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My number one struggle with my body…coming to terms with my shape! I am currently heavier than I have ever been and am not comfortable with it, I just don’t like what I see in the mirror, especially my belly. BUT…I love my life and don’t want to give up eating out, enjoying a few glasses of wine and certainly don’t want to become a gym slave. O don’t understand why i snack, maybe its just a bad habit I’ve got into…I even ate a bag of crisps/chips (depending where you are) while watching the video – so I need to get that straight in my head and cut it out!
I have just been shopping and bought myself MORE flowers following yesterday’s challenge, in which I picked some from my garden, but got so much pleasure from them that I decided to do it again today 🙂 My fun today will be spending a whole hour reading a good book, which I don’t do nearly often enough.
I struggle to stay strong. I feel tired and fatigued most of the time and feel my muscle mass disappearing. I’m going to do some yoga.
For fun today, I am going to make myself a flower arrangement from my garden.
I have been in physically great shape, and then at times, my body has been mediocre, never overtly overweight, just blah. No matter where I was in my exercise stage, I always looked in the mirror and only focused on flaws, rather than acceptance and pride. I will always do some kind of exercise because I enjoy it, but I want to love my body regardless of how much or how little I exercise.
My number one struggle with my body has been neglect (perhaps abuse is a better term). About 50% of the time I am mindlessly feeding it the so called “comfort foods and drink.” This feels good for about a minute and then leads to feeling horrible about myself physically, emotionally and mentally. I really like the idea of eating without distractions and I’m looking forward to trying this step today and seeing what it reveals.
For fun I plan on getting our Cornhole set out and challenging my husband to a game. We have played once so far this year.
Great video! Thanks:)
~Sherri
#livemorechallenge
I watched the video this morning and found the 1st question really difficult cos the truth is theres so much i dont like about my body but theres some things i never use to like which im now ok with. When i was a teenager i hated the way i looked, my hair, my face and my body although bk then i wasnt that big a lovely size 10 but i didnt appreciate it cos when i looked in the mirror everything about me was wrong now after 4 children im a size 16-18 (a few years ago i was 18-20 hated my body was in a bad abisive relationship and thought thats all i deserved, i got out of that relationship 20 months ago) this is the 3rd time ive done the challenges and slowly my confidence has grown. I look back at pictures of when i was younger and no longer see a misfit but quite an attractive girl, my body has grown but im not as unhappy with it as i use to be hiding behind baggy t shirts i even sometimes wear dresses something i would never have done before, ive got a few wrinkles and grey hairs(get rid of those with hair dye lol) i would like to be slimmer especially my belly but i remind myself i am who i am and actually thats not a bad thing if it happens (which it is gradually) great but im not spending more time trying to starve myself for the perfect figure to then end up eating loads and feeling guilty like ive done so many times instead ive changed some aspects of my life since the 1st challenge such as not feeling guilty for putting myself 1st sometimes, enjoying myself by once a month having a night out with friends, dressing nicer no more baggy t shirts, treating myself to things sometimes rather than putting myself last as i use to and most recently started swimming great relaxing exercise that i really enjoy and gives me some me time too.
Question 2 fun, despite having lots of things i should be doing i took some time out to have a catch up with a friend just sitting, chilling and chatting something i should do more often and then spent time having fun with my children sitting on floor playing with toys with them and it was really nice as usually do fun stuff at a weekend but school days after school run is usually my cooking, cleaning, bathing kids, homework and getting them to bed so cleaning can wait till later or even tomorrow
The Number one struggle for me has been to keep the weight off and to tone up my body. For fun today I went on a walk with a friend and went through a botanical gardens and then had lunch with my son.
Oh man! Your story resonates with me so much. At the age of 10, I was put on Weight Watchers by my mother and my doctor. My twig of a mom, who is amazing by the way, was really concerned that I was going to have a weight issue very early on and was determined to nip it in the butt. By the time I was out of high school, I had been on Weight Watchers on 3 different occasions, I had been hiding food from my mom for years, and taking money from her change jar so I could go out and buy candy and ice cream. (Forbidden foods in our house.) Over the years I have struggled, and in 2010, just before my 30th birthday, I had Gastric Bypass surgery. My 300lb self was going to start having health issues, other than high cholesterol, and I needed to take action.
This was the best decision of my life! I lost 150lbs. Got married, joined a roller derby league, enjoyed going out shopping and dancing, and made so many new/fun friends! Then I looked at my relationship…and consequently got divorced, right after a knee injury that took me out of derby, and then started to struggle again.
Now, 6 years later, I am between 30 and 35lbs heavier than my smallest self, and feel heavy. Climbing stairs takes my breath away. I’m always tires. I have a job I do not love (I’d say I hate it…but I’m on my way into work now and I don’t want to get super depressed). And to be honest, I don’t know what Iove anymore. I don’t know what is fun other than getting home watching tv and having a cocktail.
I think my biggest struggle, with my physical body, is that moving her hurts much of the time now. Well that and my spare belly (I call it my second belly) that never goes away!
Today, I will walk outside on my lunch break. I have found that just getting outside of the building has made the rest of the day more bearable.
This is the 3rd time I am going through the Live More, Weigh Less Challenge. It’s something that I always have fun with, but haven’t been able to put TIME into. But I need the change. I need my life to be more fun. I want to feel lighter emotionally and spiritually, and if that allows me to be physically lighter that would be wonderful, but honestly is no longer my only focus.
Thank you Sarah for sharing your story, your struggle, and your strength with us. I have a passion for helping people, and rarely ask for help, so your ability to reach out….really to reach me…means more than words can say.
Here goes nothing!
Lindsay
I love that my body gave mec4 beautiful children. I apogize to my body daily for failing it and getting out of shape. I hate my tummy!
I enjoy nature and use to love taking walks or going shopping. Now I don’t leave my house. So I’m going to take a walk!
I just LOVE this video! I stopped dieting over a year ago, and have focused on self-care and living the kind of life that lights me up! I love your message and I am so excited for all the women that will join on this challenge! My current relationship with my body is the best it has ever been, and I will continue to do the work on body image and body love! For fun today, I am going to read a sexy book in the sun!
Hi Sarah & Team,
Thank you for this series. My #1body struggle is my weak core and as a result i’m a big ol’ jelly belly with toothpick arms and legs ? (in relation to said belly)
I currently eat without distraction since moving 6 months ago from my gorgeous home city of San Francisco (born and raised) to Las Vegas. I no longer live a fast paced “city” life, noshing on breakfast while navigating my way through the city for work, meeting up for lunches, drinks, and dinners. My challenge will be to work on WHAT I’m mindfully filling my body with ?
Today I will bake, a passion of mine since I was in middle school. I got so busy with life that I unknowingly gave up my passions. Inactually baked cookies this past weekend for my friends son’s bday and there were a few people that were convinced I bought the cookies at a bakery. Lol nope, home made with love. I knew then I needed to get back into the game, today is that day!
❤️ Naomi
Hi Sarah
The main issue with my body is keeping my weight maintained I’ve been a yoyo since I was 15 when I first convinced my parents to send me to a diet club! That was 20 years ago. I feel so happy and confident when I’m slimmer and when I gain I feel lie in in a fat suit that doesn’t belong to me and I’m paranoid about every roll and extra boobage!!
The one fun thing in going to do today is show my friend around Hong Kong he’s surprised me last minute with a visit and it couldn’t have come at a better time as I’ve been feeling lonely. I will be discussing the fun element with him as he knows me better than I know me!!!
Michelle
As many others have said, keeping the weight off has always been an issue. Very much yo-yo-ing. Exercise is a struggle (time constraints). I live in fear of diabetes. I am okay with my image/body. I just struggle with being healthier. My fun thing today will be listening to my audiobook for an extra 1/2 hour . . .I relish those moments to escape the busy workday and perils of general life.
Thank you Sarah! I am off to the zoo today for some fun. I have been struggling with my body since college and daily fight with myself. I am single and feel like I am on a constant see saw between believing that if I weigh less I will find a man and rebelling against that idea by eating anything and everything I may want- neither do me any good.. I am so excited that you have put into words what I have suspected for a long time- excited for a community to encourage me in this journey.
My struggle is my belly. I have a large belly. Not just a tire around the middle…but the whole front of me.
Hi Sarah,
I can totally relate to this!!! I overeat because it makes me “happy” I use it as an excuse to make me feel happier after I’ve been at work all day (dislike my day job) or after a stressful situation. I tell myself “I NEED chocolate or something sweet” most of the time it is boredom, lack of willpower and its badly programmed in that I “need” it!
I broke up out of an 8 year relationship last September and since then it’s been a struggle for my financially. I have had to move house, work another job (I work 2 jobs now- day and evening) and I really find the change difficult at times. I used to live a fairly comfortable life with just one job, I used to go to the gym and be really healthy but since the upheaval i have really struggled to fit everything in that I used to, my finances are stretched and my health often suffers as I just have to pick up available cheap fast food off a tight budget plus I get an hour in between shifts every night to myself- not enough time to exercise or do as much for me as I used to. .
Tonight I can’t start anything fun because I don’t have the time Inbetween work shifts but the video has given me food for thought! (Excuse the pun!) I shall try and figure out a way to get more “fun” into my day in between everything else going on and maybe now I shall tell myself that I don’t NEED chocolate to make me happy, maybe I can find something else to fill that void!
Amy xx
Hi Sarah.
THANK YOU for the beautiful video, for sharing your personal story and for the wonderful nuggets of wisdom!. I’ve already made notes (my way of really processing ideas and emotions) and feel a sense of relief about embracing my body as it is now, for “this phase of life” and “for this lifestyle I have chosen.” I love your idea to fill myself so full of other things that I no longer need food to fill a void! I realize I am DEFINITELY deficient of fun (my husband is deployed, I work a full-time job and manage a full-time business along with our daughter’s extra curricular activity schedule, our home, our yard, our dog, etc…) and TODAY I am going to commit to going home and singing at the top of my lungs to some booty shakin’ songs by Prince, Justin Timberlake and Twenty One Pilots. I’m excited just thinking about it, actually! 😀
I’m looking very forward to your next video and the wonderful insight and advice you share.
My best!
Great insight! I have been involved with a weight loss program every year and will lose some pounds then eat from stress and put it right back on. Currently I work out at the gym during lunch a minimum of 3x a week and feel great from doing it. I usually eat breakfast on the run while getting my child ready for school or summer camp. I will eat lunch at work while surfing the web. During the last year I have been more focused on cooking healthier cleaner meals because we had gotten into a bad habit of eating fast food. Now we do sit down and eat dinner as a family without distractions such as tv or phone enjoying each other and our conversations. Thank you for your video series. I look forward to them. For fun today, I am going to do a dance class at the gym, maybe salsa or hip hop style. I am also planning on eating lunch without distractions at the park.
I’ve never been comfortable with my body and that I was good enough everyone seemed prettier or happier more confident and I just felt fat frumpy and boring that no one would be interested in me or like the real me. I now plan to try and find the real me learn to love me. I plan to spend girly time with friend tonight for gossip and laugh and not feel guilty spending time on me. I plan from tomorrow to mindful eat and not comfort eat cause bored stressed or unhappy and thanks for your talk it was so inspiring and rang true do much.
I am doing this live more challenge because I need to make a change in my life. I’m not sure what that is yet but I know 1. My biggest struggle with my body is fatigue. And feeling like I just don’t want to be touched by anyone. I am a hairdresser and at the end of the day any interaction just makes me feel likes energy is going to be taken from me.
2. Today I’m going to go for a walk in nature so that I can open up my soul again
The number one struggle for my body has been the yo-yoing up and down and, therefore, feeling uncomfortable in my own skin. Today I’m going to make some beautiful bookmarks to use while reading and studying.
hi Sarah!
Ihad my first baby a year ago and working all day in the computer i am struggling to get rid of some belly fat which somehow affects my selfesteem and makes me feel more insecure with my husband, who exercises everyday.
chocolate is just the most rewarding thing i do durind my work hours and after that, i spend all my time with my daughter so i haven’t been doing fun things that i like to do.today i am going to do a qoya class that i got online to have fun. will check back with the focus on eating task, that will also be a challenge for me.
Thanks fo the video series!
1) My number one struggle with my body has been my weight gain. I have been a yo-yo dieter most of my adult life. Now, at age 61, I am at my heaviest weight ever. It has been three years since I last lost some major weight and in that length of time the pounds have returned. It seems it gets harder to motivate myself to even want to try another diet plan after all my years of diet plans. I cannot say my diets were failures in that I always would reach my goal but it never lasted. My relationship with food is awful. I do not like to go grocery shopping. My husband enjoys getting groceries more than I do. I do not even think about what to cook for the evening meal anymore. We are at the age of no kids to feed at home which makes it so easy to just eat out. I do not enjoy making food at all anymore. At my age, you would assume I have a plethora of go-to recipes, but you would be mistaken. I feel like if I got involved in cooking again I would have to start all over like a new housewife to find recipes that I would enjoy. I think the yo-yo dieting just took all the fun out of cooking and gave me the outlook of all foods having something wrong with them and food is not to be enjoyed. I think I just feel lost in regard to wanting to try again in the kitchen. Also, at my age, standing in the kitchen for long periods is not friendly to my aching joints.
2) For fun today, I will … Gosh, I have to stop and think about this one. I love flower gardening, so since it is summer, I will visit the various greenhouses in my area. I do find joy looking at the many flowers.
My biggest struggle with my body is probably that 10 years ago I went from being a size 4 to a size 12 over the course of about 6 months. I have hated my body ever since and have pretty consistently been really abusive to myself over it. I have a hard time with the fact that I “let myself go” and that I lost control of myself. But (no surprise here) the more I hate myself and my body the more I eat and the bigger I get. I’m thinking that loving my body is going to work out better 🙂
For fun today I am going to take an hour for myself and color a mandala. I find coloring so fun and soothing but I never take the time to do it.
What can I do today that would be fun..go for a walk. period. That’s it. Just go for a walk…not before it gets too hot, not before I need to meet with the co-workers…not before anything. Just go for a walk because I want to!
I am really glad this video and program was brought to my attention. I really felt like this touched base of the problem that I am having when it comes to struggling with weight and life. I have had 3 kids in the last 4 years and really just have struggled with such a big change in such a short time.I lost focus of myself and got used to putting myself last so I am not the healthiest and I feel like it effects the mother and wife that I am. My thing to do fun for today is to go home and just play with me kids. I get so focused on cleaning and getting stuff ready for the next day that I want to just go home today and put all that aside and just truly focus what makes me have fun and smile MY KIDS!
First off, I am so grateful I found this challenge and your positive encouragement that focuses on more than my inches and pounds! I cannot say thank you enough and it’s only day 2.
My biggest struggle has been to learn that my self worth is NOT defined by my physique. I have struggled with this from a very young age. “If I’m thin enough this guy will like me, Etc …”. My mother, unknowingly, taught me that my body/figure was something that should look a certain way. So I became a closet over eater. As you can imagine, it caught up with me. I am happily married now and have two babies under two. With age (I am now 30) I no longer worry about trying to change myself for other people’s approval. But now I’m wanting to change for me. Finally! I want to love my body completely and am starting to work toward that.
For fun today, I will go for a run (I’m a novice runner and I have two small babies so yes, time running, alone, listening to my music is fun) and if I’m feeling really adventurous I might go to our local sports park and ride go carts or step in the batting cages. I used to love doing things like that 🙂
My relationship with my body is basically starving myself to skinny and loving my body or feeling like I’m wearing a fat suit. The way I feel about me has come mostly from the people around me and the attention I received from men. When I’m skinny everyone gives me attention and they tell they me how good I look. Now, I had two babies at 35 and 38 and I can’t get the weight off. I hate my body at the moment. I think for fun today I will go swimming with my daughter.
Today for fun I’m going shopping and then out to lunch with my two daughters!
Yes, yes, and yes. Everything you said – demanding job, neglected relationships, emotional and physical exhaustion, I was 54 years old and sitting in death’s waiting room when I realized that taking that seat was MY CHOICE! I had just given up from exhaustion and boredom. I don’t have any debilitating illnesses and I have the full use of my body and mind. Every time I have a physical and all my tests numbers come back really great I think, “Wow, I certainly haven’t done anything to deserve this gift of health.” I sincerely want to WAKE UP and LIVE! I have begun a program of self care that is imperfect but it’s working! Mind, Body and Spirit – small things everyday and doing my best to BE HERE NOW:-) For fun I am leaving my office at lunch time to buy some supplies to finish a couple of creative projects that I have left on the back burner too long. When I get home, I’m going to work on those projects because they are so engrossing and fun for me! I will post pic to Instagram!
I’ve struggled with weight my entire life. There’s even a story of a doctor ripping my parents a new one because, as a baby, I was overweight. I can think of two times in my life that I’ve lost weight and been proud of myself . 2 times in 34 years is not an aweful lot. Like you said, I could write my own diet book on the knowledge I’ve aquired over the years but people look at me like I have no idea what I’m talking about because I’m not the perfect size. I’ve even been thinking I must not have the right knowledge because nothing is working. Your idea of talking care of yourself and your life first is brilliant and if I think back to the times where weight loss was easier I remember it being a time that was more fun, more joyful and less stress.
For fun today I’m going to run to the store and buy some squirt guns. When my husband comes home, me and the girls are going to surprise him. I just know that Will lead to an entire house full of laughter.