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Me, now. |
So when I started this blog about 20 years ago it was a way to share my journey becoming a parent. I now have a 20 year old heading to university and a 15 year old in high school. Although I am far from done with parenting. (In fact it has got more complicated and confusing really.) I have also done this absolutely awful thing called aging. In a short 6 months from now I will be 48 years old. That is basically 50. WTF? How is that even real? Over the last 3 years I have stepped it up. I have lost 50 pounds, I have been consistently going to the gym 5 days a week and even started lifting weights 3 times a week. Despite all that hard work (and let me tell you it is really really hard work) I still managed to age. Grey hair, wrinkles around my eyes, and the worst of all was entering the horrible hell that is perimenopause.
And to say I was not prepared for this is a huge understatement. (shout out New Found Glory) First off I haven't been having those typical sitcom symptoms. When you think of women going through menopause you think of...
- hot flashes
- ridiculously low sex drive (complete opposite)
- mood swings (okay maybe I have this one)
- no periods
- your children would be so much better without you
- your husband never loved you and settled for this awful life
- no one in your life has ever liked you.
- you are ugly, fat and no one would ever want you physically