About the “Bikini Birthday”

I have a mental list of things that I want to do in life before I die. I’ll admit that most of them are the standard “must-do’s”– see certain parts of the world, read certain books, do a headstand, etc. — but there is one that I always put on the bottom of my list as the least likely thing I’ll ever carry out (least likely, even, than climbing Kilimanjaro or becoming a household name). That is: to wear a bikini.

The problem is in the fact that I don’t just want to wear a bikini. I want to look good great in a bikini.

So, here I am an insecure, perpetually chubby blogger with a body image complex and a lofty goal: to don a bikini by my 25th birthday. I have 6 months to get in shape physically and to get myself mentally prepared (yes, I know how stupid that sounds). I intend to use this blog to track my progress, but primarily to inform people of what I’m doing so that when July 27th rolls around I absolutely can’t chicken out.