Embrace your Awesomeness!

RockinOilyMomma wrote: »

Great post! Negative thinking has been soooooo deeply ingrained in me since childhood. I a reading the book You Are a Badass right now and trying to learn to stop expecting so little of myself. Hope everyone is having a good week.

That's a great book!

I just finished Big Magic which is all about living a creative life! So good!

Today I walked and moved. It felt good.

I've always loved animals, and used to scare my mum running around with all the stray dogs. Sometimes I think she's convinced that I'll be mauled to death one day. My husband just rolls his eyes at me. A few weeks back there was a stray pit mix terrorizing the neighborhood. I lured him into our house and quickly became friends. Whilst sitting and contacting a local no kill shelter here, he plopped his slobbery head in my lap. Unfortunately, Buddy wasn't a fan of anyone else, including my husband, so he had to go. And, needless to say, my husband is much more welcoming of Miss Kitters wandering in from time to time (yes, I name all the wanderers).

UGH - reality check! Mine came almost a month ago when I saw a picture of myself in a bikini on a paddle board and I realized that my bikini body morphed into my body in a bikini. It definitely makes you want to get moving more and focus more on what you're eating.

We have three awesome cats (to our two-human household) and have to actively avoid acquiring more animals. We donate to our local animal charities on the regular and I have so much respect for people who volunteer their time!

My recent wake up call actually came with the sprained ankle from a couple of weeks ago. My partner, who is super strong, was having a hard time getting me up off the pavement. It wasn't an awesome feeling, but what has been awesome is just calmly, reasonably, sustainably measuring food, logging all my meals and exercise, and non-judgementally weighing myself and seeing the scale steadily move downwards. I've logged into MFP for 15 days now and was using the FitBit ap for a few days before that - longest I've ever kept up tracking.

That does feel pretty awesome.

Feeling good today - lost 2lbs so finally starting to see some results!

Years ago when I was learning to box - for fun not competition - my trainer pointed at my legs and said, “you’ve got these massive thighs. Use them.” For a moment I was horrified until I realized he was right. My punches really held more weight when I used my legs. It wasn’t until then that I looked at my legs as powerful and strong instead of simply big. So, yeah, I have massive thighs that have a little more fat wrapped around them than I prefer, but they’ve made their way up on the list of body parts that I’m ok with. At the bottom of the list are my hands and feet. Hands because they’re always numb and I drop things all the time, and feet because I had surgery on the left last year and have to do the same on the right in the next couple of years. I suppose at least after that I’ll have matching scars...

I might be a little crazy, but every time I look in the mirror or just feel a down, I say out loud, "I got this" sometimes have to repeat it 4-5 times till it sets in. Since joining mfp I may change the mantra to "we got this" we are all stronger than we think "WE GOT THIS!"