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I have been working on my body image for about 3 years now. Prior to that there was very little love between my body and I. Since then, I lost a lot of weight, but still continue to work on loving my body as it is today and enjoying the time I have with it, and the amazing things it is capable of (birth, lifting heavy things, playing with my kids). I need reminders like this video to slow down, have fun, and enjoy the things I do with my body and the food I put in my mouth. Thanks Sarah. For fun today, I am going to boot camp – I work out mostly on my own so to do it with a group of like-minded women is a treat for me! And mindful eating is so important when you have a busy schedule and kids evening activities. Making time to sit, eat and discover what we truly like/dislike in terms of food is critical to our own health and the health of our children. I’m going to work on this as we often scarf down our food in front of the TV before one or both kids have to head off to their activities. I’ll let you know how it goes 🙂
Your message connects with me deeply. I haven’t ever really felt comfortable or confident inside my own skin and it trickles into every part of my life. I’m ready for a change! For fun today, I am going to take a stroll – not a walk with purpose or intention but simply a stroll to enjoy the view along the way. Sounds simple but it’s not something I’ve ever done! I ate a snack without distraction today and it was…weird. Different. But good. I really did taste my food more and put more thought into it. I was also able to enjoy my surroundings more and appreciate the moment. Thanks Sarah!
My current struggle with my body is learning to appreciate what it CAN do rather than what it can’t do.
Today, I’m going to paint my toenails a vibrant green, just for fun!
My struggle with my body is that I hate it. I hate the way it looks I hate the way it lets me down. But I’m moving forward starting new challenges and learning to appreciate all the goods things it can do.
I am going to a workout class tonight in the hope of making some new friends.
1. My #1 struggle with my body has been being able to look in the mirror at it and liking it. I never have.
2. Since the day is almost over something fun I am going to do tonight is go for a walk with my dog Papi a longer walk and not walk for exercize at a fast past but walk for leisure, look around at the scenery, talk to neighbors that may be out, look at the clouds, etc… not look at my phone and read facebook or instagram etc.
I have a post-baby belly… and have for 3 years, made more prominent by having a second child in that time, just after coming to terms with the little panza I had after my son. Now, that pancita has turned into a little bit larger belly, and it feel like it’s the only part of me what won’t go back or “get fixed”. (one year postpartum with #2) I’m happy/not happy depending on the time of day, and the day of the week.I’m not tiny, never have been, never will be. I’m 5’10” and healthy. I’ve been 125 lbs, and that’s not pretty. i don’t know what i weigh now, i don’t want to know. i want to be happy in my skin, in front of my husband, in front of my mirror. And I’ll get there.
Food is fun for me, I love cooking,eating, feeding others. And I’m conscious of what I’m putting into my body and everyone else’s. Food (and the preparation and presentation of it) is my therapy.
today’s fun is a baseball game with the kids and husband. kind of spontaneous since tickets just became available. Go Chihuahuas!
I typed out a whole big thing, and then it wouldn’t submit, so I’m writing the condensed version.
Basically I’ve struggled with weight, body image, and self love for as long as I can remember. I grew up thinking something was wrong with me because my mom took me to weight classes and doctors’ offices starting when I was 8. I was teased and bullied as a kid. As a young adolescent and into my young adulthood, I was surrounded with caring and loving friends, but that didn’t solve all my issues with myself. I was always thinking, “Well if I can just lose weight THEN I will be able to live the life I always wanted, THEN someone might love me, THEN I can be happy.” A while ago I realized that I only have this one life, and I need to start living NOW. I have been starting to work on loving myself as I am and feeling confident it that. It’s a slow process, but I’m making progress 🙂
Today for fun I am going to reconnect with playing music. I have not picked up my instruments in so long thanks to a grueling grad program and my busy job, but today, I will pause and take part in something that brings me joy. 🙂
I used to be a stick thin lanky girl… and i hated my body! I was teased and made fun of because i had no shape, i was boney and looked like an anorexic bag of bones. I hated my body… so i turned to food as a way of coping and dealing with the emotions that followed me around. Very soon i began to take shape, i become more rounded and full figured and i started to like my body. But, my emotional eating habits had taken hold and it became difficult to stop myself. Years of eating emotionally had carved itself deep into my everyday life style habits and it has been a battle to fight it! Now i am more than 30kgs overweight according to my bmi and i still hate my body. I always thought that once i lose the weight i will be able to start living my life and i will be happy. Since signing up to ur challenge i have discovered that in order to weigh less and change my eating habits, i need to start living NOW!! and be happy now! Since signing up two weeks ago, i have written a list of things i want to do by the end of the year. I have struggled with anxiety and leaving the house has been difficult for me. I was afraid to go for a walk or to the park or even to the grocery store by myself. I was always afraid people would stare and judge me. However, last week i took it upon myself to organise a team of four friends to attend a quiz night event at a local pub. I arranged to meet them there… i was early and found myself standing in a crowded bar surrounded by a bunch of strangers… alone… with no one to turn to. I walked up to the bartender, ordered a drink, and took a seat. For the first time in 10years i was sitting alone.. in a public place
. And it felt surreal. .. yet it felt so good! After about 10mins the rest of the team showed up and we were taken through to the quiz lounge next door. We had such a great night! We came last! But it didn’t matter.. because we had so much fun!!! 🙂 Today, i am going for a 5km walk down past the beach and i will be alone… armed with my headphones and music.. and i will be okay! Tonight we are heading to another quiz night for more laughs and lots more fun!! I can do this! I wish i had realised this sooner! I have been living in fear for too long! Sarah, You are such an inspiration to us all and i want to thank you for this opportunity to finally learn to love myself and my body and to break free from the psychological barriers that have surrounded myself. To all you other ladies out there… we can do this! ! Keep ur head held high and keep up the great work! ! 🙂 xx
I have some nerve damage around my spinal cord that has been slowly developing over the last 20 yrs. It causes me a lot of pain and has significantly decreased my activity levels. I don’t the like the changes this has made to my body.
I’m a single mum of 5 and I loved the body I had both before and after each pregnancy. For me it is more the connection between my increasing limitations and my shape.
Around 6 months ago after being single a(nd yes celibate) for 15 yrs for some unknown reason I joined a dating site. The disaster of that has actually prompted me to get out and start having fun again.
This challenge has come to me at a point in my life where I have begun to reclaim me.
I am struggling with not being there as much for my children. But .. my youngest is 15 the others in their 20’s .. They keep reminding me that I was on my own when I was 17 and it is ok for me to go away for a weekend and not worry about them.
I have the support of my family and friends in everything that I do .. some days I need reminder to feed the drive I need. This is what I hope to gain here.
I always loved lifting weights and going to the gym .. I have joined a gym but until now have only been doing cardio. Today I will lift .. and I can’t wait.
Cheryl
I’m similar to you Sarah. I became aware that I was “different” as a child, particularly in dance classes where all the other girls were very thin and skinny and I looked like a lump in the mirrors. By the end of high school, I felt I could never look good and developed a bad relationship with food, mostly binging on chocolate at school.
At university my eating became a disaster and I was also diagnosed with PCOS, meaning I put on weight easily and it takes more to lose it. I put on 2st and was crying in the mirror and hated everything I put on.
But recently I met a friend with similar problems and together we were trying to beat the demons through weight loss classes and diets. Soon we were breaking rules and moaning about putting the weight back on. But then we came across your way of thinking and now we’re really trying to break old habits and love ourselves as we are. It’s slow work but we’re getting there!
My biggest issue has been comparing my body to an “ideal” so trying to love it now is a revelation! And since it’s late here in the UK, my fun thing will be strumming my guitar for a little while before I go to bed. I love playing it but hardly ever pick it up anymore.
Currently my struggle with my body is learning to trust it again after being diagnosed with breast cancer in April.
Today I really enjoyed spending time with my daughter I am so proud of the woman she is becoming
I have always struggled with my weight or people having a problem with my weight more then myself. In turn I have low self esteem. I am now in the process of getting over all the problems I was told I have.
Today I am going out to lunch with a friend and our daughters. It has been a few weeks since we have gotten together. Cava here we come.
My biggest struggle with my body as been recovering from injuries that stopped me from exercising how I had previously. I’ve had to listen to my body more, of what it is and isn’t capable of, but most importantly to persevere as I notice the benefits of remaining active. I also realised that exercising with friends is a lot more enjoyable – classes are great as you can support each other and have a really good laugh at the same time!
Today (actually it will be tomorrow, as I watched the video this evening), for fun, I will catch up with a few long-standing friends that I haven’t talked to in a while! Have fun everyone! Xx
My body has been struggling with extra weight for my entire life. As a kid I was always larger, although not in an unhealthy way. However, it did make me very self conscious and I had low confidence throughout college and beyond. It’s still a battle. Once I moved out on my own, was broke and walked everywhere, I lost a ton of weight. Didn’t know what to do with myself, I was still miserable. I had bad relationship after non existent relationship. One day, at 26, I told myself I deserved better. I started dating myself, doing things I love, and getting to know me. Well, it worked. A friend of mine and I connected in a way I’d always hoped, now we’ve been married 9 years, in 2 weeks. However, he started feeding me, I broke my arm, I quit smoking, I lost my mom after a 15 year fight with brain cancer. To be blunt, I piled on 100+ pounds over a few years. I haven’t been able to break 270 (I’m tall and muscular) in 5+ years. I can’t get a handle on my eating, I just love chocolate and chicken fingers with ranch so much. You are right that I probably don’t actually enjoy them as much as I think I do. I’m on weight watchers now because breaking my tailbone and having it surgically removed has left me lazy, fat and stuck. I feel like I’m getting bigger everyday. I do need fun. I love my husband and we have a blast together but he’s a fireman with a second job so I’m alone a lot. I’m just starting to drive and walk again, after 9 months, so I’m just lost. I don’t know what to do with myself. I don’t know how to define fun for me anymore. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up (I’m 37 in 12 days.) I was babysitting before the fall but I still can’t lift babies. Just telling you this makes me cry. So, in short: I really need this program!
For fun, I really want to go sit by the water and write. I did that a month ago and it was amazing. Tonight I really need to spend time with my husband, as he works the next two days and four nights, between two jobs. I also hurt a lot after running errands all day, so our fun will be snuggling and a movie. Still fun ❤ But tomorrow, while he is at work, I WILL go to the water and write, read, relax. I’m looking forward to focusing on my food too; it sounds promising and logical. Thank you thank you thank you ❤❤❤
1. The number one struggle with my body is my stomach. My daughter just turned three and I still have a protruding belly. Other people tell me that it’s not that big, but for me, having been thin prior to having her, it’s been a struggle to accept that body will not be the same as it was before her. I had really negative body image issues for about the first 2 years after having her. I’m starting to emerge from that now though.I think this challenge will really help me to fully break free from that.
2.For fun today, I’m going to color! I love coloring. I think the repetition of the back and forth movement is really soothing to me. It’s such a calming activity for me.
3. I struggle with this one for real. This will be a challenge for me because I often eat while working or talking on the phone. I will for sure do this on Thursday when I’m off work and then work this into my schedule.
Tears and crying watching this video…I’m 57 years old and Sarah’s words were the most truth I’ve felt around this constant struggle that I’ve been on for…I don’t know…45 years or more…I think I will go play with our new puppy for fun… Thank you for listening…
Hi there!
I enjoyed the video! I feel this hits the nail on the head for me. I believe I have been emotionally eating due to having a miscarriage last year at 18 weeks. After my first pregnancy with my son, who is now 2, I had lost about 80 pounds and then started on a health and fitness journey to bettering myself after he was born. I found out I was expecting again last year in Aug. Then had a miscarriage in November 2015 that landed me in a depression. I was ultimately so lost, and didn’t know how to process my feelings. I didn’t know I was doing it at the time, but I started to eat bad foods again. I have now gained 30 pounds back from where I was when u got pregnant. It makes me feel really disappointed in myself for falling back into old habits after I had come so far. So, my biggest struggle today would be not loving myself to be fully happy again. To let go and let God. To be tied up in this constant battle in my mind if failure. It’s a constant battle to eat healthy. I’m hoping this challenge helps me overcome even a little bit of this war in my mind.
For fun today, I redecorated my workout room. I added motivational pictures to my walls from hobby lobby & added color to make it more inviting to workout! I enjoy decorating (and working out), so this had my spirits lifted! Thank you!
My current relationship with my body is acceptance. I am working hard on accepting how it’s shaped and finding gratitude in how much it does for me. I am have always thought if my body was different I would have a better life, job, and more fun.
For fun today, I will give a gift kindness to a stranger and then swing at our local park and watch the sunset.
My biggest struggle is I am not happy in my own body. I have never gotten back to my the weight I was prior to having my son. I am an emotional eater and recently this past year became a binge eater in the middle of the night. Especially, when I am super stressed.
Today, I plan on taking my son to the park and teaching him how to ride his first bike.
Struggle is real and everyday. But it’s worth the effort to try each time the struggles attempt to squirm in to destroy the happiness I am experiencing. I’m a very big woman but don’t feel like it or let it get me down. I’m an emotional eater and work on that every moment of each day. Have fun and just enjoy your curves, your surroundings and those you include in it!
Your early life experiences resonated so much with me! My relationship with my body is tumultuous. Since I was very young, I believed how I looked was a significant part of who I was. I always struggled being a little bigger than my peers and the words diet, fat, calories, were all in my vocabulary before I was a teenager. In my early 20s I was my heaviest. When I started keeping a food journal and taking small steps to lose weight it came off. I realized I was unhappy in a marriage and got divorced. For the next several years I maintained at a comfortable weight, but I was never happy with or appreciated my body. There was always something I wished I could firm up, or shrink down. When I had my daughter at 29 my weight shot up to the highest it had ever been. When she was about 6 months old, I knew I didn’t want to live in stretchy pants forever, so I went back to keeping a food log and exercising regularly. The weight came off. Having a child and nursing her gave me a new outlook on my body, and for the first time I felt proud of my body for what it was capable of. But my relationship with food and my body wasn’t healed. I still ate emotionally, felt guilt for what I binged on, shame when my clothes would get too tight. My weight fluctuated a lot and how my clothes felt determined how I felt about who I was as a person (successful when they were loose and a failure when they were tight or I had to buy bigger clothes). A year ago I started to gain weight, and buried my head in the sand about it. At 35 I weighed nearly as much as I did when I have birth to my daughter. The past 6 weeks I have made incredible progress towards healing my relationship with my not just my body but my life. I am eating better because it feels good, and cooking gives makes me feel joy! I began waking up early, when the house is still dark and quiet, and taking time for myself by exercising. I know that I have to treat this journey as something soul healing, not just a means to a goal. The message of living more to fall into my perfect body for this season of my life is so meaningful and important to me. I am committed to this challenge. I am committed to examining the parts of my life that I have been unhappy with for too long so I can stop feeding them and start healing them.
For fun today I will paint a picture with my daughter.
I often make the excuse that I’m too busy to slow down and eat. Or I focus more on making sure others are fed and content before I eat. Recently I have shifted towards eating slower, and choosing more quality foods. The family bought a box of donuts that sat on the counter for a few days. Instead of binging on them, when I looked at them and really thought about how they would taste. I realized I would rather enjoy one really delicious dessert than five of those donuts. So later that week, on a night out celebrating with friends, I ordered a beautiful smores tart. I slowly ate it and enjoyed every moment. Halfway through I realized I felt satisfied with what I had and took the rest home for my family. Proud moment 🙂
I’ve always been Chubby. But in the last 5 years since I moved to London the weight has piled on, it’s at the point where I can’t bear to look at myself and sometimes stay in because I hate the world to see me like this. So much of what you said resonated with me, I’m definitely putting off living until I loose weight but it never really seems to happen.I didn’t watch this video until kind of late so for fun today I am gonna turn the music up loud and dance around, I love to dance but am too self conscious to do it much so today it the beginning.
For fun: I can sing in my car as loud as I want. Current relationship with body: unhappy.
Current relationship with my body is blah. I go weeks at a time doing really well. Eating healthier than usual, going to the gym 2-3x a week, taking time for just me- wine and my favorite netflix but then it all stops and I get in a rut. It is a forever cycle that I notice when I am stressed at work- my love for my body goes away. Something fun today- I want to take a walk outside, feel the sunshine on my face and for 10 minutes let the stress go away.
I struggle with chronic lower back pain after a failed spinal fusion. The more active I am, the more. pain I experience. However, I also know that if I would just exercise more, eventually my pain might lessen.
I am home sick today so for fun I will nurse my body and work on the puzzle that hubby and I have been trying to finish.
My number one struggle with my body has been not feeling happy, even when I have been at my ideal weight. I know I eat for comfort, in times of stress, boredom, and times of change. Watching this video made me realize I don’t really make time for ANY fun for myself. Today I am going to plant some tulip bulbs in my garden even though I have no idea how to garden and hope they grow!
Hi I really enjoyed yr video. So glad that I’ve found you. Ok well I’ve prob just a normal ish size bit over weight. I don’t like it. I always want it to be better but fail miserably. So here we go. For fun now as it’s late at night I’m gunna watch Sex and the city. I love the programme. I do need more fun in my life always busy. And am really gunna eat with out distraction. Love this and I’m gunna share this wonderful thing with my friends. Thank you so much Sarah xxx
I was waiting to be thinner to start running. So I wouldn’t damage my body as I blabbed around but a friend challenge me to do the British Heart Foundation My Marathon during September where you run 26.2 miles throughout the month.i have wanted to do a marathon for so long here was a way I could do one. I started a ‘couch to 5K’ app and ran my first ‘park run ‘ last Saturday. I was third from last but so chuffed I’d completed it. Today, for fun, I ran the #RunForestRun 3K in my local forest and according to my strava app I am second in the world at this run! . That makes me smile. I wore my day-glo Lycra and achieved greatness! Fun fun fun.
Emotional eating has been my problem. It was fairly easy to control weight gain until my pregnancy with my twins threw off my thyroid and adrenals. It took me a while to figure out what exactly the problem was. In that time of waiting and gaining, I lost a lot of motivation and got very frustrated with my body(like it had turned on me). So I am on my journey to treat my body and myself better. Today I am going to walk with my dogs out in our pasture for fun
I stress eat all the time lately. I’m in a love/hate relationship with work and totally stressed. Sometimes I inhale food. I’ve gained weight in the last few months and am totally uncomfortable with my body.
I have an appointment in a few hours by the beach so I am going to play tourist for a while before then to have fun. I love to travel and I love San Diego so fun is going to come pretty easy the next few days.
I look forward to listening to more of your tapes. Not looking too much forward to the next one as I am not in a romantic relationship nor very interested in one while I’m as stressed as I am.