"over 40"...show of hands?

[Crankin]

Lisa, your dress in picture #1 made me laugh. That's what I started wearing in my mid forties when, all of a sudden, I started gaining weight. This happened after being VERY skinny and then just normal thin since I was about 25. Those dresses were very popular "elementary school teacher" dresses in the mid to late nineties. I weighed more than I did when I was pregnant with Scott, and pretty close to my weight when I was pregnant with Josh. My friends told me it was "normal" and I think they were secretly happy I was now like them.
Then, in 1996 I went to a Bat Mitzvah in AZ, where all my former friends were wearing slinky black dresses and i was wearing a long (very nice) velvet empire waist dress from JJill that made me look like a whale. They must have wondered what happened to the 100 pound aerobics instructor. It took me another couple of years to start cycling (Fall 2000) but I immediately started to up my exercise and lose weight. The cycling did the rest, without even trying.