What Have You Done Today to Make You Feel Proud?
It's funny you said that, I can so relate to you. When I quit my job a few years ago I promised myself I would no let myself go. That also went for wearing jeans daily instead wearing sweats or any form of stretchy pants. I was afraid that if stopped the primping and start wearing the strechy pants I would gain back some weight again.
Sure enough, it happened. So what you said really made sense to me. Keep it up girl! I use to go tanning also, but now I have perokeratosis so I can't. Tanning made me feel so much better, and sexier! I've been thinking of doing some research on the tanning lotions since I can't use the fake n bake anymore. Anything to start feeling good about our self eh?
Us Alaskans are such jeans and hoodies people.lol
And Kimmie...I would fall flat on my ass wearing those stilettos. I hate shoes.lol Give me a good pair of tennies any day and I"m fine just with the one pair.
My personal opinion is that no matter what you weigh or what you wear, it should make you look the best that you can possibly look. And even when I was huge, it made me at least feel like a woman when I was made up and dressed like I was worth it, even if I didn't feel like I was. I think that is part of the reason my DH never thought I was as big as I was cuz I never stopped looking put together.
So ladies, if you are out there looking like you just don't care anymore,
STOP IT! If you "Fix Yourself", as my grandmother used to say, you will start to feel better about yourself. And if you feel good about yourself, you will start to love yourself enough to get healthy. It took me years to start to love myself enough to do something just for me. Losing weight is hard, and I personally didn't think I was worth the trouble. But I was, and so are you!Sorry Holly, I got carried away talking about loving yourself...can you tell I think it's important? LOL
Mary
I can just vision you slapping our hands.hahaha Yea your right, but I will have to say it's harder than hell to get out of this routine we put our self in. I think it's more than just loving our self. I think it happens when we have kids. We tend to start caring about others more than our self. I always handed it to people who didn't fall into this category. But it's the truth, kids take up our time! (I"ll use me as an example) I've lived the last nineteen years with my kids health as the number one priority. Ok..maybe your right..it's about one's self love.lol
There are you happy now.hahahaha You know what else..I can NEVER EVER get all primped and just stay at home. I HAVE to go out for the day if I primp. How am I gonna clean house all day and cook dinners and lunches if I do that??lol Seriously!
And as far as getting gussied up to cook and clean, I KNOW I didn't say THAT cuz if you would see how I look when I'm at home minding my own business,
you'd be shocked!I was talking more about loving yourself enough to do something selfish, like taking on the full time job of weight loss. It's like I say about Mamas, if it was your child this miserable, you would have moved heaven and hell by now to make it better for them. That's the kind of loving yourself I'm talkin' bout.
Yanno Holl, I know how hard you struggle with all of this, and I know that your kids have to be your number one priority, I just think it would be great if you could put Holly at least in the top ten list of your priorities. I for one think you should at least be second from the top!
Mary
I know that when I was 320 pounds, it gave me a sense of worth to know that even though I was obese, at least I didn't look like a slob, which would have been easy for me to do since I hated myself at the time. Sometimes, skinny people have a tendency to think that if you are fat, you are lazy. I might have been fat, but I was done to perfection...hard to argue with that!
Feel better soon,
Mary
Interstingly enough, I actually do not have the hunger issues i usta have either. And even before, when I was really busy or hiking or biking, my hunger gets very suppressed.
So i cannot say I have very often forgot to eat, but like you i am grateful that I am not obsessed like so many times in my life. It takes concentrating on eating the good stuff and keeping busy,
My yesterday proud? hmmmmm i stuck to my food plan all day very nicely.
However, no butts in here as to negate the good stuff i did, at the end of my work day, got waaaay tooo busy at work, got home at 6 very stressed out. Ate too much supper. went to bed feeling too full.
I just dunno. I need to be mindful and remember to de-stress before supper even if it kills me.
I had a rest day yesterday - that Sunday hike about killed my poor ole body. I had to get up at 7:30 to get myself together. But i would not have missed it for the world.
Dancing on Saturday night also about killed me - at least 3 straight hours of bumping and grinding! I got home at 1:00 a.m.!!!! i am way too old for this stuff....
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." ~Mark Twain
Great encouragement words, Mary. I believe one of the things "we" do that knocks us flat is to talk ourselves down either out loud or in our minds. Gotta stop that stuff.Don't know if I told you guys about one of my ladies here in town who Randall was counselling on her weight stall. He assessed her calorie intake as too low, and she responded that she didn't "Deserve" to eat more because she is still "fat". Wow. Eye opener right there. Why do women punish themselves like that? But he set her straight, and I'm stickin' close.
I absolutely agree that if you take the effort to dress, do your hair, and makeup if you wear it, the good feelings follow. I even put on makeup and get dressed up to do telephone call business building. I swear people can hear it over the phone!
Have you guys watched 'Food Matters' yet? MY GOSH. Very good info. The trailer is free, and the full length movie (online) is a $5 pay per view. Good stuff.
Ehhhh I have a meeting in one hour and I'm in my fluffy yellow robe.
