My pledge to myself
My pledge to myself
With the start of February we all know love is in the air. Some think Valentine ’s Day is an over commercialized holiday others use it as an excuse to pay extra attention to their loved ones. I thought my loved ones, my husband, my friends, my family, and I realized I have a lot of love to give and I do give it freely to everyone, except there as always been one person I’ve constantly neglected over the years, ME. I have always been the first to tear myself down. Usually I body shame myself severely. I’ve always had issues with the way I see body even has an athlete, no matter how low my weight or how high I’ve never in my life been happy with my body. It’s hard to explain how a grown woman is so easily tied to a number (my weight). It’s actually incredibly sad. I know that I take care of my health I try exercise regularly and I try my best to eat foods that won’t pollute my body, I am very healthy great blood pressure, great cholesterol levels, no real problems. I should be grateful that I am healthy, instead I am not I look at myself and I am unsatisfied. We live in a culture where it is some much easier to hate ourselves instead of loving ourselves. So today I am doing something for me. I am throwing out my scale. It may seem like a small thing, but to me it symbolizes so much more, my whole life I am been obsessed with a number, and that number had so much power over me. So I say NO MORE, I will make an effort everyday to tell myself that I am amazing ,smart, beautiful, etc. I will not be a slave to my negativity, NO MORE body shaming…I encourage everyone to take this month and every month as an opportunity to love yourself and throw out the things/habits/people that get in the way of that.
