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Self Image
By Administrator | December 29, 2006
This is one of the times I need to remember when I’ve successfully gotten into better shape. At the moment, I feel so ungainly and unattractive that I’d like to crawl into a hole and hide. Days like these make me wish that I could go off somewhere for six months or a year so I can just concentrate on improving myself. Life would be so much easier if I could just focus on one thing at a time; especially when I’m trying to lose weight.
The problem is that life doesn’t work that way. Even if I were able to go off and hide, I’d still have to come back to reality and I’d probably regain everything I’d lost. I had something similar happen when my family moved back to the U.S. after living overseas for three years. Societal influences in this country are murder on a person who has little self-control in the food department.
Now is the time for me to learn patience and to teach myself to eat properly and exercise regularly while continuing my daily routine. I’ve got to ignore that nagging voice that keeps telling me how fat and ugly I am - and how I need to hide until I no longer look this way. Hiding won’t help.
If I don’t like the way I look and feel, then I’ve got to make positive changes, small ones, one step at a time until the changes become habit. I’ve also heard that a new habit takes twenty-one days to become ingrained so I’ll have to keep that in mind as I start making my little changes.
Slow and steady…
Topics: Health/Wellness |
