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Two years ago I really didn’t like the way I looked and I covered up for “other peoples’ sakes.” I met a guy and we dated for only two months, but he made me feel so attractive that even after we broke up I continued to wear clothes that showed off my figure more and I no longer cared what other people thought because when I looked in the mirror I felt attractive. Now I really love my body and all of it’s curves. Of course, I still sometimes see parts of me that I need to embrace more (like my arms), but I try not to focus on the negative.
For fun today I am going to take a stroll with my friend and enjoy the last bits of warmth Wisconsin has to offer before the cold hits. 🙂
My relationship with my body, honestly I try not to think about it. I have had a long struggle with being “ok” in my skin. My weight has gone up and down (mostly up) all my life. And, the mindless comfort eating makes me sad.
I also have no idea what I am going to do for fun…that’s a very difficult one. I think as a mother, caregiver to parents, etc. it’s hard to think of yourself. And, after so long it’s almost as if you’re brain and body are on autopilot and they just do what they’re suppose to without a lot of thought about “me” and what I need. But, I am so excited to go through the Live More Weigh Less Program. I believe this is an answered prayer for me! 🙂
I would consider my relationship with my body as neglectful. It comes last in the whole scheme of things and then takes the brunt of my disappointment if it doesn’t quite live up to the standard I’ve set.
For fun, I just signed up for an Adult Ballet class. This is something that has been on my radar for at least 6 months. Thanks for giving me the push to go ahead and sign up. First class is Saturday morning!
I need to work on eating without distractions when I’m alone. If the family and or my 4 year old is with me, there are never any distractions. It’s when I’m home alone that I multi-task.
Adult ballet class… That is something I would really like to do. Good for you!
My relationship with my self is at an all-time low. Like you, I struggled with weight from a young age and I’ve just started to realize my issues stem not from a lack of self-control or ignorance about good food. AS you said, we can write diet books. I’m suffering from a lack of spirituality in my life and a disconnect from my body. I never have fun and I consider fun eating something tasty. I’m so straddled with responsibility that I’m going to have to work at getting some fun in my life and make it a priority.
Like you Sarah, I’ve always felt there was something wrong with my body – I remember at about age 5 comparing my thighs to my best friend’s and praying that I could magically become like her. Forty years later, that still hasn’t happened! Over the past nearly 10 years, I have struggled a lot with depression and my weight has fluctuated greatly during that time – I gained then lost then gained then lost… I became a vegetarian nearly 2 years ago and that did help with weight loss and feeling better about my food choices, but lately I’ve been wavering from that path. Eating without distractions is going to be a good challenge for me.
For fun today – well, I have an exam to do which is never going to be anyone’s definition of fun! But once that’s over, I shall take some time to walk my dogs, and I still need to buy my flowers from yesterday.
My relationship with my body is I’m mad that I sat around and ate for two years after my father died. So I have some frustrations around my size right now. I am grateful I am healthy and I’m using my body now to get back to doing healthy things I enjoy.
Today for fun -I am going to dinner with a dear friend and will meet her puppy.
I loved the part about being mindful when you eat -looking forward to trying this today and being more present.
Yayyyyy
I neither hate or love my body. It just is. It gets me through the day, takes me where I need to go and has served me well in the 40+ years I’ve been on earth. However, I could certainly do more to pamper, care and celebrate her and that is something I can do if I make it a priority. Historically, I know that when my schedule gets busy, self care and pampering are one of the first things to go by the wayside. However, I also know that when life is most hectic and stressful is when those self care things are so important. Today we get our CSA box from the local farm. I am going to spend some time menu planning how to use all the delicious produce that we get (this is fun and creative for me). I also plan to spend at least 1/2 hour reading.
Oh gosh… where to start? ?. My relationship with my body has been one hateful one. Always a giant among petite girls growing up. Hiding because i was embarrased all the time. Didnt do sports or dance for the same reason. Alwats hiding in the bathrooms at events. Then… at age 16 I blossomed. Still a size 12. Tall and beautiful and short lived. All i can think in my mind now when I see my family is what they must be thinking now that I am 100+ lbs overweight and Getting older. What I do know is that those days are not coming back. That I will not be nor have the same body I used to have. I do realise that now. And it makes me feel very unhappy. I gain weight mainly in my midsection, which is a horryfying sight. Yet I cannot bring myself to diet nor exercise. So here I am. I have so much to be grateful for. My boys are my everything and I need to be healthy and happy not only for me, but for them. Today I will go buy those flowers and stop and smell the roses while at work. I will find a quiet space somewhere and enjoy my lunch without distractions. Thank you for your encouragement and for sharing . We are not alone in this battle. We have eachother.
Xoxo
Olga
I feel that my tummy is sticking out more these days and I don’t like my eyebrows so pluck them. Which I battle with. I feel I eat for comfort at times when I either lonel, fed up or bored. And find once I start to eat I can eat it all.
The fun thing will be difficult as playing board games is fun but not able to do that, so will watch a funny film and enjoy a glass of wine
Fantastic video, what an inspiration Sarah is!
So….
My current relationship with my body is actually ok, I’ve lost weight recently by eating well because i was suffering from many of the things Sarah mentioned in the video but i do feel that i could learn to have a better relationship with food. I also want to start looking after my body and skin so i can feel good when i look at myself in the mirror.
As for fun…well i am married with no children, distant friends and a mother who has long term health conditions so fun is the last thing on my list. I would like to go to the cinema with my husband. I did go to a friends house last week for tea and we laughed all night long so I’d like to aim to do that again as i very rarely go anywhere.
I feel better already just by writing this down. Good luck ladies! X
Thanks for sharing so deeply in your video. My relationship with food has been a fear of not getting enough, for most of my life- partly because I have a high metabolism but also just a deeper sense of needing “more”, more love, more confidence, etc. I tend to chronically overeat, but also because it tends to numb those feelings of not being enough. My fear is that if am “empty”, I’ll have to really show up in my life, and be big, and be emotional, and be more honest, instead of hiding those parts in feeling numb. It’s kind of a fear of really living. It affected my weight a bit, like in college, or when I first met my husband to be, or after I had my second child and my pregnant belly stuck around. So there has been a physical effect on me, but I think it’s even more of an emotional cover-up. I’m so grateful to be making a conscious choice to love my body, my self and my life – and create life into something that truly inspires me and makes me excited to wake up every morning.
My “fun thing” today is actually going for a walk! Just getting outside and walking around the pond, being in the sunshine with my kids and my family. Yesterday I made a commitment to getting outside and moving every day because it feels good. Just doing the Live More challenge made me realize on how many levels I’m not really living my life the way I want to, and is giving me the boost and the courage to start changing that. 🙂
Eating without distractions will be easy since I have my parents visiting, we will be forced to clear the computer, etc off of the table just to make room for everyone!! And I’ll have a good excuse to get my hubby to turn off his phone 🙂
My relationship with my body is, I’m so grateful to be in good health and function perfectly however I would love to have a smaller stomach less fat in certain areas. Have more muscles and toned up……
Fun today is . Enroll to a corse which I have wanted to do for a long time,having a day when I don’t have to rush just take it easy. It allowed me to do more.
I usually eat without disruption which is great….
I’ve come to realise that that my weight and issues with my body actually came from comfort eating because I wasn’t happy with other aspects of my life mainly family relationships and then I put on so much weight but lacked motivation to do anything about it and when I finally wanted to start living I blamed my size and found so many faults in my body that I just sunk further but since following you about 2 years ago I’ve progressed so far I’ve started appreciating life and living it and found things about my body that I do like and becoming more confident and definitely having more fun. Im not yet loving my body but I’m finally liking it and I have lost weight gradually along the way.
Today for fun and as it was hot I had a water balloon fight with my kids in the garden was great fun.
I don’t always eat without distractions but I have started doing this more and it’s nice to actually taste and enjoy the food
not so fond of my body at the moment. Looking in mirrors almost always garners a scowl in return (from myself of course). so I try to not look in mirrors. My feet hurt every second of every day and I know it is, in part, because I am packing around 30 extra pounds. The scale taunts me daily. All in all, not happy with “the body” at all. Of course I feel like the body would fall into place if I didn’t such a weak willed, pathetic mind. Now. I KNOW this all isn’t true (intellectually) but it doesn’t change the feelings that are down in my gut.
As for fun? ha, I mostly don’t even know what I would consider fun anymore. So. I will do the one thing that always brings me joy and laughter and that is I will go play with the dogs. Nothing like watching a couple of terriers get “the zooms” to light up the afternoon or evening (they like to zoom in the evening best).
1) Since being in an abusive relationship and moving to a different country away from family, I have struggled with my weight. I am not as strong, agile or as healthy as I used to be. I recognise that I eat our of loneliness.
2) I have just finished work and have dinner to cook, homework with the kids and housework and washing to do yet BUT I will do all that whilst singing and dancing to my favourite music.
2) I always eat with my children at the table and as a rule without mobiles or TV, but I will eat mindfully today without thinking of bills, or work or other distracting stuff.
Thank you, Sarah. You are helping me loads and already making such a difference!
Sonja xx
I don’t have a good relationship with my body and over the years been on every diet going and think my life will start when I am slim. I will find the right man when I am slim etc.
Tonight for fun I going to help out at my running club beginner course.
Awesome video ! About a yr a go i packed up my things and moved away to get away from my unhappy life, away from people i no longer wanted in my life. But i realized when i got settled in i still wasnt happy, with life or myself. I ate crap, i was lazy and slept my days away. About 4 months ago i started my journey in loving my body, i fueled my body with food to give me energy not to make me temporally happy, i started doing hot yoga to connect with my mind and soul and i started to get up every morning sometimes at 430am and went to the gym because it always made me sooo happy and feel amazing, since this journey i have lost 40lbs and i am starting to LOVE myself and my body. I have started to impact other peoples lives and be an inspiration !! This isnt a diet for me anymore this is a life style i love to live.
I am going to eat without distractions and maybe cut out more food that i truly doing enjoy but i eat anyways. Today i am going to go walk and sit and watch the sunsets over the moutains. Ladies, we all need to have some fun !! Lets do this,
Ellen
Ezurawell (instagram)
Wow! It’s amazing that I am not alone in my feelings and statements that I say to myself. That in itself is very helpful.
As for the relationship with my body. I hate it. My body doesn’t keep up with what I want to do. I am exhausted and in pain. My clothes don’t fit right and this is a fairly new struggle for me. I didn’t have to worry about my weight until after I had my children. My husband adores me and is always right by my side throughout all of my struggles but he wants to fix me and that doesn’t work. I need to work on me not him working for me.
My one fun thing for today. Instead of planting myself in the couch with my iPad tonight. I am going to grab my kids and husband and go down and walk the river walk and watch the sunset. We have some very beautiful sunsets that I take for granted every night. Time to start enjoying them again.
Sarah I was so in tune with what you were saying my relationship with food is purely emotional I know i need to get things to be happy but because I’m miserable I eat more … well no more … I constantly say to myself I am not the person I used to be I used to have fun and be happy and I realise now that the only thing that is stopping that is me!! I have loved the build up to the challenge and especially loved seeing all the amazing pictures of beautiful women on facebook and now that the challenge has started I’m loving that too.. so here goes for my fun today which is actually going to be this evening because I’m watching the video late in the afternoon is 2 things which I can never be bothered to do anymore and that is walk my dog with my 6 year old daughter … I let her dad do it and also to bath her and just be silly like we used to be when she was little. And I vow from this day forward that the TV will be off for every meal that we have whether that is breakfast lunch or dinner because we don’t talk like we should. So thank you Sarah #livemorechallenge
I don’t like my body AT ALL! I feel short and fat. I have tried all the diets going and nothing works and then I just continue to beat myself up as its my fault the diet hasn’t work (my negative thinking)
I never feel good enough when with friends and put myself down all the time.
For fun today, I am going to spend some quality time with my 12 year old son whilst my daughter is away on residential with school. He can choose whatever we do.
Great video. I could relate to it on so many levels. I have always struggled with my body image and weight and have spent most of my life trying to achieve what I would consider a perfect body type, yet at each stage I never fully appreciated the body I did have. I look back at pictures after years and see at some points I did have what I would consider the “perfect” body but now it’s changed and I want that body back. I never took advantage of or appreciated my body during those moments, I always felt it wasn’t good enough. I also always put having fun on the back burner. I need to make it a priority. I always say I want to do more or take different classes but I never end up doing it then the years fly by me. Today I am going to set up my sewing machine finally after a year and create the blanket I planned to make a year ago. I am also going to sign myself up for the dance class I have always wanted to take. Thank you for the video and inspiring women to value and cherish their bodies and loves.
I have struggled with my weight my whole life. The last year has been the hardest on me and I have definitely put myself on the back burner due to some family issues. I am finding that I want to feel better for me and to be a healthy and positive role model for my kids . I don’t get much time to myself because I have a young family so I would love to go on a walk and get out into nature for my fun today.
Eating without distractions is such a marvelous idea!!! Tonight my family will sit together at the table to eat and there will be no electronics on to distract.
Current relationship with body: gaining a little weight as I am tired & stressed due to punishing work schedule.
For fun today? Some slee, a nice bath & watch a great movie ?
I have been over weight my whole life – I did loose quite a lot of weight for my wedding 2 years ago… I was finally in the ‘healthy range’ with my BMI, I managed to keep most people of that weight off, until living through a very stressful period a few months ago. I feel like I have let myself down and feel frumpy and fat.
Watching this video has made me realise that I don’t have much fun. I have great friends and an amazing husband, but I need more quality time with them. I feel like I need fun seperate to them though too, I’m often home alone and that makes me feel sad bored and lonely.
Today for fun, I’m going to blast one of my favourite songs and dance round my bedroom. I feel inspired to look for a local dance class.
I will definitely try eating mindfully, I often eat whilst watching tv and I don’t think I taste any of it!!
Since having children I feel like my body hasn’t been my own & I don’t recognise the person in the mirror.I’m continually trying to find the next ‘thing’ to loose weight (oh the amount of money & time I’ve wasted)!! Like Sarah says I think if I’m thinner my life will be better & I’ll be happier – everything will be happily ever after. It’s totally exhausting thinking about losing weight all the time!
For fun I’m going to head to my favourite markets and find some design inspiration (and hopefully some nice things for me)?
The hardest part for me is figuring out what might be fun to do-I feel crazy saying that, really. I have the day to myself & can do anything & I have no idea what I’d like to do!
1. For the longest time I hated myself and it was mostly due to my weight (or so I thought). I was like you, I thought that if I could just lose the weight I would be happy but I was so wrong. A couple of years ago, I sought treatment for depression and anxiety and since then, my happiness and body image have change so much for the better. I love myself so much more and couldn’t care less if I lost a pound or not except that I want to be healthier. I want to have more energy to play with my daughter.
2. I’m not sure what exactly I’ll do but I’m sure it will involve playing with my daughter.
Wow, one of the single most powerful things I took from this video (and the support groups) is I’m not alone in feeling this way!
As for my relationship with my body, it’s not great. I have always had battles with my weight since I was a teen – various diets throughout the years (including just not eating at all!) It depresses me (and quite frankly pees me off) that it takes sooooooo long to lose weight and the blink of an eye for me to put it on. In turn this does at times affect my relationship with my husband, who tells me I need to get my head checked out so I can start seeing myself the way he does – but it’s just not that simple…………….is it?
So one fun thing today just for me, the weather is absolutely beautiful and instead of working through my lunch break like I normally do, and be stuck sitting ALL day – I went for a walk, just me – no phone, no music – just ME. And I’ll tell you something it was amazing! And I feel more awake too!
As for eating without distractions – this is going to be a pretty novel experience (apart from Christmas or meals out!) but I have just informed the kids that dinner will be at the table every night from now on – they are both so excited!
So good luck to everyone – and I’ll keep you posted!
Currently I hate my body. I have a gym membership, a full gym in my basement, two 2 week cleanses, and the 21 day fix. I don’t use any of them. I wanted the quick fix to “happy”. I can’t even start cause I’m not happy with me. I’m starting to like me again and with that I started to work out today for me and I feel good.
I have struggled with my weight since I was a little girl, I am what I guess one would call a “fluctuater”. I always have been and probably always will be. As for the fun portion of things I’m not the best at that, friends will always plan things that wind up being fun but I seem to lack the capability to plan fun things just for me. I have always loved to sing and I have unfortunately pushed that aside for so long. I guess today for fun I will pull out some karaoke (cheesey, but fun nonetheless lol).