Really, I am horrible at New Year's Resolutions. What I really want to do is get back to being more healthy after this crazy holiday season. With that in mind, I want to do it for the right reasons and not get sucked into the "world's" view of healthy and beautiful. If I can't think I am beautiful, even while packing a little more "heat" than I was in high school, than what can I expect my beautiful daughter to think of herself as she grows up. I never thought I was pretty enough growing up...not due to my mother who always told me I was. How do you fight the advertising you are surrounded with? I ran across this video in the business section and it really spoke to me on this point.
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Oh I hear ya! It is a constant pull between the yummy, unhealthy food out there and trying to get to a point of looking and feeling good. Oh an getting a healthy perspective across to your kids. So, so hard.
I am trying to clean up the diet. My fitness is on target, however, you know how it goes, if you consume more calories than you burn, you will put on weight. blech. I put on 35lbs. in the past year and had to go up a couple of pants sizes. grrr
That is a good goal! Do you have a plan of action?
THANK YOU for sharing that. That totally hit a chord with me... I want to be healthier too and try to work on teaching my girls (and myself) about REAL beauty. The reminder was helpful and needed. You are beautiful, Cherylann!
Love both of you and think you are both beautiful too! If you even really knew how much so! My action plan is to eat healthy stuff and not junk, very often at least, and to exercise. The holidays and having a sick family have been rough on the exercising (Oh, and the eating). My stress levels are always higher when I don't exercise and then I emotionally eat. I think when I focus on my weight it always ends up backfiring. So I am just going to try to be true to myself. I think when we see ourselves as beautiful, no matter what our size, when we love ourselves!
WOW! What an eye opener that is. I always remind my girls of how beautiful they are for them, but I never thought about how much the world can impact them at even this young of an age. I need to be on top of that immediately.
I, too, have a lot of goals to meet. We need to figure out a way to hold each other accountable for things. I think I would be better if I knew I had to answer to someone besides my self for my actions.
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