I finally found my special purpose...as far as working out goes! The trick is to find something that you don't think of as working out...something that you don't hate. I've started swimming, and I noticed that I never refer to it as "working out." I also don't hate it...I...I...actually...like it! And, I'm good at it. I can already swim a mile, no problem, and that's with me not even being in shape. When I'm in the water I can go and go and go, and everything that troubles me just goes away. I'm going to do my first "open water" swim this year, and then I'm going to Alcatraz to do the "Swim around The Rock." They dump you in the ocean and you get to swim around the prison. Pretty cool, huh? Someone asked me if I was afraid of sharks, and I was like, "Hell, no! You think I'm finally going to be skinny and let some shark eat me, just when I start to look good in a swimsuit?...Not a chance!"

You think I'm finally going to be skinny and let some shark eat me, just when I start to look good in a swimsuit?.

Wendy, you always crack me up! (I could use a shark bite here and there, but only if I could take it off my hips and thighs!) That's so cool...we just watched 'The Rock' again the other day- Sean Connery (my first love)/Nicholas Cage film. That must be a pretty long swim! -BG

Wendy's a brave woman, IMHO. I've not yet faced the idea of appearing in public in a swimsuit, for all I joke about bikini's at my age.