively easy pregnancy.<\/p>\n

In fact, Baby D just woke up and is wiggling again.\u00a0 And despite the fact that I\u2019m living in yoga pants because none of my clothes fit, I\u2019ll be smiling all day and dreaming of what this little life inside of me will grow up to be.<\/p>\n

\u2026because looks aren\u2019t everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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