About Mama Bear

Hiya! Welcome! I'm the Mama Bear - a middle-aged, single (divorced) mother to one Cub who will graduate from high school very soon, leaving me alone for the first time in my whole entire life. 

Gotta say, I'm kind of excited about that.

I'm also dealing with a cancer that will never leave me (how lucky am I?!), some situational depression that rears its ugly head periodically (wheee!) and a non-existent love life. Oh, and did I mention that I'm fat? I am. Not 'can't-get-out-of-bed' fat (yet), but 'my-butt's-on-its-way-to-needing-its-own-zip-code' sort of fat. 

And I want to change it. All of it. I really do. I want to reinvent myself, starting now - May 2017. 

Now, life is not all fat and depressed and cancer-ridden. It's not. I have lots of great stuff to be thankful for. I have the most amazing friends; I have a job I love (though it would be nice if it paid more) and a couple of hobbies that keep me busy; I live in a pretty little town in a pretty big state; my Cub is kind of amazing and very cool and is going to move mountains one day; I have adorable furry (non-bear) housemates; I also have a great sense of humor, a penchant for looking for the silver lining, and a generally positive outlook.

Generally.

I don't want to change any of those things. But I want to appreciate them more. I want to appreciate life more. I want to appreciate myself more. I want to feel healthy and happy. And I want to get thinner. A lot thinner. I'll be talking about that a whole lot here. A whole lot.

This is going to be a journey, this reinvention of Mama Bear. And though I'm doing this purely for myself (because I think writing about it will help), I'd love it if you'd join me on my journey from fat and frumpy to fit and fabulous! Comment, lurk, pop in every once in a while... whatever floats your boat. I'm happy you're here!