Skinny people have all the fun

Yesterday we went to the SEE Science Center with the boys. It was a great museum! They have an exhibit called the moon walk. As you can see in the picture above, the kids wear a vest with straps, and it's attached to a pulley system that recreates the feeling of less gravity. They say if you can jump one foot in the air on earth, you could jump 6 feet on the moon!

The machine allows the kids to jump, and they jump way up high! So fun! There is a maximum weight limit, however, set at 70 lbs. That's not very much weight. They actually weigh all of the kids before letting them use the moon walk. Lots of kids were turned away, and many of them were older, but some of them were just bigger for their age. I also some some children step out of line, as soon as they heard they were going to be weighed. That would have been me as a kid.

I wasn't fat - I was an active kid, but I was certainly on the husky side. I've always had a big frame, and I was much bigger than my skinny little friends when we were growing up. I remembered hearing that the Ground Round would charge parents their kid's weight for their dinner, and I was horrified at that thought. I knew I weighed more than other kids my age, and I knew that wasn't a good thing.

All the little skinny kids didn't think twice about standing in line and getting weighed in front of a crowd. Then they got to do the cool moon walk after, which the bigger kids couldn't. I felt a little bit bad for them, and hence today's topic: skinny people have all the fun.

There were so many things I skipped out on when I was bigger. Some things because I didn't have a choice, and other things because I didn't want to put myself in a spot where I may be embarrassed. When I decided to have weight loss surgery, I started to get over those hang ups, even though I hadn't lost any weight. We moved to the water last year, and before, I never would have gone on boats because I would have worried I was too fat.

I was huge last summer, but for some reason, since I knew I was taking care of it, I started getting over it before I even started losing it. So many of us let our weight and body image issues hold us back from doing things we enjoy, and it's not necessary. If you don't like your weight, try to fix it, but in the mean time, LIVE.

This is not a dress rehearsal, so make it count!