{"id":15211,"date":"2017-01-17T14:17:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momservations.com\/?p=15211"},"modified":"2017-01-17T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:17:06","slug":"accepting-the-fruit-we-are-destined-to-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/17\/accepting-the-fruit-we-are-destined-to-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting the Fruit We Are Destined to Become"},"content":{"rendered":"

Momservation: <\/strong>I may be a soft and bruised pear\u2014but everyone knows those are the best ones.<\/p>\n

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Deep down I always knew I was a pear.<\/p>\n

I guess I was glad I wasn\u2019t an apple or banana, and I would\u2019ve preferred strawberry, but by the end of my senior year of high school it was apparent I wasn\u2019t going to sprout any more up top to change my fate.<\/p>\n

Sure, I was able to deny my destiny for a while. As a competitive track athlete my taught muscles and zero body fat were able to disguise the disproportion as a teen.<\/p>\n

Winning Best Tight End my senior year (and probably my fabulous feathered hair) also helped distract from the fact that due to family genetics I was doomed to be bottom heavy.<\/p>\n

But after quitting the track team in college and subsisting on mac n cheese, Top Ramen and Keystone (Light, though!) while spending more time at Greek mixers than the gym, my fruity side started to show.<\/p>\n

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Desperate to fight my fate I began a 20 year battle to keep my outer pear at bay by tapping into my inner determination. I would still have my Ranch dressing, chili cheese fries and Oreo binges, but I would run, swim, or bike (and sometimes all three by taking up triathlons) to trick my body into being something outside the fruit bowl. (Except for my two pregnancies where I just gave into being an apple for the good of the babies. And Neapolitan shakes.)<\/p>\n

But now, as I am solidly in my forties, staring perimenopause right in the hot flashes, my metabolism both figuratively and literally out to lunch (who can say \u201cno\u201d to The Habit?), I am too tired to fight it anymore.<\/p>\n

No amount of gym time, running, biking, swimming, or crunches can remove the koozie from around my six-pack abs that I know are in there somewhere. Instead I have chosen to accept my destiny:<\/p>\n

I am a pear. And not even a firm, luscious one anymore. I am a soft, bruised, ripe pear with a side of cottage cheese thighs.<\/p>\n

But rather than be down about my place in the fruit salad bowl of life, I have reframed how I will look at the 46 year-old pear-shaped body I can no longer deny.<\/p>\n

Thanks to my active lifestyle and portion control (except with Oreos and Ranch dressing) I\u2019m delicious and killing it in the Over 40 Pears (Non-Plastic Surgery Division)!<\/p>\n

So join me you forty-something apples, you bananas, strawberries and pears! Join me in rising up and accepting the fruit we are destined to become!<\/p>\n

And then let\u2019s all throw marshmallows at those smug hour-glasses.<\/p>\n

#PerfectPear #OwnIt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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