10th February 2014
If youth only knew: if age only could. Henri
Estienne
After I wrote my blog on Friday I switched off my pc and
went back to bed and that’s where I’ve stayed until this morning, whatever that
was I’ve had, it was evil, flu like symptoms the whole works, I don’t remember
the last time I’ve felt that rough and I’m just glad to be feeling a little
more human this morning. Ironically I have
my health check with the nurse this morning, the one you get because you’ve hit
middle age, be interesting to get the results of the blood tests.
This was the first weekend of 2014 that I had nice plans,
I had two meals out with friends on the calendar and a massage, all of which
had to be cancelled, gutted I was but I seriously couldn’t even make a cup of
tea for my mom Saturday morning, I just about managed to put her medication up
and get back in bed. She’s not the best
carer though, she was when we were kids she was the supreme care giver but
since old age struck she’s not so good.
Friday morning when I was feeling pretty rough enough, I said to her (she
was still in bed) as I decided to go back to bed, “do you want another cuppa
before I go back to bed”, her reply, “are you up to making one?”, my reply, “No
I’m not really but I want one myself”, to which she replied, “oh go on then I
will”. No do you want me to make it ;-)
bless her heart, you gotta love her, she gave me family a good 50 years of
waiting on us all hand and foot, she’s more than entitled to lie in bed these
days.
Coughs – there’s no medine or sweet that helps, the only
thing that’s helped in the slightest is sipping water to keep my throat
lubricated, my ribs and chest are so sore from hacking all day Friday and Saturday,
I should have a six pack by now they feel that tight!
Anyway I’ll stop boring you with my “woo is me” tale and
get back to focusing on the happy!
Last WEEK people have been posting videos on facebook, “10
years of facebook”, it got me thinking about my 26 years of dieting, especially
after my blog the other day talking about how I’d learned to accept that I
enjoy food and will always have a weight challenge (not problem, problems are
bad, I don’t see my challenge as bad) and those thoughts made me smile although
over the years they’ve made me cry!
I joined Weight Watchers for the first time in 1988, I
was 18 and I didn’t really have a weight problem, I had the ‘fear’, you know
that one instilled by the media, by looking at your relatives who are already
overweight, the FEAR that you will become FAT!
The fear that because you’re not a size 8, you’re not good enough, the
FEAR that your life isn’t fantastic because you’re not slim!
Oh if I could go back to that 18 year old young lady and
have a chat I’d tell her to STOP with the FEAR, embrace life, love yourself NOW
for who you are and go look in a mirror girl and see the REAL you because you
are HOT! In twenty years time you’ll wish you still had the body you have
now! I’d also tell my young self, “you
are going to have some of the best times in the years to come and none of them
are going to be dependent on your weight my lovely, some however will be dependent
on how you decide to think about your weight, your size and your body!” I would advise her to stop with the obsessing
over every calorie, stop looking for quick ways to get thin and stop trying to be
a size 8 because it don’t look that good on her, embrace your body as it is,
love the skin you’re in and notice how most people when they’re paying you a
compliment talk about your wonderful smile and gorgeous laugh, none of them
say, “ooo are you thin!”, there’s a reason for that – they don’t care and
neither should you! I’d say learn to
love food and it’s magic by spending time in the kitchen cooking and creating
food you enjoy with good healthy food, don’t believe that less in more where
food is concerned – it isn’t!
What would you tell you’re young self? What advice would
you give that BeYOUtiful younger version of you, so that this BeYOUtiful older
version of you now could benefit from your years of experience.
Now
there’s a thought for Monday!
BeYOUtiful and have an amazing day, look up at the sky,
even on a grey day it’s glorious.
Everything
has beauty if you look at it through loving eyes. xx
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