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The relationship I have with my body is awful. I feel fat and unattractive all the time. What I will do for fun today is play in the rain. It has been storming for two days and I want to splash in the puddles today.
Thank you for this video, lots of stuff to think about. My relationship with my body has gotten very complicated, I feel like I’m doing things right with meal planning and working out, but I can’t lose the weight. Even though I know skinny isn’t the only pretty, and thin doesn’t equal healthy, I just want some of this extra weight to come off.
I’m home sick today (blah) but I’m going to read for fun. I get so upset that I don’t spend as much time reading an actual book and, silver lining of being sick, I’m going to have plenty of time.
Hi Sarah,
The number one struggle with my body has been keeping the weight off. The times in my life that I have been the healthiest have been when I would run 5 miles a day on an eliptical machine. However, it seems impossible for me to keep this up and once I gain weight it is harder than ever to get back to being able to do it again. Also, stress makes me eat and even when I stop eating by using so called “will power”I can’t seem to lose weight when I am stressed. I just feel so tired all of the time and want to feel better.
For fun I will dance. Also, later this week my daughter and I have a date to go paddle boarding. I almost tried to talk her into taking a friend because I feel embarrassed to go because of my body issues. Your video made me change my mind. Thank you, thank you, thank you…I can’t say it enough!
Andrea
My body struggles seem long and unending! Your video speaks to my very core. My number one struggle with my body is getting to a happy place/relationship with it and the short lived nature of such a thing. I always struggleto get back there and hide hoping I can make it happen.
Today I am cleaning and rearranging furniture at our lake house, this may not sound like fun but I love it! Getting ready for summer….The difference is this summer I will be willing and open to
enjoying it!
I can definitely see that my eating is connected to pleasure. Thank you for this lovely video! Definitely rings true in so many ways.
Hi Sarah,
I think the thing that frustrates me the most about my body is my stomach. I’ve had two c sections with healthy children which was a blessing but my stomach is bigger than I would like for it to be. For fun I am going to sit on our outdoor swing and read a magazine.
1.In High school I told myself People won’t like me if I’m fat.I have always been athletic but I emotion eat.
2. I’m going to dance today.
Today for fun I am going to listen to a comedy podcast during my commute home. I am going to turn off the TV when we have dinner!!
My biggest challenge is not moving enough. I have the time to get on my treadmill and I don’t do it.
My issue has really been a very stressful job with a difficult director. I haven’t felt fulfilled by it in a while, but I was fearful if I left without another job I will be a failure. It resulted in terrible weight gain and depression. The cycle has just been getting worse. I made a decision for find a graceful exit and will be pursuing that plan today. My fun thing for the day is playing with my puppy, picture to follow.
My takeaways today: do something fun, eat without distraction and leave a comment as to where I am on my “journey”; I am a 55, soon to be 56 year old woman who weighs more now than I ever have. I am also a paramedic, and have some knowledge of health and nutrition. I have had bilateral total knee replacements already (not related to weight but to genetics and certain activities when I was younger). I know that I need to move more, and quite frankly, drink less wine, to have a healthier body internally which is one of several keys to feeling good about yourself. I do have high blood pressure and I may or may not be a borderline diabetic. I have good intentions to move more, but I am often distracted by other commitments I have in my life, and am often too tired to follow through. For fun today..I am going to take the time to “play with my plants” and small garden by trimming up my plants, dead-heading and watering (all in the gorgeous sunshine). LOL…I just had a yogurt snack while watching the video and typing my comment, so eating my lunch with intention will have to be next.
I, too have struggled with my body since I was very young. I have always felt “not good enough” and beneath my skinny peers because of my weight. I always felt hat people were friends with me, hired me, even dated (and married!) me IN SPITE OF my weight. I have felt unworthy because I am heavy.
Currently, my biggest challenge with my body is joint pain (definitely exacerbated by weight!) I have 2 young boys and I want to be able to keep up with them and joint injuries are the biggest challenge with that.
For fun today: start outlining the children’s book I want to write. 🙂
Eating without distractions is very… Distracting. I get anxious!
Hi Sarah! Thank you for this video series! I’m looking forward to watching the rest of them!
My #1 body struggle has been overeating. Lack of restraint, unhealthy choices, and eating until I hate myself. I know what I “should” do, but putting it into practice has always been unsustainable for me. I grew up in a town of blonde, skinny girls and I was always more curvy and athletic, even as a kid. I thought from a young age that I needed to be skinnier, be skinnier to be popular, fun or someone that people would want to be around. As I got older, I realized I just need to be myself, but I was still gaining and gaining, eating more, moving less. I have spiraled since having my daughter to the point where I gained back all my pregnancy weight and constantly feel tired, achy and out of shape. I want to be active again for my daughter but also for myself. My husband and I used to go hiking and on adventures and we have just gotten comfortable in our discomfort, if that makes sense.
For fun today, I’m going to go for a bike ride later, and take my daughter to the playground. And today, instead of hanging out on my phone while she plays, I’m going to leave my phone in the car and play with her.
Thank you!
I have never liked my body!
Fun thing today will be chatting with my daughter xx
My relationship with my body hasn’t been good. Although I’m not overweight by a lot, I don’t see myself as attractive. My husband frequently give me praise and encouraging comments and compliments. This year I made 2 decisions, I committed to regular exercise and now run 3 times a week. I also cut gluten out of my diet. My life has been transformed. I crave being outdoors, I crave healthy food, my body has begun to tone up. I’ve gained confidence and pushed myself way beyond my comfort zone.
For fun today I have sat down with my daughter and done what she wanted to do when she got home from school. Therefore I’ve eaten a lollipop and watched Lassie on the TV.
With regards to eating without distraction it’s really only breakfast time, especially on a work day that I need to work on. It’s normally grabbing something quick while I’m getting myself and everyone ready for work and school.
Well ladies-I have struggled with my body since I can remember. I was always the chubby kid and this spiraled into a lifetime of body hate, constant dieting and a bad relationship with food. I went through life feeling less than because I always weighed more:( My parents divorced by the time I was 7. My mother suffered from depression and I spent lots of time trying to make her laugh. I was the girl with the “pretty face” if only you could loose some weight, they would tell me. When I look back at pictures from middle school I realize I wasn’t that much bigger and I could have been encouraged to love myself but instead I was still shown by family, friends and society that I was less than for weighing more,
Skip ahead-After having my second child I suffered from PPA & PPD. Two years later discovered I had candida (yeast overgrowth in digestive tract) was sick all the time and have spend the last 3 years trying to get myself better. I spent many days in the fetal position on the couch in terrible tummy pain. I am finally on a better track. I am with an integrative doctor that has helped me tremendously. However I still struggle and recently had bacteria overgrowth in my stomach. YUCK! I recently discovered that dairy & egg don’t agree with me which is funny because during all my diets those were my go to’s. Later after more blood work the doc asked me to take out corn & grains. WHAT?! Not easy. I am staying away from dairy, eggs & corn as much as possible and sticking with grains like quinoa that are easier to digest. My daughter struggled and suffered from day 2 on this earth with digestive issues, many the same as mine and my son has an adverse reaction behavior wise to Gluten. I used to love to cook! I was really good at it too, Now the kitchen and the grocery store make me annoyed and confused.
To top things off my mom, also my best friend unexpectedly died last summer. She was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer metastasized to the brain and in 5 weeks she was gone. It was horrid and I’m still struggling to deal with that. I am by nature an emotional eater. So all the weight I lost I gained back. Here I am sad, still hating my body, bored and not living the life I really want. Thing is I have an incredible husband and two amazing kids so I have everything I wanted in that department. I need to focus on me for a change and that was NEVER easy for me. I am a people pleaser. I like to help people but to a fault.
Sarah you are clearly on to something here. I want to live because after loosing my mom it really showed me how short life is and how fast it can all be taken away. I am going to follow you closely and hope that I can be good to myself and live more so I can finally weigh less. I truly feel like I am in a fat suit, I wish I could just unzip it already.
Today I am going to do some gardening for fun and read to my daughters class. I am looking forward to meeting like minded ladies and being good to myself.
Heather xo
Hi Sarah!
I really related to your comments. I went to my first weight watchers meeting when I was 16 and have been on a diet of some sort ever since. Both my parents have struggled with weight as well so this roller coaster has come with the gene pool. To make matters worse,I have only one sister and she has been gifted with skinny genes (we have a few in the ancestral pool!).There have been times I have just said “enough” , I am going to eat normally like everyone else and then, of course, the weight comes back. I am approaching a milestone birthday (60! I can’t even believe it) and as with every one of these, this is the time I say to myself, “time to get serious so you don’t spend another decade fat”!
I have a longish, traffic laden commute so today for fun, I am going to take the sports car and turn up the tunes and just maybe do another fun thing tonite with my husband!
Thanks to you and others for the motivation, inspiration and daring to leave a comment!
Hi, Sarah. Thank you for your honesty and for holding a space open for others to be forthcoming about issues with food and body image. So, here I go…
My current relationship with my body is complicated. My weight is near an all-time high and I feel uncomfortable in my own skin. At the same time though, I am more accepting of it than I have ever been. The change from self-loathing and shame to self-acceptance occurred gradually over the course of a couple of years as I began to believe that my self-worth was not tied to my weight, or my physical appearance. (It was easy to comprehend intellectually but internalizing it was difficult.) This has been quite a shift after a lifelong struggle with weight and self-esteem issues.
As for what I intend to do for fun today … I intend to make a pair of earrings for myself.
Biking would be nice… After my physical I’m hoping to go biking… Boy, it’s been awhile… It will be fun! The breeze, the sun, the grass, the dogs, the squirrels and much more… Hopefully, I’m out of the doctor’s office in time… They tend to take close to 2 1/2hrs just having you sit around…
Relationship with my body/ love how it serves and protects me- do not like how heavy it is currently,
For fun I am going to go to my favorite cafe, with my daughter and not get a tea to go- but sit down and spend some time. High school graduation is tommorow and big changes are underway.
Two years ago I was in a place where I loved my body I was at my ideal weight and it looked like this this time I was going to be able to keepthe weight off. And now that I look back losing the weight probably saved my life. I discovered a lump in my right thigh, I had suffered from chronic back pain for several years and I had tried everything including getting a neurotransmitter to help me deal with the pain. It turns out that lump was cancer. I was fortunate that it was not a fast growing cancer or even very aggressive. Cancer treatments are not kind to any part of your body and two years later I am left with a body I don’t know or feel comfortable in. I have limitations because of the cancer treatments my knee no longer bends very well. And my hair is very different since the chemo. But I no longer suffer from cronic pain! So Iam hoping to learn to love my new body. Today for fun I will plant some seed in my garden so that I can find joy in watching them growand joy in eating something I grew!
My relationship with my body is one of disappointment and hatred. I’m a type one diabetic that often gets confused with a type 2 because I’m overweight and I have PCOS and with doctors constantly telling me I’m not doing enough to manage my disease and my weight I spend a lot of time loathing my body, because I feel like it betrayed me and my vision of my life. I always thought I’d spend my life traveling the world and now I feel trapped in a boring day job, because I need insurance just to live. I also was finally trying to live my life to be healthy instead of focusing on my weight and then recently I had a doctor visit where I was told again that I wasn’t trying hard enough and that I should get bariatric surgery. It was debilitating to feel again trapped in a body that doesn’t support my wishes for my life.
The fun I plan to do today is to hula hoop outside. I love doing it and it allows me to tap into my creative self.
Hi, I’m 40 years old and struggle with loving my body. I’ve recently over the last 3 years gained 30 pounds back. Despising my belly rolls and back fat.
I desperately want to love my body at any phase she may be in. I’ve recently in the last 6 months become very into Yoga and Meditation. Diving into a much deeper me…at times its been rather painful and other times absolutely uplifting.
For fun today, I think I’ll go for a run at the gym and do a Yoga Class there instead of at home. Afterwards, I think I’ll sit on my porch and enjoy the sound of the frogs for a few minutes.
I will definitely work on eating without distraction.
Thank you Sarah
I’ve been reading your emails for YEARS, but I think it’s finally time to take action. Three babies, PPD, anxiety, losing my mom to cancer, grief and anger have all taken a toll on my mind and body.
I’ve tried it all, and I mean, ALL. And it’s exhausting and I’m done.
Ready for this, so ready. Thanks Sarah <3
I would say the number one struggle I have with my body is my weight.I am always feeling like i am over weight even like right now in the last three months i have lost 23 pounds and I still feel like i am fat. I didn’t really like my body until I was about 33 years old I am 42 years old now. I don’t know what happened in my life that made me look at my body differently but I did. I can walk around my house naked (not in front of my children of course) I sleep naked, I can look at myself in the mirror naked and not be freaked out, I am just struggling with my weight and not knowing what is a good weight for myself. As for eating without any distractions is something I already try to do on a daily basis. In my home we call it Mindfully eating. Some days it isn’t always mindful however for the most part i try to be mindful of my eating with little to no distractions. The one thing that I am going to do for myself today is take the time to finish a picture that I have been coloring for past few months…. Have an Amazing Day Everyone
I am doing the LMWL program but am utilizing the 30 day challenge cohesively with the program. Today for fun I am going to get up with some girlfriends to take our dogs on a walk!
I am working on loving my body and focusing on eating consciously. Breakfast is going really great but it’s the subsequent meals I struggle with! So I am working on eating all meals consciously this week. Thank you Sarah for your program and this challenge! ?
Wow, love that way of thinking. I’ve not really dieted much as I knew from others experience that they didn’t work but I didn’t know what to do instead. Obviously I knew what I should be eating and how much I just couldn’t see how to tackle the emotional bit. At the moment my body is crying out for help. For the first time I can see that my weight is affecting my health and what I can and cannot do. It’s time to change. For fun I’m going to be greedy today. I’m going to spend 15 minutes playing with my kids outside – usually I let them get on with it whilst I cook dinner or whatever and for me I’m going to actually do some of the craft I love to do but am usually too busy/tired/apathetic to do. Thank you for your insight I’m blown away. X
Love the video! Love the idea of having fun first and not putting off things for when you lose the weight. I am 46. I’ve been overweight most of my life, but about three years ago, I lost about 70 pounds, when I found a new music genre. It excited me and I just wanted to move around and get out and go to concerts. I kept the weight off for a couple of years, however, I started a new job that is pretty stressful and I have gained it all back. I have made some awesome new friends since we moved to the city, but I tend to shy away from alot of activities because I don’t feel comfortable in my body. For fun today, I’m going out with a couple of my friends to a winery. I want to focus on enjoying their company and hopefully will have lots of laughs.
No 1 struggle:emotional eating.
Doing for fun today:went for a walk lunchtime &I’m going to the movies after work, just by myself.
Working on eating with no distractions.
Thanks Sarah, it really resonates with me.
My struggle right now is that I have placed a condition on getting pregnant – I decided at some point (not quite consciously) that in order to get pregnant and have a good pregnancy and feel good after the baby is born, I need to get into really good shape (i.e. thinner!!)…that, combined with some newly-wed weight gain has me feeling meh about my body..
Terena– I went through the same thing!!! I wanted to loose a lot of weight before I got pregnant. I did loose a little but then I realized as long as my doctor said it was safe I would go for it. Life is too short. Family members became sick and some past and my husband and I decided not to wait another minute. If you are ready to have a baby and your doctor says it’s safe go for it. The love and yumminess I get from my kids on a daily basis is like no other. Being pregnant actually made me feel good about my body for the first time in my life. Best of luck to you;) xo
My number one struggle with my body is yo-yo dieting. I’ve done it all my life. I’ve never been able to find a way to break the cycle. I’m 49 years old and been dieting since I was 10!
The one fun thing I’m going to do today is… art journaling!