Pretty in Pearls

Happy Saturday Readers!!! Today I want to talk about SELF love. If you know me now you would NEVER know I struggled with self love growing up! Today I am told I am a diva, I am confident, and some may even say boojie. Lol...I promise if you get to know me you will see so much more; judging me by just looking at me is really your loss. I am going to be verrrry honest with you  about the old Lashonda....and I am going to be verrry honest with you later about the new Lashonda. As a young girl I was tiny, with big boobs (way bigger than anyone else my age), exotropia (when 1 or both eyes turn outward), and darker skin than everyone else. At that age I had no idea how beautiful I was and didn't even know where to start in learning how to love myself. I never let it show but my confidence and my self-esteem was pretty low; I compared myself to EVERYONE ELSE! Mistake #1! I can say I never struggled to have or make friends...popularity was never an issue for me. I had and still have

So, this means I am off to a good start…twice in one week. Haha! So, the last blog post was a cliffhanger, right? LOL It gave you just enough for me to decide what’s next. After writing that post I thought, “where do I go from here?” But I figured it out…so here goes!   All of my 28 years, 10 months and 25 days I have felt and probably been bigger than the average person or what society says is “normal”. My weight fluctuates often I have been a size 5 and I have been a size 16. At this point in my life I am the biggest I have ever been. If you have seen me lately then you know I am a little “THICKUMS” LOL. Over the last year I have told myself “start getting in shape, workout more, eat less, eat better, yadda yadda yadda.” I have started diets and stopped them no sooner than 1 week into it. I have said it ALL but the motivation wasn’t there. Losing weight didn’t become my reality until maybe a month ago when my NP looked at me and said “You need to lose 5

Hey readers! First I want to apologize! I haven't typed a blog in a while and I really have no excuse. I have been working, I have been living, I have been lazy, and I have had some major life changing events.  One of my best friends sent me a text message today and said "Hey what happened to your blogs? I really enjoyed those." It hit me that I was really on to something here....not only do people enjoy reading my blogs but they also get something from it. I realized that I get something from them as well. I get to share my stories and my knowledge with people that really care; if you didn't care you wouldn't read, right?  As I logged on today I noticed that my page has only 10 blogs but well over 1,000 views...that's pretty awesome to me because I didn't think anyone would read. LOL I have so much I want to share including a little piece of my REALITY!  Only a handful of people know about the journey I have started in my life and what trig