When was the last time that you were comfortable with you?
Have you looked in the mirror lately and said "I'm pretty good looking!"?
Or do you look in the mirror and think....
- "My butt looks too big."
- "Ugh! Look at that cellulite on my thighs."
- "Where did MY body go?"
- "Who IS that? How did I get like this?"
As the mom of a 2 year old, almost 35, and happily married for 6 years, you'll hear me saying those last statements more than being comfortable and thinking I'm hot stuff! There was a time that I didn't think like this. There was a time that I walked around KNOWING that I was beautiful and desirable. There was a time that preparing for a girl's only trip to Vegas (next weekend for me) was fun and not fraught with dread over what I'm going to look like at the pool with my girls. Being a mom and hitting past 30 has definitely done a number on my body image.
But.... I'm working on getting comfortable with ME!
I am a mom.
I am a wife.
I am happy.
I am beautiful.
I am content.
I am healthy.
I am blessed.
Those are all things that I am trying to remind myself of every day because the power of positive thinking is a huge thing to me! I wasn't thinking this way for almost 2 years. I would look in the mirror and think "I'm a mom now" or "At least I'm happy and comfortable." But last May I decided that I needed to make a change of some kind. I was finally ready to start taking my body back from the beautiful blessing that helped to get it where it was. I was ready to not be complacent with my life and to start moving again. I was ready to have energy to chase my enthusiastic little girl around. It's no coincidence that my good friend introduced me to this crazy wrap thing at the same time!
I started with wrapping and saw positive changes in the mirror. Then I added Greens to my daily diet and felt my energy come back. I continued with just that for a while. I got complacent again. I stopped being motivated to take back my body and change my life! Then my good friend invited me to Vegas for her birthday in July. I would be going with 2 single girls who have plenty of spare time to go to the gym and a newlywed who just spent a ton of time working on being the best version of herself (physically that is). That was the motivation I needed to get comfortable with ME again!
My Vegas trip is just a week away now and I am again comfortable in my own skin. I feel beautiful, sexy and ready to rock it at the pool. I am ready to be one hot momma rockin' my body at the pool in Vegas with my girls! I am ready to be comfortable being me - all of me and proud to be all that I am....a mom, almost 35, comfortable, happily married, loved, blessed, beautiful, and sexy. No more will I allow the perceptions of others or the influence of media to tell me that I am only some of these things.
My prayer for everyone reading this blog and participating in our challenge this month is that you too are comfortable being YOU. Whatever that means. I want you to find that confidence in yourself because only when we are comfortable in our own skin can we truly be content with who we are.
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