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I’m a bit different. I’ve never had a weight issue. In fact I was always super athletic and competitive. After the birth of my third child I became very ill with autoimmune diseases. Many. I could not eat. It wouldn’t stay down. I became very sick and thin and when I moved it hurt and I would be sick. Des prescribed atrocious drugs which made me sicker over a decade. I recently quit taking all of them and onto medications that didn’t mask the illnesses but actually allowed my body to move. But having not eaten solid food for a decade I ate everything! I was pushed into early menopause by chemotherapy and now all the food rests around my middle and I hate it. I know what to eat and that is easy. It’s getting out of the house regularly after ten years plus that is hard. I’ve started exercising again and today my favorite thing will be walking my dog to the river and throwing his toy so he can swim. I didn’t wear red lipstick because I’ve never worn makeup and I like the natural look. But I’m following you and thank you. You’re a breath of fresh air. We all have our fallbacks. Goodluck to everyone! Xo
Feeling like the heaviest person in the room, with everyone staring at me. Going to go do some cartwheels.
Today I am going to get outside and take my camera and get some great nature photos. My relationship with my body right now is not so good. I definately have the idea that if I could just lose weight I would be happy and I could hike more and camp more and even just work in my garden more.I am going to work on eating without distractions and eating what my body wants instead of what is convenient and easy.
Today I am having a picnic in the park with my coworkers at lunch for fun and to soak in the last beautiful days of summer! My current relationship with food is that I am trying to find balance. I’ve yo yo’d in my weight for the last 15 years and since January I had lost 50 pounds. I have put about 5 back on and I’m currently working on getting them off again. I struggle with either being “on a diet” or “on a binge” so I’m really working on a happy balance. I’ve been trying to be “good” on weekdays so I can splurge a little on the weekends with friends. I have found activity to help and started floor hockey and crossfit this summer to meet new people. I need to work on eating without distractions because every breakfast and lunch is at my desk and dinner is in front of the TV. Tonight I am going to sit at my dining room table for once!
Just finished a 4 month nutritional fat loss program and my relationship with my body has completely changed so now I’m working on the rest of me too!! Fun – going out dancing and playing with te kids and dancing at home for fitness. Makes me smile. Doing the live more challenge is fun too
I don’t see my comment so second try. Well, the cookie diet was great for losing weight, and also for gaining it back. I’ve had a few time in my life when I looked traditionally good – when sick, after cookie diet, when I was busy running for vp of my junior class, and when I majored in dance and swam in the olympic pool between classes. Oh yeah, and the summer I took tennis and ate crappy meals working at a nursing home. I dance. I do 5 Rhythms and like it. I want to swim I’ve been saying for 20 years. I want to joint the Y… Yes, fill my life eating hits, and hit when I lost my husband so to speak. Tonight I’m going to look at the stars and “dance with the stars.” I already ate distractedly before seeing the video so will start that tomorrow. I’ve tried loving up my thighs with lotion/oil, and paints and loving words. But yet, but yet that shame about body being too big is somewhat pervasive. Some days in the mirror and scale are better. Yes, I feel better on vegies and fruit and organics and such and don’t crave sugar or want bread really. I will be meeting a man I’ve met online/phone and skype. He doesn’t seem attached to the physical body thing so this should be interesting. Will I wear the black long top to conceal or just…be. That is the question for when we meet in a month…
Since age 11. I recall Metrecal chocolate drinks, grapefruit, went on the cookie diet – lost over 50 pounds (few years ago) – started gaining weight almost immediately. Remember embarrassment of shopping in chubby section at a store. Tried things to reduce shame and love body including giving it love, painting on it, putting lovely oils and lotion combo on big thigh. Ate through grief of husband dying. Well…have felt man might not like me because I’m not traditional magazine look, which caused sorry. Have been trying to not stuff and eat fruits and vegies but…but I go off sometimes – feel better not stuffing. I am a bit behind – it’s Wednesday and I’m on Tuesday. I already had fun dancing in my room. I think I’ll go out and stargaze and dance with the stars later. If I eat more today I intend to sit down and not be distracted. Thanks!! I met a man who seems to not buy into the traditional magazine weight thing – online. Will be meeting him. Will see how it goes…
1.I struggle with truly believing I’m in good shape, even though I probably am. I’m never content. It’s been lifelong and I’m 49 now.
2. For fun today I had tea with my good friend!
3. I don’t know how not distracted eating is going yet because I’m eating while doing this and always eat while doing something else. That one will be a work in progress!
My bodyis swollen & sore from sitting five days, traveling two, & sitting three. This despite doing MLD most nights, walking in the morning & wearing compression garments. It will take three days of intensive address to recover. It doesn’t help that is period time. But I’m looking good in shorts and a top.
fun today will be dancing. Or playing swing ball in thesun.
I like eating with out distraction. My husband & I benefit greatly from the slow comfortable natter while we eat. I like doing it with a candle Even if I’m alone. We started doing it because it was mad to our dog to sit on the couch watching tv, & being closer to his nose. : )
number one struggle with my body is, i hate it, i have Crohnn’s and arthritis i feel like it lets me down,i dont feel sexy or beautiful no matter what anyone says
something for fun , walk in the rain
My one and only issue with my body was that I didn’t respect, or appreciate it enough. My whole life has been putting other people first and waiting for them to get over what ever hurdle or issue they were having at the moment so that I could get on with my life. That moment never came. Other people’s problem’s and dilemma’s would just keep coming up and the more I fixed, the more they came. Until I had a problem, and there was no one to help me “fix”it. I had put on 100 pounds, found myself in a very emotionally abusive relationship, lost my high paying job (that I hated with every fiber of my being). I have a long road ahead of me but I’m willing to go through it with myself and “fix”my life and live it the way I want to live it. Not based on what other people think I should or even be concerned on how this will effect them. I’m saving up in order to end my relationship and then I’m going to buy myself a ring for myself because it’s time I “married” me. With that said, for fun I am going online to chose a ring for myself and place it on my vision board as a reminder that it’s time for me.
My body doesn’t feel sexy to me at the moment and I feel overweight and not loving my shape. I have been distracted and let myself go a little. I know I can feel better than I do right now.
For fun today I’m going to start a new book for myself, jump on the trampoline with my kids & watch a Disney flick in our PJs because I LOVE DISNEY!
My number one issue with my body is my crazy mind. It says such horrible hurtful things to me all the time & has been programmed to think that I can’t be happy unless I am slim. I was a chubby child & then from the age of 14 I’ve spent my life either on very restrictive diets or binge eating. I’ve lost 6,7,8 stone several times over through low carbs, milkshakes, juicing, Slimming World, Weight Watchers, slimming pills with all diets ultimately ending in some form of starvation. And every time after a couple of months at my ‘ideal’ weight the weight starts creeping back on & I binge & overeat all the weight back on in a matter of months. I’m stuck in a vicious cycle of all or nothing when it comes to food. I’ve struggled with depression for almost 20 years & been diagnosed with multiple eating disorders…atypical anorexia, binge eating disorder, compulsive overeating, bulimia, orthorexia but I feel like such a fraud. I just have a really crap relationship with food & absolutely no will power. Most people who know about my eating issues just laugh because how could a 17 stone frump have an eating disorder!! Food & dieting rule my life & I obsess over them 24/7 whether it’s planning very rigorous dieting or deciding which supermarket to go to to buy junk food to shove in my face until I feel sick. Just completely & utterly tired & stressed & miserable by the whole situation.
I have 2 daughters, age 2 & 4 & all I want to be is a good role model to them but how can I be when I’m constantly worrying about what they’re eating & that they’ll end up fat with my eating issues. I just want a healthy relationship with food.
Anyway, enough misery…. For my fun thing today I’m going to start a good book. I love a good thriller but spend far too much time on Facebook & watching telly so I’m dedicating an hour to starting a new book
Body challenges… My stature is larger (some would say “big boned” which bothers me), and the ever love’ dimples on the back of my legs and & dupa – boo!
Fun…cooking dinner… Meatloaf, roasted sweet potatoes, and kale sautéed in olive oil and garlic. I love when I can take my sweet old time preparing a meal. The cutting, chopping, mixing, etc… It’s like mediation to me- I get lost in the process☺️
I just “tripped” across this program, and I’m LOVING it!!!
Body challenges… My stature is larger (some would say “big boned” which bothers me, and the ever love’ dimples on the back of my legs and & dupa – boo!
Fun…cooking dinner… Meatloaf, roasted sweet potatoes, and kale sautéed in olive oil and garlic. I love when I can take my sweet old time preparing a meal. The cutting, chopping, mixing, etc… It’s like mediation to me- I get lost in the process☺️
I just “tripped” across this program, and I’m LOVING it!!!
I have a tendency to ignore my body…and my home. The story of never leaving the house… that’s me. Since my divorce (several years ago) I have turned inwards and find that I do miss fun and laughter. Not liking my job doesn’t help – it’s no longer fulfilling or challenging. I don’t have children, so really, I have no excuses for my actions or my body.
It takes all my willpower to get myself out the door.
My fun tonight, I’m off to learn a new outdoor skill and hang out with with my Dad.
Biggest struggle – eating for fear and comfort and loneliness. It really is like the food or the action of eating stops my panic, and makes me feel happier on a chemical level!
What I am going to do (which will be tomorrow) is paint. I paint from time to time, and get paid for it (commissions) I really want to do a painting for myself.
I have too many distractions at home to eat without my mind or body drifting off, so I am going to eat outside, perhaps down by the duck pond. The ducks will distract me but I think that’s the point! X
My number one problem with my body is my weight followed very closely by the fact that I have Crohn’s Disease. My body has never been a friend to me. I have tried to eat without distraction before, but I will try again. Fun for today. Go home early and start a good book.
My struggle has been with body image. I have had four kiddos and they have stretched out my body permanently. I don’t love to be naked…..:( I am in a loving relationship, finally and want to learn to truly love and accept myself just as I am. Thank you for helping us to view ourselves through a different set of eyes. <3
Hmmmm, what are my issues with my body??? I am quite mean to her to be honest. I know there are so many things that my body is great at and capable of but I focus on the negative things.Some of the negative things may not even be a bad as I think….. I am aware that my breasts are not as full as they were before I had children and when I was a lot bigger, it seems stupid to want the boobs that I had when I was a lot bigger but for years I felt like they were my only good feature as they were what I got attention for and complimented on. I also have an issue with a huge scar from my belly button to half way down my pubic bone. It kind of makes my stomach look like a butt, my daughter asked me why my tummy looked like a bum once, that hurt. I am aware I have big thighs and legs, sometimes I don’t mind and others it makes me feel huge. As I said, I can be quite mean to my body, not all of the time but most of it.
What am I going to do for fun today???? I am going to go op shopping with a friend and try on silly things 🙂
Hi everyone.
My body issues have been around forever!! My nan told me I was born pear shaped and I was always seen as the chubby one in the family. Looking back I really wasn’t that big – I had a bit of a belly and big legs but that was just my natural body.
My issues started when I was 16 and at college. Since I wasn’t free school meals anymore and I could pick my own lunch I really went to town. I would guzzle down a milkshake from a shop near college everyday and then have a calorific lunch straight after since liquid calories do not equal a satiating lunch. I would get home before everyone and attack the crisps supply at home – sometimes 6 bags a day when the rule was one only. I was in the middle of a horrendous psoriasis flare up at the same time and really struggling with A levels which must have played a part now that I look back on it.
for a 23 year old I really don’t have a lot of fun. I’m planning on having a solo dance party in my room tonight.
My body issues…oh, where do I begin? LOL. In a nutshell, I, too, was a chubby 10 year old (is there something magical about 10? Maybe the very beginning hormonal changes?) and have been on and off dieting ever since. I was bullied at school and would get home and just pound the food down. I think in some ways, I just learned that that is the only way to feel better. I can’t seem to unlearn that lesson! Even with the years and years of Weight Watchers! I recently turned 40 and cried all day long because my life is NOTHING like I thought it would be at 40. I feel like an 80 year old to start with. I’m “crinkly” with joint aches and pains, I weigh about 100 lbs more than I should, I’m grouchy and mean with my family and anxiety and depression are my constant companions. Blech. I wish I could get back the money I’ve spent on Weight Watchers…talk about some fun money! But, since I can’t, I’m going to put on music **I** like (even though my kids will mock me…I don’t care. I love Usher.) and dance in my living room. It was interesting when I was watching the video how I thought “we have fun all the time” but immediately, my mind countered with “no, we do kid fun things, most of which you hate (like grinning my way through amusement parks–oh, the agony!).” Also, when Sarah talked about not liking the food she eats, I had this visual collage start in my head of things I eat, and overeat, but hate…goldfish, peanut M&Ms, skittles, store-bought cookies…and realized, those are all things someone in my family loves. I need to listen to me and my voice a lot more. Thanks for bringing that to my attention! Money is super tight (oh, the tightness), so I actually started to write off this process…can’t do dance lessons, so there must not be any fun out there! I realized through other comments, though, that I was wrong. I’m grateful for the comments! 🙂 I also realized that the most fun I’ve had recently was splashing in a nearby river. It’s a gorgeous spot, the kids had so much fun, it felt good to be in nature and alive (water is so restorative)…and it’s totally free! Challenge to find free fun accepted!!
Hi, thank you so much for putting on this program. A lot of what you said in this video completely resonated with me. When you said you went to your first Weight Watcher’s meeting when you were ten actually brought tears to my eyes because I went through a similar journey. I had a teacher in third grade who bullied me because of my weight.(looking back, I was not super skinny, but I was also by no means fat) I did start to put weight on after that year. I started to struggle with depression and disordered eating fairly soon after that. My mother also struggled with her weight and some of my earliest memories are of going to TOPS meetings with her and watching her starve herself so she’d have a good result at those meetings. Of course she’d also buy us candy and junk food and hide it from my Dad, because he always disapproved of us eating unhealthy foods. Those are two of the biggest root causes of my horrible relationship with food and my body.I’m 40 yeas old now, and it makes me so mad that I’ve spent so many years chasing an ideal that I haven’t been able to attain.
This spring I finally started to come out of this and I started a 5K training plan, not to lose weight but to feel better. My doctor has said for years that aerobic activity helps fight depression and anxiety, but I wasn’t ready to hear it until then. Shockingly she was right! I sleep better and I’m a happier person when I can go for a run regularly. Never before have I stuck to any sort of exercise plan for any real length of time because if I didn’t see the scale move, I lost motivation quickly. My 10 year old daughter and I signed up to do a 5k colour run in two weeks, and while I can’t run the whole amount, we’re going to go and have fun.
The fun is challenging me! I feel like I have so much to do,I don’t have “time” I think my fun will be pulling out my spinning wheel. I haven’t spun any yarn in over a year, and I have some sitting waiting to be plyed so I can knit some gloves for my daughter. I love all things fibre arts so this will be a nice treat.
My number one body challenge is health. I want to be healthy. I am now working with a naturopath on that issue. My goal is to eliminate or drastically reduce the pain from fibromyalgia. The second issue is the changes I’ve experienced from menopause. Some are good (no more periods) but I do struggle with others (the weight gain around my middle). I am in a doctoral program so fun is something I don’t experience enough, outside of interacting with my peers. However I love my job and have fun everyday that I get to interact with students and watch them grow. Today I am in between classes and comprehensive exams so I am going to the bookstore and the fabric store. I miss reading for fun and will get a couple magazines to enjoy. I also miss crochet so will pick up some yarn to start a new project.
I’ve always struggled with weight and experienced emotional neglect from the age of 12 due to the stress on my family of my brother having a serious RTA. I took to comfort eating to deal with the anxieties of his condition and tried to be the perfect child that my parents didn’t have to worry about. When I was 18, I went on a dramatic diet and lost 3 stone taking me down to 10 stone. Since then, I have yo-yoed and followed a variety of diet plans with varying success. Lately, I have become more desperate but whatever I have set out to do has ended in failure and disappointment. The past two years has also been very tough – losing my dear Dad 2 years ago, personal health issues and my mother-in-law passing away in June. Talking it through with a friend recently, she highlighted that it was madness to try to diet when I am dealing with emotional distress on this scale. Finding Sarah and the ‘Live More/Weigh Less’ program is incredible timing and is what I need right now.
Truth is, I have neglected myself and feel very disconnected with what I need and my relationship with my body. Turning things on the flip side and starting to consider issues such as fun first is very refreshing. So, I am going to enjoy my musical talent (which I haven’t done for a very long time) by playing my piano, and most importantly play something that I like.
Hi there! I’m a bit behind on the challenges I know this was yesterday. We had a scare with my son. He had a horribly infected bug bite. Lymes test was negative, Phew. Now just hoping these antibiotics kick in and it starts to go away!
So my messed up relationship with food goes back so far and is so deep routed. I was so young when it started I didn’t even understand it. After some therapy I’m realizing some of the defense mechanisms I set up as a child have followed me to my adulthood and just don’t work anymore. This makes picking my #1 problem tough. I guess it’s that I want to be happy and comfortable in my own skin. I don’t want to feel less than because of my body. I want to love my body, I try to I do. I’ve lost myself somewhere along the way: getting married, becoming a mother, dealing with health issues and food sensitivities, the loss of my mother…
All I do is cook, clean and take care of everybody. I love this but it’s got to be part of what I am not all of who I am. That’s my biggest struggle.
I’m going to play piano today for my dose of fun. I recently inherited my mother’s baby grand. She died last summer. It was devastating. The piano makes me feel close to her and reminds me how talented I am.
Eating without distractions!!!! I gotta try this. I’m the queen of multitasking and distractions. Challenge accepted:)
Hi Heather,
I can fully relate to your journey. Good on you for playing your mother’s baby grand – it’s exactly what I’m going to do for my dose of fun!
Helen
For fun today I am going to a ballroom dance class with my teenage son I have always wanted to take classes and never wanted to go alone and my husband has never been interested in going along with me. Two years ago my son for Christmas gave me a certificate stating that if I am able to find a class and pay the tuition he would be happy to go as my dance partner and we could learn together. I have tried a few times to schedule such a class but I have failed and now I finally followed through. I am nervous about wearing a dance dress for the class I am overweight and usually wear long skirts they go down to my ankles but I will need something shorter to move and dance comfortably in. I am very self-conscious about my legs showing I hope and dare to try to have fun anyway!
Update on Fun! I have always wanted to take cooking classes and I just booked a class on how to make home made ravioli! I am excited to get out, meet new people and learn something new!
Today, for fun, I’m going to go for a walk in the warn fall sun while listening to a great playlist!
My body struggle is that I’m short (5″1″) and tend to have weight around my stomach and thighs. I have two children that are now 13 and 9 years old. I did get back to my pre-pregnancy weight a few years ago by following Weight Watchers. I’ve since gained around 7 pounds and keep trying to get back to where I was. I am happy with parts of my body and am very grateful for a working body.
As for fun, this is something I’ve been reflecting on the last few months. That is what is missing in my life right now. I have two jobs, two children and a husband so my life is quite busy. I do enjoy my yoga classes very much but wouldn’t really consider that a “fun” thing! I really enjoy having girls’ nights and just chatting and laughing about all sorts of things! So maybe I’ll have to organize one very soon!