Getting your head in the game

Been quiet on the posting front this week but it's been going ok, a few things I ate that I probably shouldn't have but hey ho! I've always stayed under anything I should have normally, so I shouldn't have put on weight when I weigh in later, I just might have only lost 1lb or so. After 7.5lbs last week, I can't complain really!

I've been thinking today though. Everyone who starts off on a weight loss journey thinks about why... why is it they're wanting to lose that weight, no matter how big or small an amount that is.  There are masses of reasons to lose that extra weight, namely that it makes you far more healthy but is that really the reason why I'm losing weight? Why most others lose weight? No, it probably isn't. Yes it's a part of it, I want to have a healthier life but it isn't my main motivation and I doubt that it is for most other people either. I would put money on the number one motivator being 'to be more attractive', 'to look better', 'to wear better clothes'.

As a motivation, that's fine and understandable but I think that it really says something about where people are at now. It's only natural to want to be attractive and to look great and your best, but does that mean that all overweight people are ugly and not desirable/attractive in any way? No! I know many 'larger' women who are absolutely beautiful, but not all have the confidence to know it, accept it and flaunt it.

So what happens when we all lose the weight... does our head shrink with it? No, somehow I doubt that and I think that's a much harder journey than the weight loss is. As we're losing weight I really think that we need to work on our minds too and realise that just because that voice inside your head is calling you fat, or ugly, or saying that no-one would ever want you, that doesn't mean it's true. That voice will still be there, no matter how thin or fat you are. So we, I included, need to get our heads in the game. We need to realise that our self worth, our beauty, our confidence, they need not be tied to what the scales read. You're beautiful because you are, not because society says you're a socially accepted norm. We need to learn to not allow our weight to define who we are and the life that we lead. We need to learn to realise that we are still worth the world now and that we just need to give ourselves a little more self worth, not once the weight is gone, now.