"Mom, what is that thing sticking out of your side?!?!"  my son asked in an anxious voice.  I had raised my arms up to reach a book on a high shelf in our classroom, inadvertantly raising my shirt above the top of my pants. 

"That, my dear, is a roll of fat."  Yes, we have reached the muffin top stage & it's not very attractive.

"Oh.  It's kind of weird looking."

"Yes, I know.  That's what happens when you eat too much and don't exercise.  That's one reason why you and your sisters are in a swim program to help you stay at a healthy weight."

And then everyone chimes in simultaneously, "I'm glad I don't have that." 

I was cleared a few weeks ago to really start exercising again, so I guess I'd better get on it.  I'd hate to keep grossing out my children!