all good

i am feeling really good lately, and i might even try to say that i am almost back to my normal pre-hypothyroid self. 2 months ago my doctor upped my meds to 100mcg, and slowly over the past few weeks things are all good. We can probably factor in our warmer/sunnier weather into the equation, but what ever it may be, i am more me than i have been in the past year. more energy and i have finally started to lose the baby weight that i put on with my pregnancy with esme.
through out the past year, i have tried to refrain from talking about my few extra inches outloud, simply because i am the mother of 2 little impressionable girls. 2 beautiful girls that i do not want to grow up with body image issues, 2 little girls that i try to insulate as much as possible from the media that makes one think that thin is healthy. It is a tough job, and i am constantly keeping an eye open and my ears tuned to it all. luckily thanks to DVDs and the DVR, we can skip many commercials, but i know people say things that the girls wonder about daily. Last fall Ruby said something about "eating makes you fat" which she heard from a friend of hers. Sadly that 3 year old is getting that message at home. Other girls have said things like "lose weight" and "on a diet" because their mothers go to Weight Watchers. Sure we must keep an eye on childhood obesity, but lets face it, thin does not mean healthy or fit. In our house we try to talk about healthy and fit as opposed to fat and skinny. An anorexic might be thin, but is that healthy? could they run 100 yards or ride a bike to school? Probably not.