Mirror, Mirror....

My "surprise" Christmas present was sitting in our driveway one day before Christmas when I got home from work.  I called Brad to tell him a package had arrived and he said, "don't look at it!"  I hated to tell him, but I had to...that it said FRAGILE, JEWELRY BOX in really large lettering on the side....I could have seen it from the road :)  It was a jewelry box behind a full length mirror.....so I will have plenty-O room to add more jewelry to it.....ha!  We've never had a full length mirror in our room, so I always had to run upstairs to one of the girl's bedrooms if I wanted to see my whole ensemble.  The week after Christmas he assembled it and attached it to a wall in our room and I stepped in front of the mirror and was quite satisfied with what I saw.....the mirror is TOTALLY a skinny mirror....I promise you it takes at least twenty pounds off me and makes me look taller.  Every day now I laugh when I look in it....it's like those fun mirrors at the carnival, only I am the short and distorted object....HAHA!  Kidding....no I'm not, but I can laugh at that so don't worry about my feelings.

I told Brad I am not sure if this mirror is encouraging me toward my weight loss goals.  On one hand, I don't get the exercise of running upstairs every time I want to look in a mirror and it LIES to me every day....But, on the other hand, it does show me what I could look like if I keep working hard.  I really don't like exercise and I love all kinds of food so I have to be so disciplined....yuck.  My latest exercise regiment is to challenge every member of my family to one Wii dance-off competition a few times a week.  I can be motivated by competition, so that seems to be working well for me and it is quality time spent with the fam...so, double bonus!

Since the skinny mirror lies to me, I really had no idea that what I have been doing is paying off....but, at church this weekend an older gentleman asked me if I have been really sick lately.  I thought, "do I look that horrible today?"....then, he proceeded to tell me he just wondered because it looked like I had lost some weight. His comments didn't seem to start out as a compliment, but I am learning you should really just take what you can get.

I'm just working toward the day when the skinny mirror starts telling me the truth :)