didn't think things thru, again

As everyone knows, I was in the test panel for the book Walk Your Butt Off. It was fun. I might have learned a few things.

Then about two weeks ago I got a call from the author to fact-check my information. Excuse me? Yes, I'm actually in the book at several places. With my stats and photo. Yikes! What was I thinking?

Yesterday I got a email from Prevention magazine.  They are printing an excerpting of Walk Your Butt Off in the February issue. The email had questions like: Am I still walking? Am I still doing the program? Have I maintained my weight loss? Yikes! They might want to interview me.  I need to send them my current weight and a photo in workout gear.  Hopefully that scary picture will chase them away.

But think about it. This fat girl in a national health magazine, fat. Would I make a good poster girl for walking my butt off?  I don't think so.

But think of the other ramifications—the internet ones. I have done a fairly good job of keeping my private self, private. I have FB locked down tighter than Fort Knox. I have this blog set to non-searchable. I really don't want to be found. I didn't even give them permission to post the blog address in the book.

Something like this will pull all the haters out of the woodwork. So in February, if the blog disappears, and my FB page goes down, you'll know why.