lauraanne715
Progress NOT Perfection
Jun 22, 2009
My friend from my support group and here on OH -Katie has told me that title line in some emails and it is true--" Progress not Perfection" my lovelies is the name of the game this year. As you can tell I am still in a New Year's mode and still trying to flesh out my goals and aspirations for the year.But that line is true for all of us and how we approach life each day. I do not need to be an airbrushed, photo shopped bikini model. I do, however, need to be the best me I can be each day. I need to be focused on my health, my nutrition, and my emotional and spiritual needs.
Am I saying that the media has turned a generation of little girls into anorexic, image obsessed women? No. But I will say that the media has definitely been upping the ante in that direction with more and more unrealistic portrayals of women and the body women should have. The average American woman today is a healthy size 14. For Pete's sake the sexiest woman of all time--Marilyn Monroe was a size 14!!! But today people say a size 14 is fat. It isn't ladies!!!
Whether a woman is a size 14, 12, or a 6 if she is healthy and doing what is nutritionally sound for herself than there should be no question of whether or not she is fat--because that is not the issue. Is she healthy? Is she fit? Is she happy with herself?? Those are the questions we must ask ourselves each day--not are we too fat?
I need to and am going to focus on what is good about me and not what is wrong with me. I hope we will all do the same this year. Let us all keep doing what is good and healthy for our minds and bodies. My mantra this year is definitely "PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION".
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Pottstown, PA
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29.7
BMI
Surgery
05/28/2008
Surgery Date
Feb 18, 2008
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