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I was a beautiful chubby baby and grew into chubby child. In my teens I thinned out a bit but I was never small like my cousins, friends or siblings. I wasn’t overweight but I always felt big. I look back at pictures now and think how crazy those thoughts were. I was OK with being the “big” friend and have never dieted and exercise made me cringe. I was quite athletic and played on volleyball teams and was even a cheerleader but organized exercise…no thanks. Anyway, in my 30s I was working at a job that was very physical and I quickly developed a 6 pack and had people telling me how tiny I was. It was weird to hear. Then when I hit my 40s menopause hit and I started gaining weight. My body was shifting and I was not happy about that. I wasn’t working, living in a small town with no friends or family(other than mine) and having some difficulties with my marriage. My kids were all old enough not to rely on me anymore and I spiraled into a depression that allowed me to gain even more weight. I realized after spending 2 years depressed that something needed to change so I organized a book club. We have 6 members and I now have friends. I’m still not in love with my new body and I am stuck in that “I’ll have more fun when…” place but I’m starting to see the merits in having fun now. Today I went to visit one of my book club friends and we had coffee, talked, laughed and planned our next adventure. It is always fun to have a good laugh. Tomorrow I’m getting together with another girlfriend and her 2 year old. Always fun when kids are involved!!
I lost 4 stones four years ago and it’s all gone back on.I have a wardrobe full of clothes I can’t fit into. I live on my own so although I cook nice meals some of the time it’s often easier to just make something that fills me up. I’m a stress eater too. Big style. Being overweight makes me feel unattractive and unfeminine. I feel like people judge me and watch what I eat. I feel like a disappointment to myself and to my family.
It’s late now so for fun I’m going to dance in my living room.
My current relationship with my body is about an 8 out of 10. I have learned over the last 3-4 painful years after an emergency hysterectomy and being diagnosed with hypothyroidism and Hashimotos disease what to put in my body to make it feel good. But it was a LONG, HARD learning process where I was a shell of a person for almost 2 years. I was majorly depressed and didn’t feel in control of my body. I hated myself for not being able to be productive and present in my life and for my family. My diet (along with the right dosage of thyroid medicine) was the answer. Simple.
But not simple… I still want(ed) the foods that were/are bad for me.It’s a constant struggle to choose to put the “good” into my mouth and body. If I don’t, I might be down physically and emotionally for a couple days- over 1 meal!!! It’s sooo not worth it, yet sometimes I still choose it. I beat myself up for it.
The thing I want to do for fun today is take my dog to the dog park and walk the loop with him. It is a beautiful day and I’m super busy, but I’ve decided to give myself at least 30 min of fresh air and sunshine 🙂
I have had a difficult relationship with my body for most of my life. I have been anorexic, over weight, just right, 15 lbs too many right now. I have learned to be ok with it since starting a very dedicated yoga practice. My biggest problem is that I LOVE sugar! My brain lights up at the thought of it. I decided to join the challenge because I am very type A, and I forget to add fun and spontaneity to my life. Looking forward to the next few weeks!
I think my struggle is actually thinking about my body and about nurturing myself. I don’t really remember what I did for fun before I became a mom and now I struggle with carving out time for myself. I feel guilty that I am not finding balance, because I don’t work, I feel ashamed because I should be doing more.
I think to day for fun I’m going to not feel bad about anything, play with my son and my dog, maybe get a head start on tomorrow’s lipstick challenge.
I have had trouble with accepting my body, whether I am overweight or in a normal sized body. For years I have either working on getting thin or observing myself getting fat. Now, I just want to get to a place where I am comfortable in my body and I’m not constantly obsessing and talking about weight and food.
Today, for fun, I am going to rent a boat with my son and go out on Lake Tahoe with our German Shepherd in tow. We did this once before several years ago. Also, I am on vacation after 2 years without one!
My current relationship with my body is a tug of war of frustration. I was at my healthiest when I got married and loved life. I gained a significant amount of weight with my first pregnancy and continued to gain after thanks to supplements for milk production and a battle with postpartum depression and anxiety. I started to get healthy again but due to a very stressful second pregnancy and a second episode of postpartum depression I did not lose the baby weight. I work out, eat well and still do not lose. I am aware that there is something medical and am looking into that. It is beyond frustrating to be doing everything “right” be losing inches and never a pound. It’s hard to stay positive when the focus is always on my weight. I remember how comfortable I used to feel in my own skin and I miss that.
Tonight for fun I am going to take my kids outside to play and after they are in bed I am going to craft and make a couple of things for myself. I’m always making for others and that makes me happy but I rarely make a gift for me.
My current relationship with my body is one of doing the work to love and accept her as she is. 10 years ago I experienced an injury that left me bedridden for a year and a half and as a result I gained a lot of weight. I hated my body and I quickly fell into a struggle of dieting and binging followed by lots of guilt and self-loathing. But this year is all about healing my mindset and my body.
Today, for fun, I will dance. Dance is something that brings me tremendous joy, but I had convinced myself that I needed to lose the extra weight before I did it again.
Also, today I left the tv off and put all devices away while eating and I found myself really taking pleasure in my food and feeling grateful that I’m able to afford high quality, healthful foods. I love that! ❤️
Although I was a healthier weight when I was younger, with each child and every year, I simply got heavier and heavier. About 4 years ago, through a routine of walking and better eating habits, I lost about 50 pounds, but an illness and subsequent life events halted the loss and I began putting pounds on again slowly. This April, my husband of almost 26 years passed away suddenly and my weight has skyrocketed as a result. I’m very unhappy with myself in pictures, yet realize that I’m more forgiving of others than myself. I need to get a handle on the overeating / mindless eating and know I’m using food to fill the void, yet am struggling to even care enough to stop. If this weather holds out, I’d like to dance in the rain for fun today as that is something I’ve always enjoyed as it reminds me of my childhood.
This resonates with me a lot. I have a pretty rubbish relationship with my body and have spent most of my life of the Jekyll and Hyde rollercoaster “oh I’m fed up with being fat and unhealthy I’m going to exercise every day and not eat beige cack every again” cut to after dinner that night, knowing my husband has bought a treat for himself saying ” baby can I have some of that ice-cream you just bought”. Then before I finished the bowl I would be upset with myself again. I didn’t watch the video till I got home after work, so haven’t planned anything so tonight I’ll give myself an hr before bed just to read ?
Like you I have struggled with my weight since I was a child. I have done a lot of growing and learning in the last 5 or so years as I worked on myself. I like to think that my body doesn’t bother me, but it does. I have started to add more fun into my life over the last year or so. I have way too much going on right now, I am in school full time (I finish this week!!) I work a full-time job, I have a daughter in high school and a husband that just went back to school, and I’m starting my own business. So to say I’m busy is not an understatement. You have been such an inspiration to me.
For fun tonight instead of homework or working on my business I am going to take the night off and enjoy my family.
I have recently realized on my own some of the things you discussed in today’s video. I have now stopped getting on the scale and berating my self. I just don’t get on the scale at all. I try to make healthy choices in my life. I did buy flowers for myself yesterday, and they are on my desk making me happy every time I look at them. For fun today, I will walk home from work. Thanks, Sarah.
Today I am going to listen to my favorite podcast and paint ❤️
My journey has been a roller coaster full of tremendous loss and grief-eating. My current weight is still 20 lbs below my heaviest, but stress coupled with the weight is now causing me physical pain and health issues. It’s just crucial to me that I get to a place of more physical comfort.
Thank you all for your stories.
My number one issue with my body is disappointment. I have lost hundreds of pounds in the last 30 years only to gain hundreds more back. Four years ago I thought I had the golden ticket, lost 45 pounds, felt amazing, down to single digit clothing, eating good food, surrounded by friends and an active fun life. Than my parents got ill one at a time and they both past away in a matter of 2 years, I found my job was riddled with negative people and a manager that I did not respect, on top of that my children were on paths that I didn’t envision for them (my daughter a destructive one and my son a reclusive one). The stress, the lack of love for myself, the huge changes in my life, along with disappointment led me to self soothing, aka binge drinking and eating junk. Recently I left that negative work environment, I am coming to terms with my parents gone, my children grew wings and are starting to fly, now I need to figure out who I really am at 46 years old. It’s time to be proud I made it through so much turmoil instead of disappointed that I gained 50 pounds. I’ve hidden myself out if shame for too long. Today, for fun, I’m going to treat myself to something pretty to wear. I’m tired of hiding in baggy t-shirts and saggy pants. When my husband gets home, I’ll surprise him by looking like I care about myself and we’ll stroll around town a bit, hopefully find some live music to enjoy.
My number one struggle is that I have CFS/ ME and Fibromyalgia so the struggle that I’ve had with my weight has been multipled a hundred times I’ve gained back so much weight because I can no longer excercise. I’m working on healthy eating and loving the body I’m in. Meditation and Mindfulness has been helping as well. I’m so happy to have found this challenge as this really speaks to where I’m at in my journey.
My struggle with my body has been about being fat. And to me, it’s not the easily passable and hideable fat, but the kind that sits on my stomach and makes strangers ask me when I’m due (I’m not). I’ve lost weight before with WW, and I’ve put it right back on when I get tired of planning out every piece of food that will enter my mouth a week in advance. As the years have passed and the clothing sizes grown, it’s gotten worse as I see more chin showing up, more arm swing… I don’t want to be a size zero- I would settle for a size 14 that feels confident in front of her husband or just in front of anyone, period!
For fun today, I am going to play with my daughter. I am working full time and in night classes for 7 weeks, so my time today is extremely limited (I’m watching this video on my lunch break, so guilty for eating lunch at the same time), but I can carve out 20 minutes to just sit and play toys with my daughter without distraction.
My relationship with my body isn’t great. My weight yoyo’s up and down and my will power is poor. I work long hours so my fun activity for today was waiting to come home and watch this video! I’ve been looking forward to doing something for me all day! I regularly eat at my desk while checking emails. That stops now!
Hi, looking forward to learning more. My relationship with my body is a bit love hate. I gained weight after leaving uni. I was unemployed for a long while and in a crap relationship,so i wasn’t happy. Since then I’ve been on and off diets, some of which worked really well, but the weight always came back and brought a few extra pounds with it for good measure.
Eating without distraction is something I’ve struggled with, so I really want to try harder at that this time.
What will I do for fun? Hmm. Well the dog is nosing me to play at the moment, so I’m going to play her up a bit and then I’ll do some painting.
Good luck everyone x
My number 1 struggle is mindless eating at night when I’m tired but should be in bed but can’t turn off my mind.
I’ve been embracing fun in the past year, so I’ll have no problem with that! But I think today I’ll focus on having fun with my son – maybe playing baseball with him.
I have never thoroughly loved my body. I was told at a young age that I was “big boned”. My mom frequently made comments to me about how my feet were big like my grandma’s or that I had huge breasts like my Aunt.Growing up, I knew, as did everyone else, that my mom despised these women. I was given hand me down clothing from cousins 10 years older than me and they never fit because I was shaped differently. I always felt frumpy and hated my body. I don’t remember not thinking I needed to lose weight, even looking back at pictures of when I was 140-150 lbs and healthy. Now at 220 and 3 years postpartum, I am about 50 lbs over what I was when I had my son. I have been working with a trainer since March and am on an eating plan which doesn’t leave me hungry, though it restricts some foods. I have never been one to eat large quantities of anything and have always been active. I am learning to love my body more. I am learning to accept the new shape my body has since nurturing a baby. My husband supports me “working on me” but is a foodie and frequently will cook things I don’t eat or will ask me to go out to eat to restaurants that are “off plan”. This increases my anxiety sometimes. I watched this video and all I could think about what going to Starbucks to get a coffee because I am tired. And it is 12:16 in the afternoon. I am at work.
My #1 struggle with my body is just being overly critical and not being able to appreciate it for what it is. I was an overweight child and was always the butt (no pun intended) of jokes growing up. This led to a constant negative perception of my body. It’s gotten better in my adult years, but still a struggle.
One of my favorite things is singing. I love singing along with the radio and doing karaoke. Not sure I can go do karaoke today, but I’m planning to turn on some music during my daughter’s naptime and belt out a few tunes. 🙂
My relationship with my body is an unhappy one at present. I’m just finishing (on Thursday!) a postgraduate degree alongside working full time as a psychotherapist. I’m terrible at putting myself and self care first, despite helping my clients to create these healthy habits. I have comfort eaten, eaten for convenience and prioritised work over healthy eating and exercise for at least the last 6 months. As a result I’ve gained about 10lbs and feel really uncomfortable in my clothes. Everyone around me would say I’m fine as I am, but I feel uncomfortable and unhappy with how I look. I’m definitely someone who eats whilst multitasking, but I’ve done some mindful eating practice previously as part of a retreat (and I can still remember what I ate!)so I will look forward to trying this again.
My fun thing for today will be to go shopping for fresh ingredients and cook something healthy, have a bubble bath & catch up on my favourite tv series. Thanks for giving me permission to have a break & restore in deadline week!
Hayley x
Very inspirational and spoke straight to me as I’ve lost the weight i want (well almost) but I’m still not magically happier, however I’m starting to add fun to my life and I get it!
2.I’m off to pick up a friend to go see another friend 2nite for a good girly catch up, we always have fun together!
Im looking forward to eating without distraction!
I have a love/hate relationship with my body. I have my whole life. Sometimes I look at myself and I see the most beautiful person, and the weight does not even bother me. And then other times, I could hide who I am…I hate the way I look. I wish I was someone else. I have never been thin. I have always wanted to be. But I have always lived my life. I have run a marathon, I have joined a writing club. I have changed my career, been married, been divorced, had two kids. I love to dance. I mediate, I dream, and yes I still wish I could be thin….maybe someday I will. Most of all, I just wish for once and for all, I would be okay with myself. That I would deem myself worthy of all that I dream.
Today for fun, I am going to a friend’s house to see her brand new kitchen and to partake in some great girl talk…something I have not done in a while. I love the magic of friendship!
My relationship with my body has been one of comparison to others since about age 9… While watching the Miss America pageant on TV, I was told by a loved one that I would “never be Miss America” because one of my body parts was too big. Since that time, I have always felt sub-par to other, smaller women and this constant comparison (and at times, loathing of my body) has haunted & consumed me well into my adult life. How this manifests into over-eating I’m not sure, and I’m not sure if it is even the root cause, but I have been overweight for years which means that the tendency to feel “not good enough” has been with me for a long time.
For fun today, I am going to take a walk today while listening to some of my favorite music. It’s a gorgeous September day here and I never regret excusing myself from my other tasks to get moving outdoors.
I dieted off and on as a teenager (and of course look back now and see actually i looked totally fine!) And then dieted again through my twenties. Between 30-35 I had 3 children and my body completely changed. I didn’t really loose the baby weight and my life got smaller and harder (and richer – my kids are fantastic!) But i spent so much time putting everyone else’s needs before mine and now I feel quite lost. But i refuse to diet any more (as you say it doesn’t make sense. I have gone back to sewing some of my own clothes in prints that make me happy! In fact i made myself a skirt today with orange-pink telephones on it and I plan to wear it with my red lipatick tomorrow. I need to pay attention during my lunches because though we all eat together at breakfast and dinner lunch is much more haphazzard and i don’t always feel great afterwards. But ever since i signed up for this challenge i felt different – i am making actually living my life a priority and i already feel much more peaceful around food. So thank you so muh for this.
1. I have struggled with my weight since I was a young girl. I am an emotional eater and it shows which has in turn, made me treat my body worse even though it is my mindset I need to work on.
2. Sit outside and either do nothing but enjoy the beautiful weather or read depending on my mood.
3. Ironically, I watched this video while eating at my desk at work. However, it was better than working and eating. Will have to check back in after I try. 🙂 xo
My relationship with my body is one filled with unhappiness and anger.. I realize by trying to control my weight I have lost self esteem in the process. My fun activity today is going to be to put my favorite radio station on an dance…
The number one struggle for me with my body has been stress/emotion eating, i eat based off how my current mood is. I too have struggled to drop the weight, but im wanting to drop weight to feel better and be healthy not just to look good. For the fun part i will need to seriously consider what i will do because i work 60 hours a week as of now, fun to me will probably be grabbing a bottle of wine on my way home and kicking back and watching netflix or doing a home pedicure with my mother in law. Actually that sounds like a lot of fun now that i mention it. Im so excited to be on this journey with you sarah and with every other woman !
I HAVE HAD TWO BABIES IN THREE YEARS…AND MY BODY HAS CHANGED. I EAT ON THE GO RUNNING AFTER TWO TODDLERS. MY PAST WAS FILLED WITH A LONG BATTLE WITH ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA…SO I HAVE NEVER REALLY HAD A GOOD BODY RELATIONSHIP. FOR FUN TODAY…I AM GOING TO SIT WITH MY KIDS AND HAVE A TOTALLY RELAXED MEAL WITH ZERO DISTRACTIONS. ITS NOT MUCH JUST FOR ME…BUT HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE SO FAR.