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My biggest struggle with my body has been accepting it in every stage. I’ve recently been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder, and that on top of the weight makes it hard some mornings just to look in the mirror. Today, I went for a walk and saw hummingbirds and butterflies and just felt lighter in general. I’m looking forward to finding more bliss in my life.
I’m 38 years old and for the first time finally in love with my mind, body and spirit and putting my total well-being first. I spent 33 years either sleep walking for questioning/judging my choices and my path. The last 4 years have been spent in what felt like an endless cycle of depression, anxiety and physical illness – what I now realize and call my Descent into the Underworld. This period is now my most precious time of my life as it has given me a depth and connection and deeper appreciation of how beautiful life is.. This year, “My Sweet 16”, I have emerged and life is so good and lovely and wonder-filled. Since February I have greatly improved my health and vitality and as a byproduct released 70 lbs. so far. The weight release has really been a journey for me about connecting to myself and being awake, aware and appreciative of all aspects of my life – most especially those that I have taken for granted.
My fun plan for the night I already had but have decided to expand based on this video. My son and I like to draw and color. So he will pick the subject, usually some video game thing like FNAF, PvZ or pokemon, and we will each do our own drawing and color. Then we mail it to an inmate on death row that we are pen pals with. To expand the plans we will either do a dance party or go to the park and play zombie tag… I do like my brains.
For the food portion, I’ve decided to add fun to the mix as well and have us do a living room picnic with my mom and brother joining us.
I totally neglect to eat and take my medicines, excercise, take any care of myself. I live in chronic pain due to whole body Rheumatoid Arthritis since my daughter was just 3months old(9.5years ago). I am currently focused on an Organic Alkaline diet(due to research following my Mothers Lung Cancer Diagnosis). Today I had a surge of energy + did way to much laundry- I am suffering! 🙁 I only just made time for to watch your video at 11.40pm
I hate everything about my body and just wish I could motivate myself to stop eating the wrong foods. I just wish I could enjoy exercise and really tone up. I hate going shopping for clothes and buying tops to cover the top of my arms and always trousers instead of skirts and dresses as I hate my Cankles !! (The term i give as I have no ankles – my calves just join my feet).
I had fun today driving our classic two seater car with the roof down and listening to my favourite music (until the skys turned very grey and rain was on its way) thats the UK weather for you lol!
My body/food issues have been lifelong. I am always on the verge of giving up, but then, I decide to try again. This is again for me. I want to be content with my body, which is not healthy right now. I want to feel good in my clothes and wear a smile every day, and mean it, not be fake. The number one struggle is that this is lifelong. Yo yo, anyone? But I can’t give up. So here I am.
I will have a lovely convo with my hubby and we will laugh together.
Whew! Sarah, your story about your realization about being different than the other girls in your class SO resonates with me! The exception for me is that mine happened really early on in school, probably kindergarten or first grade, maybe even before that. I just always felt like I could never ever be like the other girls – wear a two piece bathing suit, shop at the popular clothing stores, have lots of popular friends, get a boyfriend, etc. Some things I really was limited by regarding my weight and size. I couldn’t run the mile in P.E. I couldn’t climb the monkey bars. These are all things that I vividly remember.
So, as soon as I could talk my mom into taking me to Weight Watchers, I got on their “program”, lost a few pounds, and promptly put it all right back on. I have been on and off of diets my entire life for as far back as I can remember. My parents tried to help, but only succeeded in my feeling worse about myself. Once I grew up and filled my life with things and people that I loved, I did manage to get to what I’d call a version of my ideal body. I didn’t weigh what the doctors recommended, but I felt really good about where I was. I found love, got married, and put on extra pounds.
Now, I’m at the stage where I’m kind of resigned to my size and shape. There are many things I love about my body – the curves, the softness, my height, my boobs :), but there are many things about my size that aren’t working for me. For example, my partner and I want to have a baby, but the birthing center I want to use won’t work with me because my current weight makes me “high risk”. I am committed to being in a healthy body, one that I love and take really good care of, before I get pregnant. I have the desire and a heck of a lot of knowledge about what to do, but I still feel really, really stuck. I guess I’m still looking for that magic pill to make everything suddenly easier!
For fun, one thing that I’m going to do tonight before I go to bed is color! I LOVE to color and create beautiful things. It is something that is totally fun and makes me feel really at peace.
My relationship with my body is one of disgust. I am not at all happy with how I look. I hate looking in the mirror. I hate how my clothes look. I just hate how I feel about me.
I decided that I would go and take a walk and play Pokemon Go. (Yep Imma dork..lol) It was fun and I enjoyed myself. I even caught a Pikachu! Not bad for a yucky rainy day activity. ?
Taking my beach cruiser to the hot yoga studio down the street <3
My #1 struggle with my body is my clothes not fitting and this crazy second stomach roll that appeared 6 months ago (and I’m not preggers)!
My fun thing is reading – I’m going to read a book or magazine or artcile for 30 minutes uninterrupted!
My relationship with my body is a love/hate one, more often than not, closer to the hate level of the spectrum. I struggled a lot with body image growing up, now looking back I have NO IDEA what I was upset about. It’s as though I created the body I had always imagined.
For fun today, I’m meeting up with a friend for a great conversation and some good laughs!
Wow! I’ve been everywhere with my eating. I tend to gain and lose the same 40# over and over again. When I’m at my highest weight, I usually hate myself and when I’m at my lowest weight I usually hate myself as well. Like Sarah, I’ve struggled with my weight since before puberty! At times, I have a lot of self-love and compassion and at others I think I need to lose weight to have a boyfriend and start living the life I really want to live. I love the idea of doing the things you imagine doing with your boyfriend BEFORE having a boyfriend. This time around, I’m following Sarah, Isabel Foxenduke, and Summer Inamen to finally “fix” my issues with food which is mostly getting rid of the idea that I somehow need to “fix” my body AKA restrict my food intake. So far, I’m loving Sarah’s ideas that I can start having FUN and eating mindfully even before I lose the weight!
My relationship with my body is getting better day by day. While it’s frustrating to be sick a lot, to be in pain and to not know how to manage it I am learning to make changes and make sure I take the right medications and vitamins to ensure I’m feeling my best. It’s not anywhere near 100% everyday but we’re working on it. We’re working on pain management and losing more weight. It’s a slow process but it’s worth it in the end. I know once I’m there My health will improve along the way. Tonight I am going to color for fun. It’s very fun, relaxing and stimulating for me.
Hello! I am in the process of healing my relationship with my body. I am so appreciative of all the things she has done for me…up late nights studying during my MBA and early mornings at the office the next day, carry my baby boy safely inside, and running through the airport to catch a late flight. But I’m not there yet! I’m with Amy where I have completely sabotaged myself and my efforts to “get healthy”. I have used food as an affordable indulgence, a distraction and a crutch. I am happy to be on this journey with you all. Eating without distractions made me feel more in tune with my body and when she was felt full. I usually plow right through that part! For fun today, I am going to drive with my windows all the down blasting Beyounce’s Lemonade album while singing along at the top of my lungs through Palm Springs.
My main struggle with my body is my skin. I have constant breakouts & because I hate that, I squeeze the pimple so it will go away quicker. Doing this just makes my skin look worse. Then I try & cover it all with makeup so I can face the world & I eat chocolate to make myself feel better.
Today I will have fun planning a family holiday.
I really loved this video, I could get connected with all the things Sarah said. The second thing I will do for fun is to prepare my own food(I already do my nails and that was the first funny activity). I love eating eggs with vegetables and some lemon juice so I’ll go to the kitchen and prepare my food then I’ll be just with myself eating and enjoying the moment. Thank you so much for this amazing video.
Everyday I try and find something positive and fun to do. Today I am inspired to go to the local botanical gardens for the arvo, take my book and feed the ducks, wander around amongst the flowers and ponds.
I don’t like my body, not sure I have ever liked it in its entirity
As for fun,I really don’t know what I am going to do
Struggled with my weight since I had my first daughter who is now 30 years old!! I lose weight then put it back on! but I’m stuck at a certain weight and can’t seem to lose anymore! I try but always give up, no motivation, I suffer with crippling arthritus and can’t be as physical as i want! I would love to feel the Buzz you get from working out or running, anything physical really, my marriage broke down and I feel fat alone and ugly! I’m nearly fifty and I want to change the way I live my life!!
My first bit of fun today was I went out in the thunder and lightening without a coat got soaking wet but loved every minute, I felt like a child again!!
I totally neglect to eat and take my medicines, excercise, take any care of myself. I live in chronic pain due to whole body Rheumatoid Arthritis since my daughter was just 3months old(9.5years ago). I am currently focused on an Organic Alkaline diet(due to research following my Mothers Lung Cancer Diagnosis). Today I had a surge of energy + did way to much laundry- I am suffering! 🙁 I only just made time for to watch your video at 11.40pm. For self healing fun! I will tune into the promised Remote Reiki Session at 2am GMT anyone else up for that? Just lay down, relax and shift your focus from your mind to your heart for 30minutes. We are in this together. Good Health, Happiness and Solidarity.
My current relationship with my body? Not great–I’ve gained weight since going through a difficult breakup nearly two years ago, and I am judging myself really harshly for using food to self-soothe and fill a void. I have always been an emotional eater (candy is my go-to!) and breaking the cycle of eating-shame-more eating-more shame has been tough. But I know I can do it and really want to get back to a more healthy and centered place FOR ME.
FUN: If I’m being honest, a lot of my fun seems to center around food. Going to brunch with friends, taking a break with colleagues for a treat, or hanging out with my dogs and enjoying a snack. But I enjoy dancing/singing and walking the dogs (when the weather is nice), so tonight I’m going to put on my favorite dance tunes for 15 minutes and go to town!!
Often disgusted at seeing and feeling how big I’ve become.. Bigger and fatter over the last 20 years, more so in last 5 even tho knowing all the heathy alturnatives.. Definitely waiting on the weight till I do anything.. Travel, holidays, tennis, skiing,(now have very sore hips, ankles and back, so feel like I can’t enjoy & scared of injury) trying to look for a relationship(single for years now- hard to break out) even avoid socialising with friends! Hate shopping for clothes- demoralising!
For fun today… Water newly planted trees & wild flowers while looking at the beautiful view… I’d like to be able to go out for a coffee and eat the yummy looking cake I saw the other day (is that bad?) 😉
My struggle is wanting to exercise. I look at my body and don’t like what I see and I know what I should be doing but don’t feel like exercising. For fun today I am going to put on some music and dance and dance and dance!
My journey was a bit different from others..I had a hard time all my life because I was too short to be taken seriously, all the way since childhood. People treated me like I was a little child 4-5 years younger than I really was. It didn’t help that my mother was overprotective and sheltered me from the world.
As I became a gawky preteen, complete with glasses and braces, I was isolated and tormented by my classmates. I was never taught to stand up for myself; therefore, I isolated myself from everyone and became immersed in books.
Once I got into college, I came into myself and had myself a few great years. I met my ex-husband right after graduation and thus a decade of awfulness began. To deal with my stress of dealing with him, I began eating for comfort(emotional eating). I would gain weight and lose periodically.
I eventually divorced him and had to deal with new stresses of being a single working mom of three young children. My weight rose and I became 35-40 lbs overweight. Give or take, that’s where I am today.
I love my body WHEN it’s fit. I wish I could lose the weight to get back to where I was in my college years when I was confident and carefree! I feel like I cannot have fun til I obtain this goal. Not sure why I feel this way!
Today for fun, I will listen to music and perhaps look up some yoga practices online that I can follow tonight as a beginner.
Wow – this is powerful stuff! My struggle is like so many others … overweight kid, turned into an adult who yo-yo dieted FOREVER and in about the last 3 years have come to a place of mostly peace with my body. “Mostly peace” means that I am heavier than BMI charts think I should be, but my health is great, I get regular exercise, have a lovely yoga practice, and really feel great. I wish the medical community would get on board with the BMI/weight as not being the sole indicator of good health. After a recent physical, my doctor went on and on about how great lab work was, and she was pleased. But when she saw that I was about 20 pounds over my ideal weight, she said “But you have to stop eating carbs.” WHY??? I left feeling discouraged, and then realized, hey, losing those 20 pounds may put me at an ideal weight on a chart … but then what? Am I magically happier? Nope. In fact, I’ll be miserable because I will “fail” and eat a cupcake someday. I am working on having a healthier relationship with food.
I struggle with “having fun.” For years I did not get involved in activities because of shame of my weight. I need to dig back up my knitting, because I really enjoy that — but it seems time to try a new craft skill in the winter months ahead!
Thank you for this great series!
I am constantly on a cycle of having a great routine – working out, eating more healthy, feeling energetic, being much happier, acting right and then life happens and I fall into a rut. The rut grows as I feel worse about myself.
One of my biggest problems is doing the little things we love, enjoying where we live, crafting…there’s always an excuse to put it off. So, today I’m going to go walk the beach with my husband. I don’t know the last time we were there and we live less than 2 miles away!
My relationship with my body is a love/hate but I am working on amending that. I want to be healthy and get back to a healthier weight but seem to start out great and sabetoge myself. I am reminding myself that I am only hurting myself so I have been consciously eating for about a week now and it seems to be working. Today after your video I paid attention to my low carb frozen meal and realized it was not so good. I could have made something better myself. Conscious eating allows you to taste the food with all your senses and things that you thought were good are not so could when you pay attention. As far as my fun today, I danced and sang at the top of my lungs to my ABBA CD. I was pressed for time and let love to sing along and dance to dancing queen. It was great exercise and a great stress reliever and fun! Thanks for part one and day 2. I am so inspired by you and these wonder women in this group!!!
I have had weight issues since my late teens, and like you I have yoyo dieted- although for nearly forty years. I don’t love me or what I see and I have been convinced that everything will get better if I could only lose weight. I realise now that I need think of a new ‘normal’ for me at this age.I need to do things I want to do, instead for waiting to do them when I’ve lost weight.I have someone who loves me but I struggle to believe him ‘why would he if I can’t love me’.
It’s late evening time now but I plan first thing in the morning before getting off to work to listen to some music just for fun rather than rushing around to do lots of tasks.
My number one struggle is really not liking my body since I gained 45lbs and not eating a balanced meal 3x a day.
I’m going to go for a bike ride for fun 🙂
I’ve gotten to the place where I try to ignore my body. I guess as i gain weight I have disassociated it from my mind, or attempted to anyways. I don’t look at it in mirrors. I will look at my eyes to apply makeup and things like that. I enjoy being outside in the sun. I will take a walk tonight and enjoy being present.
My struggle is moving. I am content watching my shows, working on my computer, reading my books. I have fun – and when I do – WOW it’s fun….then I sit again.
So today my little fun thing (those I need to do more of) will be….dancing in my basement for 15 mins – for no reason at all! With whomever in my family wants to join me!
1. My struggle with my body is now all to do with toning and strength. I put on weight after having two children but managed to lose most of it about 4 years ago following a low carb high fat regime. I now believe that I am very carb sensitive so I avoid them pretty much all the time. That has become normal for me and does not feel like a struggle or that I am missing out at all. But, my stomach is still not flat, my thighs still wobble, I’m still ashamed of my legs covered with cellulite. I am not focused on having to achieve the perfect weight, whilst binge eating to make myself feel better, rather I am focused on achieving the perfect firm body, whilst binge SITTING (doing no exercise) to try and make myself feel better. Same problem (focusing on the wrong thing) different perspective (tone vs weight?). NB: hope this doesn’t offend others who are struggling with weight. I know exactly how you feel and I have been there, just trying to explain my situation.
2. For fun, (tomorrow as I’m watching this video at 10pm) I’m going take my kids to the park after school and PLAY. Not sit and watch them but actually play with them (they might not be thrilled though – how embarrassing Mum!)
Thank you Sarah, I’ve enjoyed this video and the way it’s made me think about my body. I haven’t been happy with it for so long, but hadn’t acknowledged that I was actually struggling and that I needed to actually do something different. Gx