23rd April 2013
Be happy with what you have and are, be
generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. William E.
Gladstone
I stuck to my ‘tweak’ and carried water with
me yesterday, I’m even sitting here with my first pint, and I have to say when I
had my main meal I felt fuller afterwards than I normally do, whether that was
relevant or not I’m unsure.
Ate well yesterday had beans & laughing
cow on toast for breakfast (5pp), a nice chicken dinner for my main meal (12pp)
and an oven omelette for tea (8pp). I
also earned 8pp on my pedometer, the weather makes such a massive difference to
how I feel, it was still windy yesterday but at least it was dry. I took mom to Chase Water as she’d never been
before and she loved watched the swans and other ducks.
My oven omelette was very tasty, I wanted to
use up the last of the Mozzarella (12pp) and the courgette from the fridge, so
I fried the courgette with some mushrooms and spring onions in a tablespoon of
oil (4pp), then I linked a dish and add 6 beaten eggs to it, poured in the
veggies and topped with cheese before baking for about half hour on gas mark
4. It was delicious with a bit of salt
and pepper.
Yes I’m loving have Monday free, I managed to
get a load of ironing done yesterday and gave the kitchen a good clean too, it’s
lovely having that balance.
Oh I just want to give a bit of a plug for a
friends daughter who realised her first single yesterday, Rose Redd is her name
and ‘Perfectly Useless’ is the song, she is very good, and I downloaded my copy
from itunes, I particularly love her acoustic version.
She’s a local girl, so it would be nice to
see her succeed ;-) go have a listen.
Have you ever noticed how you wake up some
mornings feeling really good about yourself and about how you look (regardless
of your weight!) and then the next day you wake up feeling unhappy with your
appearance, this is usually because our body has not changed our mind has. This isn’t about your actual body shape nor
size, this is your body image and whether you’ve got a positive or negative one
going on. This also shows that can
change on a daily basis, sometimes when the negative thoughts about your body
surface, you maybe are having negative thoughts about some aspect of your life
too. Most people want their body to be
different in some way, to maybe fit what is considered ‘the perfect body’. And even if you’ve got a perfect body you can
still have the negative body image, because we are rarely completely satisfied
with what we have because our true physical appearance has very little to do
with our body image. Who we truly are inside and how content we are is what
really decides how much we accept the skin we’re in! From a personal point of view I’ve been
2-3stone lighter and less satisfied with my body than I am now, I’ve exercised
and worked out daily, I’ve eaten a extremely strict diet and achieved that ‘ideal
weight’ and still been unhappy with it because then I had no curves or shape, I
didn’t have the long blond hair of the really attractive girl in the office,
nor the boobs of another, etc, etc, etc – you just can’t please a 20-something can
you ;) You can change your body without changing
your body image you see and then you’re still no happier.
This last week I’ve had a bit of a peak back
into that world, I think it’s mainly been because I’ve felt run down and poorly
and if you throw in a few hormones too well that can make you think all sorts
of things! Now I know I’ve gained a few
pounds over the last few weeks but how I’ve felt about my body had massively
changed since the previous week, month or even year – this Happy Owl has felt
FAT! What’s that all about ay? Now my friend told me she read somewhere than
when we say we ‘feel fat’ that’s not really what we mean, we mean ‘we feel……’
something but it isn’t fat, its just that we can’t actually put a word to how
we feel. That’s possibly true in this
case, because today I feel just fine, yeah I want to lose those few pounds but
I don’t feel fat anymore, I just feel that I need to be extra careful in my consumption
of food for a bit as I do like fitting in the jeans I’ve already got and I don’t
wanna be buying the next size up.
But that flashback to the old days of ‘feeling
fat’ SUCKED! I didn’t like it and I don’t
know how anyone puts up with feeling that way because it really drags you down
doesn’t it. If you feel that way, did you know not many people see their body
as it really is, a lot of people imagine what it will (could) be like, this
dream of that ideal body (heck in my old dream of that body I had blonde hair!)
and usually with that dream comes a false belief of happiness and the perfect
life!
Now here’s food for thought, what if how you
think about your body determines how you take care of it? If you think of your body as excess baggage
that you have to carry around with you but you don’t want too, then you are
like to look at your diet in a similar way, you will maybe treat it like
something that has to be done (like the ironing) not a pleasant task so many
subconsciously you’ll reach for foods that reflect how you’re feeling, food
that will enhance your condition of feeling sluggish and heavy, these would of
course be high fat and high sugar foods – just a thought? Just throwing that idea out there!
What if you decided to give yourself a break
and think of your body in a more positive light, instead of imagining wanting the
‘perfect diet’ , why not imagine having YOUR PERFECT BODY, individual to you, it
would of course be healthy, taken care off and loved, ooo I feel better just
typing that idea. You are much more
likely, I believe, to feed that body in a more positive manner with healthier
choices, you’d take the time to prepare a meal with love rather than slap
dash. Have you ever notice how a meal
that has been lovingly prepared for you always tastes better, even if it’s a
sandwich?
So I’m glad to say today I’m back to being a ‘Happy
Owl’, I’ve lost that ‘’FAT’ feeling and I’m sure it was down to me feeling a
bit run down and I’m so glad my mate reminded me that it wasn’t my body I had
the problem with because she was right.
I love me whatever size I am, I spent way too many years not loving me
enough to ever go back to that state of mind.
If you’re not there yet, if you haven’t quite reached the ‘Happy Owl’
state of mind, work on it because your body, whatever its size – is the only
one you’re ever going to get, so show it some respect, give it a bit of love
and feed it good healthy food, and not forgetting ensure you give it the odd
treat too.
Cheers (with a pint of water in my hand) here’s
to you, BeYouTiful because you are. Xxx
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