I've struggled with my weight for most of my life. If you think of my build, it's like a bunch of different body types smushed together: slender wrists, broad shoulders and hips, long torso, short legs. My fat used to get evenly distributed, but as I've gotten older, it's settled around my middle, hips and thighs. It makes it harder to lose it too.
There are a myriad of emotions behind it too. I've been told by a very wise woman that each fat cell is energy being held: whenever emotions are suppressed, it gets stored as fat. There are the compounding effects of being big as well.
What makes it harder is I exercise. I eat healthy. I practice yoga. I take vitamins. I do all the "right" things. It's hard to convince people of that. It's a miserable business. The disconnect is I more than likely eat too much of the healthy stuff, don't do enough of the exercise and yoga. I don't take brisk walks daily, which is recommended on top of everything. The bottom line is I'm probably doing the bare minimum and its not working for me.
Getting back to the fat is emotional clutter concept-I really believe that there is something to it. I have heard about swallowing your feelings. It's finding a way to release that clutter, and in the future, to remain detached from those feelings to keep them being stored.
Easier said than done.
The bottom line is finding that happy place and using positive forces. I can't swallow my feelings, because I'm not comfortable at this size nor where I am emotionally. Food is not the answer, nor is it the question. I'm working on building a new tool box. I need to take the various parts of my life and glut them together. It's like making a mosaic, little bits that individually are nothing. Together they are beautiful.
I have bits and pieces that I need to put together for my masterpiece.9
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Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity. Margaret D. Nadauld
4 comments:
Whole body health is a constant challenge. I find satisfaction through meditation and prayer as well as eating healthy and exercising. Best of luck to you!
The idea of the tool box and using the bits and pieces - excellent...
finding our healthy selves is hard.Especially when you are trying to make it mind and body healthy.
You've done an excellent job of expressing what so many of us struggle with. Well done.
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