When Dieting, the One Key You Miss

I have been on just about every diet that has ever been presented since I have been in the up and down closet my entire life.  I think back to younger years when I seemed to always be looking for the next "easy" or "miracle" solution to being overweight.  I would not go back to that time in my life for anything.  I also would love to be as "fat" as I thought I was back then because life and babies has added extra skin and fat where I never thought I would have it and I realize that when I thought I was fat, I actually was skinny and fit.  Wow.  Perceptions change through the years, don't they?

A perfect stranger walked up to me yesterday and said, "OH I LOVE your glasses. I wish I could wear round glasses but everyone told me that my face was too fat for that shape."  WHAT?!  Was she even serious?  She let the thought of someone else tell her that she did not need something that she wanted.  The fact is, round glasses don't look that great on me either.  But I wanted them so I got them.  I wear them because they are cool.  That is a look I am going for.  I call mine Where's Waldo glasses.  I love them.  That lady that spoke to me should get some too.  

When dieting the one key we miss is to lose the opinions of others.  We try so hard to lose weight in our belly but what about losing weight from our minds?  The weight of expectations and opinions of others is overwhelming at times.  Most times, actually.  And opinions fly around like dust in the wind on a daily basis.  Today, on this Motivational Monday, let us try not to lose weight in our hips, but in our minds.  May we counteract negative self talk with positive self talk and may we never let what someone else thinks cloud our own likes and dislikes.  If you would like to read more about body image, click here.

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Best Days are Made,
Jennifer