Body Love

Do you embrace your body? Do you love your body? For years, I have judged the way that my body looks. Never happy with where I am. But over the past couple of months, I have been truly learning to love where I am today!

Recently, I have gained some weight (rather quickly). I knew it had happened when my pants weren’t fitting me the way I am use to. One morning, I decided to step onto the scale to see just how much I had gained. And you know what…The number shocked me! I wasn’t expecting it.

Thankfully, I was heading out for a meeting because I wanted to roll up in a ball and cry. Never have I weighed this much in my life (except for being pregnant.) I knew that I couldn’t stay in the place of self-pity. So I reached out of my tribe for support. I shared with them what I was going through because I have learned NOT to stay silent when struggling with something. (Check out my Accountability post to read more)

Where did these changes come from?

Over the following couple of days while I processed the changes in my body, I realized a few things. First, I had not been making the best food choices. I had been so busy that I wasn’t looking after myself, I hadn’t been batch cooking and prepping meals like I normally do. And I was enjoying WAY too many delicious baked goods!

Second, I am not very active. Yes, I do walk my son to school every day but that is a 5 minute walk in one direction and I am not walking fast enough to get my heart pumping (I have to walk the pace of my 4 year old daughter.) I was very thankful for one of my tribe friends, who reached out to help keep me accountable to getting active.

7-Minute Workout

I love that I can do a 7-minute workout in my own home and it works all my muscles. Here is the 7-Minute Workout that I do! Let me know if you have a favourite short workout and share the link so I can check it out!

My Process

Here is a few things that I am doing to help me adjust to the changes in my body. When I look in the mirror, I say to myself, “I am HEALTHY!” I am looking at the positive, not the negative. Also I am learning to Thank my body for what is has accomplished. I have 2 beautiful children that I grew in my body and when I am thinking negatively about myself, I am not honouring what it has accomplished.

Also, I have made the decision that I am not going to try and lose the weight but I have accepted where I am and I am working to getting healthy. Which means eating properly and getting active!

To help me with this, I am also going to get rid of all my pants that I don’t like how they fit because I am not trying to lose the weight but tone my body. When my clothes fit me well, I feel better about how I look.

I am learning to LOVE my body and accept where I am now!!! I am spending more time focusing on the present and not where I want to be. The question that needs to be asked is “What can I do today?”

I am aware that how you see me and how I see myself, don’t always match and I think that we need to look at ourselves through someone else perspective. You can do this with your tribe. Use each other to build each other up!

I would love to hear what you are doing to love your body and your self. Share with me some things that have helped you!