I am overweight. According to the guidelines I am obese. But I will not beat myself up about it, instead I have no choice but to work on it.
Sometimes I wonder how I got here and hmmmm maybe for once in my life that strong self esteem and self confidence my mom, a single parent, worked hard to instill in me may have worked against me. I know a lot of women who look in the mirror and pick themselves apart. When I look in the mirror I just have this habit of focusin on WHAT's RIGHT with me, instead of what's wrong.
So maybe I have beer goggles on backward lol. I have come to the conclusion that what I see what I look in the mirror must be far better than what someone on the outside sees...hence me being more than 50# overweight. The good thing is...I can change that! Even better I just have to work on the little mental hang-ups like emotional/bored eating. And that makes me feel great!
Loving one's self is the hardest thing for a person to achieve and so many of us go to our graves loving everyone and everything under the sun except for ourselves. I encourage everyone that doesn;t love themself completely take a few minutes everyone morning to focus on everything that is right, and try and forget about what is wrong bc the more attention you give to a problem the bigger it will get.
My thighs may burn holes through my jeans, and these gawd awful batwings may not bring me any closer to being a Marvel character, I refuse to begin to hate myself. Not much gets accomplished through hate, so I choose to love myself into good health, and hopefully you do to.