Health as a whole on every level! I had been thinking about this for sometime, and then it hit…Media everywhere was covering it….really? Are they really reporting this on MSNBC and my local news? Yes, they were. Oprah, she gained forty pounds, say it isn’t so. Then her magazine came in the mail and that went into detail about how after all these years she was still dealing with her weight. She then went on to do a whole show about it, which was really informative in the sense that many of us, me included, assume once we lose the weight, were done, no more worrying about that goal, time to move on. It doesn’t work that way, unfortunately. It does if you’re a super model with great genes and a lot of bank.
Oprah, made a point of saying this very thing about losing and assuming she conquered it, and that was that. I was glad someone else was thinking like I was, and it opened my eyes a bit. I know that to be healthy, it is me as a whole, not just wanting to lose weight.
Balance is what I am looking for more than a size 4 pair of jeans, not that I would complain if I could slide a pair on, but, really it is balance. When I am stressed, and boy have I had my fair share of that the last half of 2008, I function on auto pilot, not taking care of me, just what needs to be done. Then all that stress makes Cortisol and that in turn has its own set of problems when it is running all the time or so they say.
When I think of Balance, I think harmony, and most things in life running smooth and on schedule, for me anyway. In my search to be healthy, I focused as I have said just on the scale and thinking of food as the enemy, not something to be enjoyed.
Yesterday, I was talking food with someone who agreed with my trainer, if you want to lose weight you should eat bland food that brings no joy to your taste buds. You must suffer to look good. That is vanity not health, and I am not looking to be vain, just healthy and happy with my life, looking for that perfect for me balance.
That is my new focus for my blog. Not just the weight ups and downs and goals, but everything, because I am a whole person, not just the number on the scale. I want to live a long life, with a good ticker, low blood pressure, cholesterol and taking care of the only body I will ever live in.
Now, I am off to look for that thing they call balance.
Oprah, made a point of saying this very thing about losing and assuming she conquered it, and that was that. I was glad someone else was thinking like I was, and it opened my eyes a bit. I know that to be healthy, it is me as a whole, not just wanting to lose weight.
Balance is what I am looking for more than a size 4 pair of jeans, not that I would complain if I could slide a pair on, but, really it is balance. When I am stressed, and boy have I had my fair share of that the last half of 2008, I function on auto pilot, not taking care of me, just what needs to be done. Then all that stress makes Cortisol and that in turn has its own set of problems when it is running all the time or so they say.
When I think of Balance, I think harmony, and most things in life running smooth and on schedule, for me anyway. In my search to be healthy, I focused as I have said just on the scale and thinking of food as the enemy, not something to be enjoyed.
Yesterday, I was talking food with someone who agreed with my trainer, if you want to lose weight you should eat bland food that brings no joy to your taste buds. You must suffer to look good. That is vanity not health, and I am not looking to be vain, just healthy and happy with my life, looking for that perfect for me balance.
That is my new focus for my blog. Not just the weight ups and downs and goals, but everything, because I am a whole person, not just the number on the scale. I want to live a long life, with a good ticker, low blood pressure, cholesterol and taking care of the only body I will ever live in.
Now, I am off to look for that thing they call balance.
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