Kayla Robb

It's the New Year and everywhere you look there are facebook ads, TV commercials and Pinterest posts urging you to loose weight, get in shape and get that perfect six pack. I admit I am over weight. Not in a "I need to loose ten pounds" over weight but in a "I may qualify for gastric surgery". I've been "plus size" my entire life, I've been made fun of, laughed at and bullied because of how much I weight. Over the years I have come to see that no matter what you look like someone out there will not like you. Dita Von Teese put it beautifully when she said "You can be the sweetest peach out there yet there will always be someone who does not like peaches." So this year I set my self up to succeed. I don't want to loose weight so more people will like me. I want to be healthy. I also want to ware cute shoes but that's a little vain so lets just stick with being healthy. So far I have lost almost 10 pounds, which is awesome.

I admit it, I read (or rather mostly read) the first book; Fifty Shades of Grey. I honestly did not like it. It wasn't the poorly visualized sex scenes or even the bad writing, it is was all the hype over it. What I have concluded is that women are so drawn to these books because we want a man to take control. To push us up against the wall and kiss us like you damn well mean it. To be desired, to be craved, to be able to get a man to the edge by just being ourselves. Most of us want a man to open doors, hold our hand and then devour us in the bedroom. What also bothered me is that this type of book is nothing new. Have people forgotten about Romance Novels? People scoffed and made fun of woman in the 90's who went to books signing for Fabio. It was common to see a paperback in every house wife's hand bag. My mother, gran and half sister have been reading Romance Novels for as long as I can remember. I myself have been reading "romance" novels since I was sixt