I saw this quote a few weeks ago and it struck a chord with me. I will turn 28 this year and I don't remember a single moment in my life where I have loved my body. I thought once I started losing weight it would happen. How wrong I was. Without getting too graphic losing 92 pounds does certain things to a body. While the body does shrink, there can also be extra skin that you have to deal with. And while I do have more weight to lose, the added weight loss will only add to the excess skin that I cannot stand.
I am a big believer that you have to love yourself before you can expect anyone else to love you. For the first time in many years I do love most of my body. Internally I know I'm a good person. Smart, funny, caring, attractive. Any guy would be lucky to have me. And compared to what my body was before I started losing weight, I am proud of it. I am proud of my accomplishment. Well, most of it. If only I could learn to be more accepting of my mid-section I would be set.
The thing I hate more than my mid-section is the fact that I tie a large part of my self worth into it. When I make pro/con list about myself the biggest con that I can list is my stomach. And for some reason that one con (there are more entries when I create my list) wipes out all of the amazing pro's. And I'm kind of an all or nothing girl so I never tell myself that I'm going to have to settle for just some guy. No I tell myself that I will never have any guy because of that one single con. Is it fair? No, but at this moment in my life I don't know how to change my thinking and somehow turn it into a pro.
I don't expect perfection from myself. In fact I want to be curvy and womanly. I would be completely happy with my entire self top to bottom if only I could learn to love and accept my stomach area.
My biggest goal for 2012 is to find a way, any way, to completely love every inch of my body. I have absolutely no clue how to make that happen, but I feel that learning this may be the most profound moment that will happen on my journey.
Do you love every inch of your body? If so, how did you get there? If not, how can we get there?
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Until Next Time,
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