Showing posts with label perception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label perception. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2009

My mantra...

I honor and value my health and my body.

Again, taken from "Yoga Booty Ballet"

...Plan your meals around your daily activity, eating more two to three hours before you work out, and less during periods when you're sedentary. Also avoid eating for three hours before you go to sleep. This rule is espiecially important when trying to lose body fat, as carbs and dietary fats are more readily converted into body fat while you're sleeping.

Eliminating entire food groups from your meals is never a good idea, although mnay trendy diets claim this ithe be-all and ed-all of weight loss. But these exrtreme plans do not teach you a healthful way of eating that will last a lifetime, and often throuw you into that never-ending cycle of losing and gaining weight that so many of experience. Instead, eat a litte bit of everything, eat it slowly, and evjoy every bite.

What will I do to honor and value my body?
  • Be more active
  • Understand what I'm putting into my body
  • Let my body and mind unwind

Friday, February 27, 2009

Love the skin you're in*

As I throw myself full force into my new lifestyle, I am reminded of extremes. I want to go on the record as saying:
I am doing this for my health
I am doing this for my future
I don't want to be skinny (despite the blog title)
I want to look good in my clothes
I want to be an example for my niece
I want to be the catalyst for my family and friends, so they will know they can do it too.



I need to remind myself and those around me that "perfection" cannot be attained. I most likely will not be the size I was in high school. I believe it when I say real women have curves; I just want to have less of them.

I know I can't be happy starving myself, working out until it becomes a chore, not chewing things, I know I won't do it. I am going into this with a healthy perception of what I am going to get out of it. I know I am ONLY going to get out of it what I put into it.


*Dove tagline
 
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