BOV and the Gap.

Well my 3 hole punch just came flying off the top of my desk, bound for my face. I just had to defend myself from office supplies. It was intense, I could have died. Ok...maybe not. Maybe that's a slight exaggeration.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand.

BOV is a term that annoys me. Belly over vagina. Ok, I'm technical - your belly will ALWAYS be over your vagina. The vagina is the internal canal in which a child passes through to enter the world, a penis penetrates, and fluids escape. Its a tube in your body. INSIDE. Therefor, anytime you have a slight bloat, you have BOV, hell without a bloat you have BOV. In your face.
So lets call it belly over vulva. Your belly isn't perfectly flat and aligning with your rock hard abs. I will always be the proud owner of some sort of belly. Be it a bit of loose skin or a pudge - I shall rock that gut.
Right now I'm experiencing some reduction in BOV. The boychild pointed it out today. He said "Hey mom, your chubbies are smaller!" why thank you son, you know you started that roll, right? Ok so maybe I could have prevented the whole 80lb weight gain...but I didn't. Anyway, there is a reduction in c-section flap fat. HOORAY!!!

And the gap. I'm talkin about the towel gap. If you're a chubster like I am, you know this gap. You get out of the shower, try to wrap a towel around you and...it doesn't go all the way around. CRAP! Now you have to figure out how to make it out of the bathroom without flashing your entire household. So you upgrade to bath sheets and all is well...until the 2nd child and then BAM - the gap reappears! SO anyway, I've been dealing with gap issues. Today when I got out of the shower, I positioned the towel as I always do to make sure I flashed the most appropriate flesh. Then it hits me. I'm gapless!!!! Now..this is on the big towel, not your standard bath towel, but still!!! That means the BOV really IS getting smaller! My belly was the big gap problem. So that's motivating. Maybe in a few months I can look my regular towels in the eye again. I've been avoiding those towels for a loooong time now - over 2 years. At some point in my pregnancy with the girlkid I got the gap in my big towels and cried and cried - then I realized I was 7m pregnant and measuring 6 weeks ahead so it probably wasn't THAT big of a deal, I was just hugely pregnant. Girl turned out to be 9lbs 2oz at 37 weeks soo....yeah. Anyway I haven't exactly lost anything since then. I've been playing hide and seek with 20lbs the whole time, but that's it. Usually I'm it - but sometimes I can hide from the 20lbs.
I'm hoping to ditch those 20lbs for good now..plus all its dang 20lb family - I hear its a big family. I'm not sayin, I'm just saying.