Body Confidence is a relative concept. What it takes to make me confident in myself may not necessarily be the same for you, and vise-versa. As such, I can't tell you how to love yourself (if only it was that easy!!) I can only make suggestions. One avenue people use in the gym ( aka Satan's playground). The problem for many is actually getting to there. And here we have it, that word we have thrown at us from our most informative years: Motivation.
One of the hardest things about
losing weight/getting healthy is motivation. I have never been motivated to lose weight before
in my life! I’d diet for maybe two days and the lure of pizza would become too
strong. Next thing I know I have a food baby and I’m suffering the effects of
eating the entire pie of Pizzary goodness in 30 minutes.
Today I weighed myself for the
first time in a little while to discover I’d lost an entire stone. How? I
haven’t exercised in weeks and had MacDonald’s yesterday. I’m not entirely
sure. But it does prove one thing. Basic
changes make a huge difference, all I did was substitute my normal take away
meals for huge salads, cut chocolate back to maybe twice a week, substituted
crisps for plantain chips and popcorn and drank allot of water. I exercised a
few times a week but didn’t go crazy. I still ate Mac Donald’s and pizza every
now and again and couldn’t stop drinking juice!
But guess what? It freaking
worked!! 14 lbs gone!! Can you tell? Not even a little bit. But guess what? I
don’t care! I don’t care if I still wear the same size, or if no one has
noticed I’ve lost weight. I did it! I accomplished something I’d never been
able to do and if there was any indication that living a healthier lifestyle
was good then this would be it!
So here is my advice for my
friends struggling to motivate themselves:
Don’t sweat it! Your motivation will come from
yourself, don’t let anyone pressure you to lose weight, don’t do it for a man,
don’t do it for Society's opinions of you or your friends, do it for you.
Alternatively; you could just not
blooming bother! Screw the gym. Forget being sweaty and in pain. Do you even realize how much my ass hurts right now? Enjoy your
burrito! Have fun with Ben and Jerry! Laugh at those 'real' gymers who get up at stupid-o'clock while you're in the arms of the angels in bed. Who cares!? As long as you’re happy with
yourself does it really matter what anyone else thinks!?
NO. It doesn’t.
Society and the media would have
us all believe that how many likes we get on a picture, or how many compliments
we received, or whether you can fit in a size 4 is what matters. It conditions us to believe that beauty is based on certain checklists: Tall. Check. Size zero. Check. etc.
I’m going to
let you in on a little secret. It’s a bunch of horse-crap.
Other peoples’ opinions of you
don’t matter. They don’t freaking know you! My advice is to give them this face:
At the end of the day people always feel its okay to give their opinions about things that have nothing to do with them but just remember, in then end, the only opinion about you that matters, is your own.
So exercise or don’t bother: Just Be….Your way xx
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