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• Carla

  I have forgotten how to have fun. I do things that I don’t want to do and I don’t enjoy them. I am going to figure out what it is I really want to do for fun and just go for it!!!
• Sabrina

  My biggest struggle is holding all of my emotions in and not living through them and then when I do express them it’s an explosion. Today what I’m going to do for fun is take an amazing bath and soak while reading a book
• Kate

  I have been on one diet or another for 25 years. I have spent so much time looking after everyone else that I realize I do not even know what I want to do for fun. I could tell you what all 3 of my children like to do for fun but not me. Your whole program is striking such a chord with me as I realize a lot of my emotional eating is me not taking care of myself, feel like I lost myself in the raising of my children. While they have turned out to be amazin, productive members of society I have not. So for fun today I am going to look up the cost of French lessons as I have always wanted to learn a second language. And I will eat my meals being mindful of what I put in my mouth even if it means I eat in my car away from the work computer. I know I am a day behind so right now I am going to put my red lipstick on!!
• Heidi Donald

  I have a love/hate relationship with my body. There are days I love and own my curves, but lately I look in the mirror with disgust. I recently had back surgery and have very limited mobility and physical activity which has added to my disgust. I also know I have been eating for boredom and loneliness because I have been stuck in my house recovering. I want to learn to love and heal my body and redefine what beauty is to me. Today for fun I am going to surprise my husband for lunch and actually have an adult conversation without little ones around. 🙂
• Jessica

  I used to be very thin and didn’t try at all. People used to say it wasn’t fair. I’ve gained 50 pounds over the past 5 years and everyone around me is now thin. I take really great care of everyone else including my disabled son and now I’m a nurse. For fun I’m going to listen to some music I love today.
• Emily

  Acceptance is my numero uno struggle with my body. Being 42 and seeing my mother and sister looking back at me when I look in the mirror at myself weigh heavily on me.
  My current relationship with food still involves finding what will sustain me while not keeping me fat, flabby & weak.
  Today the one thing I am doing for fun is eating breakfast outside on a patio overlooking a local lake. I can see the clouds, watch birds fly by, people running walking, biking. This calms me.
• Brenda Kolenda

  I am a day behind on this challenge. I had dear friends fly in for 3 days and now it is back to work/reality, but this video really hit home (I did struggle with it re-loading/stopping). When you can’t even find the time to spend half an hour on yourself, you realize it is time for a change. My husband and I moved to Florida leaving all of our family and friends behind, to be able to enjoy “life”, sunshine, outdoor activities, and now with two brand new careers, we hardly have dinner together. We both work weekends, and odd hours. Time to slow it all down, take it all in! And the whole eating part has been this 50+year olds constant struggle. I have lost and gained and gained and lost. But my weight has never defined who I am, only who society sees me as. I am inspired, I am ignited, I am up for the challenge! So next this morning I am taking my dogs for a walk with my husband, then I will go for a quick swim before off to work the evening shift! Wearing red lipstick…
• Cate

  I’m in late for the second day.. but I am! Sorry everybody for my terrible English, but I’m Italian 😛
  So.. my struggle about my body is a mind problem. I was a child and I was already blocked about it. I was fat as the children are but I am grown thinking to be wrong and in this way I continued to put weight. I utilized it as a protection. For that? Ahah big problem! ..now I’m doing a inner journey (thankful also to the Gabriel method, read it) and I think that awareness is already a step! About fun..in really I’m a girl that love fun and love the life so I do a lot of things for it!! Yesterday (the second day of challenge) I did a walking in my wood. I saw the nature and its energy regenerated me!
  I like eat without distraction, but I able to do it only when I am lonely..it’s more slow, concentrated about food and taste in particular. It’s like a ritual! Love it!
  So..I answered all of three, sorry for the English and…good fun and food to all of you!! <3
• Elin

  A couple of years ago I lost 45lbs on one of those protein shake/ meal substitute diets. Everyone kept telling me I looked great and I felt good too. It was fun to be more active and to wear the clothes I wanted to wear. But as you might imagine, this wasn’t sustainable. I actually love good food, wine, etc. and when I started allowing myself to have that again, well, it was hard to know when to stop. I was sick of the shakes and I was sick of my extremely ambitious gym schedule. No surprise really that the weight all came back (and more). That isn’t the first time the same pattern has happened – so that is the story of my struggle.

  I didn’t watch the video until today because yesterday was my birthday and I actually dedicated the whole day to fun! But today I think I’ll do a hot yoga class – even though I’m really out of shape and am recovering from an achilles injury. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and I believe I deserve it!
• Yvonne

  I feel like I need to cover up my body because it’s got bulges. I don’t like to have my photo taken or shared and I know I would be healthier if I were slimmer.
  For fun today, I’m going to walk in the woods with my camera and look for beautiful pictures.
• Kara

  I have had a love/hate relationship with food for literally as long as I can remember. That, of course, led to a love/hate relationship with my body. I have put myself and my needs on the back burner for a very long time. I realize now that my “someday” has to be today! Fun has become a foreign concept to me so it’s going to take some thought as to what my fun activity will be (sad but true). Thank you for this video. It really hit home. Cheers to change and a break in the clouds☀️??
• Abbie

  My struggle is having a different body shape and weight to understand after having my 2 children. For fun I’m going to sign up to Rock Choir and eating without distractions is going to be hard as I can hardly write this without my daughter interrupting! Wish me luck!
• Kelly

  My number one struggle with my body has been my belly, for sure. I’ve always felt that I would be so much happier if my belly was flatter, firmer…just not there! I try to love what I see in the mirror and that’s why I’ve found your videos, because I’m tired of trying and failing…I want to feel love inside and exude it too.
  And today of all days to do something fun…I got from work, to picking up my children, to feeding them, to parent council meeting! Hmmmm 🙂 Tonight I will relax curled up with a great fiction that I’m reading with a gorgeous cup of tea and some orange dark chocolate. I also have a friend who has been dying to do Paint Nite again…maybe we should commit to a night!
• Elizabeth

  For fun I did my favourite thing, a play date with my dog Clyde and his friend Draco. I love this time. I also went to paint nite with two of my sisters. Depending on the day sometimes I am ok with my body and sometimes I hate it.
• Nicky Quinnell

  For fun I did a weights session with Country music blaring – gym was empty so I sang out loud! After 47 years, I finally have a great relationship with my body, albeit a new relationship, but thankfully she has forgiven me for all the punishment xx
• Amy

  I’m going to start getting outside more. Music in my ears and gardening. Going hiking more. Clay shooting. Walking. Getting outdoors.
• Mashela

  I Love my body but i don’t like my belly when stick out on the fotos then i don’t see the beauty of myself. The fun thing i did this morning is when i left my kids two kidsat school and one at daycare,we had such a good time and on my way home i was smilingall the way home and in the afternoon i’m going to have a coffee with my friend.
• Maya

  I developed a negative relationship with my body over the course of a bad marriage, I really stopped taking care of myself in any way. After the birth of my daughter I gained even more weight. After my divorce I found a lot of motivation to take better care of myself, found ways of excersizing that actually worked for me, and I was the thinnest and happiest I’ve been in ten years. Last winter I had a lot of life changes, career, schedule, things that made it difficult to fit in the things that were working for me, so I’ve gained back some of the weight which brings back some negative body image issues. Making time to enjoy food is something I really need to focus on, during the work week I eat breakfast and lunch at work, usually standing up while working. I use being so busy as an excuse to make poor food choices and I needed this reminder to change that.
  I rarely ever buy anything new or frivolous for myself so for fun tomorrow I’m going to the city with the girls to go shopping for dresses to wear to a friends wedding. I am excited and terrified.
• Joanna

  What an answer to prayer you are! I have struggled with self-worth issues and feel I have built up protective layers with food. I have also experienced some random health issues that have contributed to this weight, including sciatica, a TBI, and clinical depression on top of giving birth to 3 kids. I used to be thin and active and was always described as bubbly or spontaneous, but now seem to get caught up with the daily have-to-dos and have no energy for anything fun. My marriage has also struggled and I have focused too much on him and what he needs/wants. It’s MY turn to take care of me and love myself because I DO matter! My fun thingI did today was working on a big puzzle with my kids, talking and laughing. Totally relaxing! I will focus on my food more. I tend to eat while driving from place to place for work so I will stop and connect with food. I really relate to everything you’ve said so far. It ALL makes sense to me. I especially appreciate the focus on kindness to/for our bodies. And I love that you said, “we need to connect with HER and take care of her”.
• Kelly

  My number one struggle with my body is just acceptance on what it looks like. Even when I was in shape I still wasn’t happy with how I looked.
  For fun today I was spending time with my girls. Wrestling, playing no electronics it wasn’t long but it’s a start.
• NFC

  My relationship with my body has me being grossed out with my belly and only liking myself when it doesnt show on pictures.
  For fun, I’m gonna run in the morning and at night I’m gonna hace dinner with friends.
• CB

  My relationship with my body has been difficult the last few years since being diagnosed with MS. I have days where it feels as though my body is betraying me as I’m not always able to be as active as I would like. Food can be a comfort on days where I get frustrated with the disease. Not the best coping mechanism.

  For fun today, I coloured and sketched, something I haven’t done in ages. I realized that I’ve missed it which tells me I should be making more time for it…
• Lesli

  Over the last year I decided that I cannot spend my life hating myself because my of my body. Lifes too short not to enjoy it. Everything you said I have been thinking & trying to do but I love that you have easy challenges to show us how to easy it can be to accomplish it. I just got to your video tonight so while I take my dog to the vet tomorrow & clean my house I plan on wearing my red lipstick and rocking out to my favorite music while doing what I gotta do. No reason chores have to make you miserable. Thank you Sarah for giving me the direction I so needed. If only there was a male version of this. My husband really needs something like this in his life too.
• CindyK

  My relationship with my body is not in a very good place right now. It is a constant struggle to get up and moveven because of the amount of weight I have gained over the last several years. I am ashamed of my body and more ashamed that I have lost complete control over it, but I am HERE and I am ready to put in the hard work to make changes that lead me to a happier life!!
  For fun, I took a walk at lunch – even though I was uncomfortable and I had to go slow, I still did it!
• Emily

  My relationship with my body is hot and cold. I long to be the size I was just last year! This video really hit home, I could relate to ALL of it! I lost a lot of weight last year then put it back on again. What’s hard is that I did get more compliments and overall attention when I was thinner,
  • Emily

    Sorry didn’t get to finish before I hit “submit”. Although I feel I received more attention overall when I lost weight, I can see most of that was just from the dramatic change people saw me going through. People didn’t actually like me more or less than they do now. I realize this.
    For fun I plan on visiting my favorite new age book/gift store and then seeing a movie with my best friend, can’t wait!
    Eating without distraction will not be too hard for me, I am a professional cook, I know how to pay attention to good food. 😉
• Corrina marty

  My current relationship with my body is I am worried about my declining health already at 44. I would love to be able to get my health back and my body would be a bonus. I missed the challenge today but I did treat myself to a one on one personal yoga session today and a relaxing enjoyable 25 minute walk following my session.However I did do this challenge ahead of the live more challenge on the day I signed up. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s red lip challenge.?
• jqshelto

  I have always been overweight and last month as I was getting my work clothes out of the closet I realized that I didn’t fit into anything which meant that I was officially the heaviest I have ever been and I was totally ashamed. After that I went to my dr and spoke with him about ways for ,e to lose weight and still be healthy. Since then, the weight has started to come off and my self confidence has gone up. But there is still a long way to go. Today, I had fun teaching my grade 1class. I am a music teacher and I got to sing and dance and be silly with them. I am so glad that my job allows me to do this each and everyday.
• Amber

  My number one body struggle has always been not feeling comfortable in my own skin. When I saw the words… Get out of body jail, I had to check it out. I never participate in things like this so I’m excited to see where it leads. My fun for today was a random dance party with my daughter♡
• Amber Fox

  My number one body struggle gas always been not feeling comfortable in my own skin. When I saw the words… Get out of body jail, I had to check it out. I never participate in things like this so I’m excited to see where it leads. My fun for today was a random dance party with my daughter♡
• kelly

  1. The struggle with my body is the way I see myself in the mirror is very different to say when I look at a photo of myself. I see myself as someone who wants a bit off here, wish my tummy was more toned, arms were more toned etc etc. However, when I look back at photos I think – what on earth was I going on about?! I’m not overweight, I look good. I just want to get to a point where I look in the mirror with confidence and more love. I also have this idea that if I lose a few more kgs I will be more likely to meet a guy… Sometimes I just don’t feel good enough physically for the guys that I am attracted to. Ahhh I feel like that sounds ridicules
  2. For fun today I did some exercise and took the dog for a walk. Dunno if I find it overly ‘fun’ but I know its good for my mind and body which keeps me happy. I’m actually thinking of finding some kind of group to join to try meet some new people, sometimes I feel like I do so much on my own that it’s time to get out of my comfort zone more.
  3. I have been doing mindful eating a couple weeks now and have lost weight and I enjoy my food so much more and don’t need as much to feel satisfied