Love Your Body Day | Finding Radiance

Happy Hump Day! And Happy Love Your Body Day! Two great days, if you ask me

Hump Day started off with a bagel! We ended up driving instead of biking as John needed to get an early start on his day and it was actually drizzly in town when we got there. I had a warm cup of Adirondack blend coffee and my wheat bagel:

When we got back from breakfast, I took my umbrella and went on a 2 mile walk to get in some activity.

Lunch time included a sugarless 1 minute muffin topped with peanut flour and blueberry jam. I actually like to split this and toast it to get a better texture than just microwaving it.

So, it is Love Your Body Day. Why just a day? How about every single day. Dump the negative body image and down talk!

Sometimes when you are very overweight, such as me and 100 pounds of extra weight, there is the assumption that when you lose weight you will look like a model. Like the reward of all of that hard, hard work will be perfection. That is sort of the dream image you put in your head. However, that reality doesn’t happen too often. Nobody really tells you about what your body looks like after having been overweight for so long, not to mention being older, and just the shape of what the body is underneath to begin with.

John said that at times I am hard on my body as far as what I see. He is correct. I am working really hard to change that view. So – I proclaim my body is awesome! While I may not fit any TV model of thinness or beauty – my body does so much for me and I appreciate it exactly as it is with every individual thing that makes it unique to me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I won’t work hard to keep progressing, but if I had to stop exactly here forever – I am okay with that and proud to be me.

I worry a lot more about my young nieces and how they are going to view themselves as they become more self aware. As an adult, I understand how we are manipulated by the media with airbrushing and the selection of the 2% of the population “Hollywood body type” for us to hold ourselves up to. Do they understand this? I don’t know. And of course, it is most important to note that this is not just directed at women, but men, too!

Okay, that made me thirsty for an almond milk latte:

And some candy corn:

I was kind of snacky today (thank you, wheat). I had to have the candy corn go up high today as I was nibbling on it a lot.

Today seemed to drag on with work. I actually was productive, but it just seemed to take forever! I was glad for dinner to roll around. I managed to snack on tortilla chips while cooking dinner, too, just to be honest here.