Ok I know, I need to blog more often. Really, I need to clean my craft room so that I can blog during theday and not worry my 2 yr old will get into my stuff! But I'm catching up on blogs now!
Yes, we need to change our focus. I'm so sick of seeing skinny supermodels, actresses who had a baby yesterday, and well skinny chicks on 99% of the magazines out there! I'm sure it's one of the reasons a lot of us have weight issues. We want to look like "them"! So then we beat ourselves up about our weight and how ugly we are and blah blah blah! I'm sick of it! I'm not saying we should have more fat people on the covers or that we shouldn't care how we look or how much we weight. However, I'm tired of feeling like it's all people focus on! This should not be the focus of our lives. Instead of saying "you need to lose weight, you're fat" we should be saying, "here's how to eat healthy and get in shape." I'm pretty sure it would be well received and I think it would really help in the self esteem area. Us overweight people wouldn't feel like complete losers or ugly, or depressed, or whatever else people feel.
I hate clothes shopping. I use to really enjoy it! That was back when I could literally put anything on and not worry about how "big" it was. Did I look fat or not. I was 100 lbs soaking wet! I was very skinny! Too skinny really. But then around 20 yrs old, I started to put on weight. And actually, had I taken control then, I would have been healthy. Fast forward 9 years and two kids later and now I need to lose 40 lbs...oh freaking joy! And really, I should lose it but I don't want that to be my focus. It shouldn't be anyone's focus cause we usually fail, over and over and over. What we need to focus on is eating right and exercising. Changing our lifestyle so we are more active in how we want to live our lives. And by doing that, then we will more then likely lose the weight.
So, while I know I need to lose weight, my goal is that I will have a better eating habit and exercise routine in place so that by my 30th birthday, I can feel confident, beautiful, amazing. Not fat, ugly and depressed. And the way that's going to happen is eating right and exercising! And I will focus on that and accomplish it! Yes I might falter and struggle but I have a good support system that will help me and even join me! And really, I do have God on my side to help me through this as well!
1 comment:
I understand your frustration. My husband just told me that he wanted to take me shopping to buy a new dress and I said no because I still need to lose 45 pounds to be able to fit my old clothes. It's hard on us isn't it?
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