I’ve never really had ‘abs’ in my life. - My weight has always fluctuated wildly over my life.  Growing up, I was a very “chubby” kid until about the time I started High School  (I was picked-on a lot for it in 7th & 8th grade).

In this first photo (taken in March of 1989), I was 16 years-old, just a few years after losing most of my chubbiness.  

Now I know it may look like I have some Abs, I assure you that it’s simply an “optical-illusion” from the way I was standing/streching… Plus, it was from one of my earliest “Drunken Adventures” of my teen years.

[I would also like to mention how “far ahead of my time” I was, seeing that this was more than a decade before taking “mirror-pics” was a ‘thing’!] 

And now, 22 years later… (at age 38)

This was taken & previously posted this past June, originally for a Tumblr “Bellybutton” meme. (…I swear, the things you people make me do!)

Now that I’m getting close to age 39 (one month from tomorrow!), I’m fairly certain that I’ll never have a “six-pack”, and that’s okay.  I’m mostly healthy, and happy.  As you can see from the 1st-photo meme post earlier, I’ve actually lost some weight over the past year.  - I walk a few miles every single day, I’m eating healthier than I used to, and most-importantly I’m happy with how I look now.  

Plus, I know one more important thing about myself…