21st September 2015
“We are
all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as
impossible situations.” ~Charles R. Swindoll
In case you didn't read the text on the image above it says;
Did you know it is physically impossible for a butterfly
to see its own wings? Did you also know
that the wings of a butterfly are considered to be one of the most beautiful of
nature's creations? They can't see how beautiful
they are. But everyone else can... I feel like people can be the same way.
How true is that, people just don't see their own
BeYOUtiful, they tend to focus on their faults, when their struggling they only
focus on that, not on how successful they've been up until then. I think everyone I know has lost weight successfully
then regained some (if not all) of it and had to start over, I see them beating
themselves up over, hell I've done it myself and we shouldn't, we should
understand how difficult it is and how different life circumstances cause us to
veer off track.
So what do we do when we go off track, we start over, we
start small, we give ourselves praise for every good choice we make, for every
extra bit of activity we do, we stop with the beating ourselves up, we stop
giving ourselves a hard time. Do you
remember when your baby was learning to walk and they managed a step then fell
down, how amazing is that to watch, how proud were you? Did you give them loads of praise or did you
look at them lying on the floor and say "well that was pathetic wasn't it,
is that the best you can do!"
So come on talk to yourself how you would to a young child
learning to walk, please stop giving yourself such a hard time. Take your journey one step at a time, one
meal, one decision, one day, it ISN'T easy, if it was we'd all be thin!
Have you ever been lucky enough to see a butterfly emerge
from its cocoon? The scientific term is
metamorphosis, well it's a long and painful process, it can't be rushed, if you
were to help it along, you'd actually be damaging it because the chrysalis holds
vital fluids important to its wing formation, so if you did 'help' the
butterfly that emerged would be crippled or deformed, and nothing like the
butterfly it was supposed to be.
Just like the butterfly, we too are going through a
transformation, our entire lives are journeys so we are constantly changing
don't rush through it. I'm in a really
good place in my life right now, it hasn't always been that way, I've suffered
illness, heartbreak, work problems, loss and probably so much more I don't wish
to dwell on. I'm doubting the rest of my
life with be 'really good' all the time but I know I'll get through it because
that's what I do.
Even on bad days, I trust life, just hang in there and know you'll get through
it. If I do find myself feeling
bad more often than not, I take time out to reflect on whether or not I'm happy
deep down with what I'm doing and if I'm not, I make changes. And finally I believe in myself, because
let's be honest, if I don’t, who will?
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going
to be a butterfly. So however you feel right at this moment in time, remember
you can be anything you put your mind too, if that's slimmer, then come on let's
do this!
Just BeYOUtiful!
(& a big thank you to Deborah M for sending me the image
that prompted this blog today)
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