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I have so much to write. But I will hold back. I want to have fun again. I am going out tonight with two of my best friends and reconnecting after too long.
Oh my…where to start and where to with this information? All I keep thinking is, I don’t know how to have fun. I’ve got excuses as to why I can’t have fun, especially today. But besides that I can’t imagine what I would do that would be fun. I’ve always been the chubby one growing up. Weight is a constant battle and one I lose at. I’m happy I found this program because I can feel myself being stretched, and my self thinking being put into a new light…and it’s scary, but not impossible feeling.
My biggest struggle with my body is that I hate the fat. I want to wear all these pretty dresses and styles but they seem to make them for smaller women, because when I put them on have a saggy gut and my butt isn’t as smooth looking as all the “good looking” people, etc. I don’t feel like I’ll have more fun or get to a better part of my life if I lose the weight, I feel like I’d be happier because I can finally wear the styles and clothes that I feel are me and I can dress as myself instead of the way I dress now…plus I feel like it would help me with my confidence and self-esteem. When people say I’m pretty and stuff (I have a good amount of guys after me) I think they’re crazy because every time I see myself in the mirror I’m disgusted, so I convince myself their lying because they just want “something else” from me.
One fun thing eh…That’s going to be hard. I have very little money, and I’m out for work from 11:30-8 today, plus I have my 3 year old (not saying she isn’t fun, but it limits my choices), and it’s cold outside <.<. I'm being extra silly with her today and we're having a blast laughing. I also have fun at work though, I work at McDonalds, they usually stick me in the payment window and I have fun seeing all of the little kids (I'm a bit baby crazy) and playing with them/talking to the parents while they wait in line, and I have fun seeing how many happy meal boxes I can make to block myself in and make a fortress out of them.Maybe after the LO is in bed I'll actually relax for an hour and play some video games 🙂
As for the eating without distractions…I do a decent bit of eating with and without distractions, plus I have a pretty good palette so even when I eat with distractions I still take the time to taste my food but…I'll eat distraction free starting now (was eating breakfast while watching the video..haha :P) for the next couple of days and note any differences if there are any, but I'm pretty sure I know what I like 😛
For years I have dieted, I was a weight watcher leader, gained all weight back after having my last child.
I easily worry and stress as I have a child with learning difficulties and he had disabilities too.
My husband works hard but no support for children, I kind of feel neglected by him, so often I feel lonely.
Very bad stressful day with son, I took to painting fences, not so much fun they needed doing and after it makes me feel I done something worthwhile, and happy. I will plan something fun for tomorrow and for the future.
I shall go to eat at table tonight as I generally eat and watch tv.
Good luck all xx
Video 1 Comments. I’m going to yoga with my best friend for fun today. My relationship with my body is that it’s utilitarian. Like a cement truck. It gets me where I want to go, but it’s not pretty.
I have the opposite problem with food, I don’t eat enough and my energy is really suffering because of this.
I am going to eat mindfully to start off a good relationship with food, I’m also going to try and use the ideas in this challenge to help me stop smoking, as I smoke when I’m stressed.
As for doing something fun today I am going to go and think about what to do! I’ll get back to you later xx
My relationship with my body is, I would say, fair. I am not someone who grew up with a weight problem. I was painfully skinny until college, and then I was the “hot chick” well into my thirties. Sometimes I catch sight of my overweight, aging body in the mirror and I’m shocked and horrified, especially when I’m naked (floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the bedroom of my rented home). On the other hand, I also feel that I am stronger and more agile than many others my age, even those who are thinner and appear to be healthier. I can get on the treadmill and run a couple of miles, bouncing cellulite be damned! I love to swing dance, but I haven’t been going to classes, because I have told myself the (very small) expense is wasteful and could be better spent on paying my bills. For fun, tonight I will go to a swing dance class and stay for the open dancing afterward, and reconnect with how much I enjoy that.
Going to go to line dancing lessons x i have always thought about my body its not outside that matters its insidex untill recently as ive got a 2 yr old and i need to be fit and healthy to be around to watch him grow up x
Holy cow, I could write a book about ‘my story’!! A brief overview would look like this: puberty=weight gain, emotional eating, sadness. College=weight loss, emotional fatigue, sadness.
1st ‘real’ Job/Marriage/children=physical fatigue, emotional abuse, sadness…divorce, single parenting, struggle, sadness.
Re-marriage=3rd child, ‘wife of the boss’, hostess, maid, cook, taxi driver,physical abuse, sadness.
Divorce=single parent..again, huge financial responsibilities, death of Mother, support for Father, children grown & moving out, sadness.
Current life….4year relationship, happy, great friendships, loving life, physical issues (hip replacement, broken foot), very little physical activity, menopause, weight
gain, slipping into sadness & fear of cycle
starting over.
I am excited to be part of this wonderful group of women, loving the supportive comments and hope to feel the ‘spark’ I’ve been lacking to redirect my thinking!
I plan on doing some decoration today…one of my favorite things!!
Live well ladies!
I’m not tall (5’2″) and I carry my weight in my belly. I recently had someone wish me “best of luck with your delivery”. I haven’t been pregnant in over 10 years. Ouch. I lost my daughter a few years ago. I comfort myself with food. I feed my sadness, stress, loneliness, and anger. I reward myself with food. I’ve tried many, many diets. I live my life thinking ahead of what I will do and how I will live when I lose weight.
I don’t know when the last time was that I did something fun. I have plenty of enjoyable moments but I haven’t focused on myself and doing something purely for my joy in a very long time. Today I will go work a busy 12 hour shift as a nurse but I will do something small for myself before I go. I think I will sing in the shower and paint my nails.
Since I was a young girl, I’ve yearned to have the ideal body. The body that magazines and social media has imposed in our minds. So, I’ve always struggled with my weight. I’ve tried countles diets just hoping that I’ll have the perfect body and every thing else will fall into place. But, to no avail, I still do not have the perfect body. I have thick thighs! I do not wear shorts and/or short skirts or dresses because I have cellulite on my thighs.
I can’t remember the last time I had fun. I don’t know what I like to do for fun. It’s so sad. I can tell you what I enjoy doing. I love Yoga, reading, walking, talking & laughing with friends, I like gardening, working out at the gym,swimming, cooking and helping people.
And, I always eat with distractions and on the go. So, today, I will eat without distractions.
Ladies, I’ll have to think of something to do for fun. I’ll keep you all posted. Have a blest day.
Since I was a young girl, I’ve yearned to have the ideal body. The body that magazines and social media has imposed in our minds. So, I’ve always struggled with my weight. I’ve tried countles diets just hoping that I’ll have the perfect body and every thing else will fall into place. But, to no avail, I still do not have the perfect body. I have thick thighs! I do not wear shorts and/or short skirts or dresses because I have cellulite on my thighs.
I can’t remember the last time I had fun. I don’t know what I like to do for fun. It’s so sad. I can tell you what I enjoy doing. I love Yoga, reading, walking, talking & laughing with friends, I like gardening, working out at the gym,swimming, cooking and helping people.
And, I always eat with distractions and on the go.
Ladies, I’ll have to think of something to do for fun. I’ll keep you all posted. Have a blest day.
I’m fairly happy with ‘me’, although there’s always a little self doubt and I’m never beach body ready. Instead of concentrating on weight and numbers on the sad step, I shall be out having fun and doing more. Today for fun and eating without distractions, I had breakfast out with my husband. I didn’t take a phone and we sat and we talked. It was great to reconnect as a couple instead of only listening to half a conversation.
I’ve been working on loving me as a whole person but struggle with the idea of loving my body, when I know I really should. I was always slim (though in my head I thought I was bigger) up until I had children and then the weight slowly crept on. I miscarried a baby at three months and then a few months later my husband had an affair while we were on holidays. From that moment on, I felt I was a nothing. Why should I care about my body as it was obvious that the man I loved didn’t care about it. A few years later I was diagnosed with depression and was advised to try and exercise to help with my situation. I became a gym junkie and was at the gym exercising 7 days a week for a solid year and then regularly for at least 4 to five days a week for many more months after that. I lost 35 kilos just by exercising and eating healthy. I was so proud of myself and felt great, though I noticed that everyone commented on my appearance more than the person that I was. My husband was all over me which was great but it also made me realize that my looks and figure was more important to him than me .. the person. Illness and injuries have been my burden for the last 7 years and my weight has gone up and done. Throw in a marriage separation, broken relationships, heartache, two breakdowns and now a condition with my legs which affects my mobility, it’s been a freaking awful time on my body. I have worked so hard on my mental self and have come a very long way and I’m probably the happiest I have been in many many years, but again it’s my weight that is holding me back as I don’t feel comfortable or confident in the skin that I am showing right now and I’m a terrible culprit for making fun of my weight. I am a good person, with a strong and beautiful heart and it upsets me that I don’t treat my body with the respect that I treat my inner child/myself.
This challenge for day two .. well, it’s a like giving yourself a big hug and saying nice things to yourself, if you know what I mean. I need to love that inner self alot more and fuel and treat it with the utmost respect .. and nurture it.
In regards to eating without distractions, I have at times, eaten whilst doing other things but am back to focussing on the food and letting my brain recognise what I am eating, the taste, the sensation and consistency of the food and eating for energy input. More time spent chewing and actually looking at the food instead of being distracted makes an enormous difference plus you fill up better.
Thank you for the reminders about Fun in your life and Eating without distractions. x
I have never been satisfied with how my body looks and my weight has fluctuated since my mid teens. When I have been slim I just needed to be a little bit slimmer and now as I’ve gained weight I just want to get back to being that slim again!!
Today for fun I’m going to take a walk in the sun on the beach 🙂
My overall struggle is feeling off balance, I look at my body and there are parts that I love and parts that I despise, so instead of focusing and enjoying the parts that I love, I take a overall view and don’t like what I see. However, feeling off balance isn’t just a struggle with my body, it is with my relationships, job, overall sense of being. I want to return to the fun loving, always laughing woman that I used to be, 10-15 years ago.
I am traveling for work today, so for something fun I am going to look for a new place to explore, whether it is the beach, or historical site in Costa Mesa, CA. That is one thing about my new career, the travel affords me many opportunities to explore new places. 🙂
I have never been super skinny and dont think i would want to be. I lost my daughter a few years ago and I my weight, emotions, self esteem and pretty much my life spirralled out of control. My son was the only thing that kept me sane and kept pushing myself on. Now am back to work and want to take control of my life and #LiveMore. I want to get back on track for myself. I want to improve what i can in my life and also be happy and comfortable with any flaws that more challenging.
My struggle with my body is my mid-section. I’m rather short at only 5′ and therefore lots of clothes seem to not suit or sit well on my figure for my height. I love to experiment with colours and patterns and am quite outgoing and will try all styles to find things but still sometimes end up looking quite dumpy.
Today for fun i think i’m gonna give myself a manicure and face mask. And possibly blast up the music and dance round the house whilst i have half an hour to myself. It always put me in good spirits after a long day at work.
I am so sorry that you lost your child. I cannot imagine a greater loss. You are inspiring in how you are focusing your life! I hope you dance and have much color in your life daily! You deserve it. Thanks for sharing!
Your post could have been mine! I too, lost my daughter and found that I use food to comfort myself. I justify my eating (at least I’m not using drugs, at least I’m not drinking alcohol, at least….) but I’m not caring for myself the way I should. And I am 5’2″ and carry any and all extra weight in my mid-section. I’m sending positive thoughts for strength & peace to you.
Always been big but have lost 6 stone, 2years ago became ill with a chronic illness relapsing polychontritis and my world has changed fatigue is a big part and so puting weight back on and slowly hating myself, promised myself to go couple of drinks and the flicks so love films x
I look at my young beautiful daughter struggle with hating her body like I have all these 50 years and I just think, ENOUGH! Women are so much more than their bra size or pant size. Sarah is dead on – let’s choose to live and be happy in our body with all its flaws and strengths now, TODAY. For our sake, and for the next generation of women. Because really ladies, we are all beautiful.
Body image. Awful .. 7 years ago, I had lost 50lbs just weeks before my 50th bday. I felt great! I was full of energy and happy, I felt great because I knew I looked great. Clothes fit, I was a size 6. Everything was “sunny”. Then the pounds crept up. Menopause. I started seeing me in pictures. Ugh! Awful. Even a trip to my favorite place on earth (Disney) had me self conscious. I wouldn’t print out pictures because of me.
And here I am.. 2 years later, still struggling. My just-21 year old daughter recently text me from school. She said “mom, you’re fine the way you are. It’s your body’s happy place. I think you have to learn to love yourself, because you really don’t love you.”
So… How DO you do that? I was fat-shamed as a kid. By my pediatrician, my family, friends… No self esteem. Only when thin, then I have self esteem and self worth
Fun? It’s been awhile since I’ve had fun, not sure what I’d do.
I have struggled with my weight my whole life. I was the fat kid with glasses in grade school. In junior high and high school I did slow down but then gained alot of weight weight with an early pregnancy (20). Throughout the years I have tried all kinds of diets. I did lose weight in my early 30s only to have then gotten a thyroid condition and gained it all back and alot more. I am now almost 50, going through menopause, am prediabetic, and continue to try and lose weight. It feels like I have spent my entire life on a diet or blowing a diet and starting again on Monday. I dont like my body. I do think I have a pretty face but then see the rest of my self and think oh yuck. When I see pictures of myself I am like really you really are huge. I do have a wonderful spouse and we are fairly busy and enjoy each other. You know I am always thinking about food, whats for lunch, what should we have for dinner, if we are out in town running around then I am figuring out the timing of the next meal even when I and no one is hungry. I dont know how to stop that. Another problem I have is we like to go out to eat. Also food is the center of entertainment.
One thing I am going to do for fun today is stop at the park while doing errands and feed the ducks and Canadian geese and look at the lake and even take a walk on the walking trail. Being with the nature and looking at the water always makes me feel better. I really enjoyed your video and think you are on to something instead of the same ol same ol about dieting and healthy eating.
Hi there,
My current relationship with my body is that I don’t like how I look with or without clothes. I’m not as proud of it. I’m short (5’0) which makes me feel like whatever weight k have, I just look bulky or short and stumpy.
I also was hoping that one of your topics today would be addressing friendships as I think that’s what my current struggle is. I don’t really have friends and am dying to make those really great life long friends.
I have been slender most of my life although am 5’11” tall, feeling Big. With kids, life, work I have gained and lost weight. Two years ago, post a small back surgery I lost my athleticism and ability to live life as I had managed it. I could do many things I had done before although not to the same degree. A relationship failed, I took a high stress, well paying position, I returned to school ….. I am your perfect candidate as I have found myself waiting for the weight, waiting to exercise, waiting to move, waiting to be fit like I always have been and waiting on dating…just waiting. Fun for today is a walk on the beach, a facial and dinner with friends. Just reading this I feel like ” shut up” :). This will be good!
I have definitely been waiting on the weight. As you spoke of this I painted this very clear ugly picture of me doing this. Time to stop waiting and enjoy life. I realized I need to do more with my girl friends even if it takes me taking the initiative to make the plan. I am going to start by asking my girlfriend to go on a bicycle ride with me. I will also be working on focusing more on showing up in my relationship with my partner by first setting a positive inviting mood when I walk in the door after work. I will do this by lighting some candles, taking a shower, and sitting down relaxing for a few minutes before serving a candlelit dinner at the table vs. in the living room.I will do this at least twice a week.I will also continue to work on loving my body by continuing my weekly personal session with my long time friend/yoga instructor/ayurvedic doctor practicing taking care of me mentally/physically/emotionally, getting lymphatic massage, and practicing home care lymphatic techniques.
My plan for fun is Go to the river and enjoy the atmosphere that surrounds me. One struggle with my body is my lymphedema that causes my feet to hurt, look like elephant feethe, and causes a real problem when it comes to finding shoes that look good feel good and fit.
I went to the river by myself the other day and it was far more rewarding than staying home alone plugging away at my to do list. The atmosphere was relaxing and I found there were friends there to interact with so it helped ward off my feelings of saddness and loneliness that had been burdening me.
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1. My number one struggle with my body is my stomach.
2. What plan to do today is polish my nails and toes.
My number one struggle with my body has been the belief that I don’t actually feel or look pretty. The belief that I am at most moments ugly. Even though most might think otherwise. I want to love myself in my own skin. The one thing I am going to do for fun today is feed my plants the compost they really need to thrive. I have been wanting to do this to see how they respond and grow for weeks now.
I’m surprised and angry at my body. It doesn’t look the way I see myself, so shopping is really hard. I’ve also gained enough weight that it affects my energy level. This means things that things I used to like to do, now fill me with frustration & anxiety.
I’m going on a hike today with friends. I’m nervous because it is longer than I’m comfortable with. I’m going to be really present along the hike to enjoy the nature in the moment.
My relationship with my body is improving but still has a long way to go. I’m heavy than I ever have been and happier than I have been in a long time because I’ve decided to stop worrying about what size my body is. I still have a lot of trouble with emotional eating. Often I’m staring into an empty chip bag or pint of ice cream with no real memory of how it tasted or how I ate all that in such a quick time. I know I need to treat my body better with more nourishing foods. I’ve been trying to be more mindful with my eating but stress makes old habits thrive.
Today for fun I’m going to can candied jalepenos. I love canning and was supposed to do it with a friend but she had to cancel. No need to put something that brings me joy on hold.
Love to the universe!
Can I just say that this came along exactly when I needed it to? I have struggled with body image since adolescence. After high school I had gained some weight, which took YEARS to get off, and was a constant focus in my life. I have spent my entire adult life worrying about and being dissatisfied with how I look.from the age of 29 to 50 I remained thin, and then I hurt my knee (kind of wear and tear from being a nurse and lifting weights) and menopause kicked in at 56. Seemingly overnight I gained 15-20 lbs.What has struck me recently is that no matter how good I have looked, I have never felt good. It is time for this to stop and to embrace what I have now. Which (with gratitude) I realize is pretty good. I just went to Europe on vacation and saw all types of women in bikinis (all ages, shapes and sizes). For the first time in about 16 years, I exposed my bare arms and legs publicly (LOL – so much time waste)… I am going to start to love myself today, and focus on my own individual beauty. I also want to be open to having a special man in my life and possibly remarrying! Something fun I am going to do. Tonight I am starting to redo rate my apartment in colors I love (pink and aqua)…