HATE MY BODY! article

(this was posted on here (?) I believe sometime back but I was unable to find the original..here's the article shared again)

HATE MY BODY!

Yep, there're lots of men and women out there who use that very sentence
about themselves when they send me an E-mail. Oh, they don't use adjectives
like "dislike," uh-uh. They always use the word hate! They tell me about
all the areas of their bodies they hate since, and get this, I'm talking
about after they have lost a substantial amount of weight!

You know when you're overweight and feeling down, you sometimes walk over to
a mirror and stare at yourself in your birthday suit. As you look at your
body, you begin talking to yourself about the way you look:

"Everything on you is fat! You've really let yourself go. Just look at
your legs and your belly. I just hate you!"

"Oh look at you, you're just disgusting! Everything on you is fat! You've
really let yourself go. Just look at your legs and your belly. Turn around
a little and take a look at that fat back of yours. I just hate you!"

Then you get so alarmed by that vision of yourself, you decide it's time for
you to lose weight. You get your measuring cups and spoons. You join a gym
and you're suddenly really pumped up to lose the weight and change the way
you look.

Now get this. I received an E-mail the other day from a lady who had lost
90 pounds. But she still wasn't very happy. Because at 260 pounds now,
when she looked in the mirror, she hated what she saw.

"What a sight! You look like a dripping candle...blowing in the wind. Look
at all of that hanging skin. It's on your arms, your belly and your
legs. It's
really awful-looking. Why don't you look better after losing 90 pounds? I
still hate you!"

Gee, I guess you just can't win. Looks like some people hate their bodies
when they're obese and some of them still hate their bodies when they've
lost weight and are thinner.

Some people hate their bodies when they're obese and some of them still hate
their bodies when they've lost weight.

You see, the lady who wrote me who'd lost those 90 pounds had another 120
pounds she needed to lose. And if she does work out and tone her body three
days a week, she's going to see her body take on a different shape.

But remember, when you gain weight, with each pound you gain, you stretch
the skin on your body. Some people's waists go from 30 inches up to 50
inches as they gain weight. And when they begin to lose weight, their waist
will shrink in size but leave them with the excess skin.

In fact, you're pretty much left with that excess skin in all the places on
your body where you were overweight, which would be all of it. Toning
doesn't fix everything which is why some people opt for plastic surgery to
rid themselves of the sagging skin. But others, like me, choose to simple
live with it. See, the important thing is that we add years to our lives by
losing the weight and, to me, that matters much more than any of those
issues of excess skin.

You should love your body because after losing weight you've made it so much
healthier by losing it with a dedicated exercise program. You should notice
the parts of your body that are changing for the better and not spend so
much time focusing on the parts of your body that you don't like.

And when you're feeling a little disappointed about your body, even though
you've lost weight, that's not the time to go staring at yourself in the
mirror and looking for things about your body to criticize.

Go out and do something physically active today and burn some more of the
fat and calories away!