A wrap up of my Asian holiday and a new attitude!

[Guest guest]

(Cross-post)

Good evening everyone! Happy New Year. I hope this finds everyone

healthy and happy! Emphasis on the word HAPPY! I wanted to expand on

what I started saying this morning.

I am home after a month in Asia. I toured Tokyo, Kyoto, and other

Japanese cities and visited Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau and

Taipei, Taiwan. What an incredible holiday in so many ways. The

scenery, the family bonding and the new found love of my body.

The year 2005 begins the countdown to my 50th birthday and a new

attitude! It's hard to believe that just little more than a year ago

I was facing grave disability and even death from my morbid obesity.

I am not thin as I would like. However, I am still taking personal

responsibility for my health and physical transformation. I

appreciate that I am normal sized and relatively healthy. My body

does sag, hang and droop in certain places. However, I don't intend

to live with all of my excess skin forever. When my doctors tell me

I am physically stable to undergo my plastics then I will go under

the knife. Until that time,I will not obsess with having a perfect

body. Nor am I obsessed with perfection or turning back the clock. I

look forward to the new challenges and smilestones ahead in my life

with my newly healthy and mobile body.

In fact, I love my body for what it is. Healthy and active. My new

body moves like a gazelle even as it nears 50 years old! I climbed

268 steps to reach the pinnacle of the world's giant Buddah on

Lantau Island in China. I never even broke a sweat! I was able to

stand on my feet for hours and walk for miles. I love my new body

because it keeps me upright and headed in a better place everyday!

I am not perfection personified but I am still standing despite the

physical abuse I inflicted upon my body for the last two (2) decades

and not bedridden from the weight of morbid obesity. When the right

time comes I will nip and tuck my excess skin. In the meantime I am

enjoying life to the fullest!

For the first time in decades I actually enjoyed being photographed

and I smiled broadly in all of my photos. I have much to grin about

in my life. I made so many new friends during my travels. They

invited me into their homes and back for visits. Men paid attention

to me. People smiled at me. I enjoyed the night life. I danced in

public! I laughed! I held my head up high! I had FUN!!!

I wish the same joy for all of you!

My best,

Robyn