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Sunday Worth It Sermon
Numbers since two weeks ago:
Weight +5
Muscle down 3%
Fat up 1%
Numbers tell the story…. My snacking on movement wasn’t as consistent this week
This is after two weeks of birthday celebrations but also a whole lot of stress…. where I found myself not eating consistently and not moving as much. Tense and stress are running my body however, other than those numbers and the large amount of stress in some relationships, the rest of the things are moving along great.
I have a couple of volunteer opportunities that have come up this month that I am LOVING! #1 is I am blogging for the non-profit that supports the rock and stroll…that is just starting out. What an awesome feeling to use my writing to be of service.
The second is guiding two weekly online chats for BlogtoLose — a community of weight loss bloggers started by Roni. Our topic this past week was NSV – non scale victories. Both were awesomely insightfuland gave way to some enlightened perspectives. Some AHA moments, if you will.
And last night I received a reply to an email I had sent a few weeks back….Here is an excerpt of what I wrote orginally:
I have been a “member” since the inception of fitfluential but did not believe enough in myself to feel, at my weight, I could influence anyone to become fit when I was so overweight myself and society’s stereotypes of obese people.
But you see, that is just the issue. So many of us, defined medically as morbidly obese, have gotten this way because of our lack of esteem and confidence. We carry with us, the weight of what society deems as lazy, unacceptable, and the brunt of many a haters attentions.
We sit inside our own four walls, longing to join the ranks of “acceptable”. We yearn to have muscles, sexy bodies, and yes, to fit in. We long to wear fashions that can promote a confident, and yes, sexy look, but mostly we yearn to fit into our own lives. To fit into what we know of ourselves, our personalities, our loving hearts, our giving personalities, are worth as human beings yet the perception of others are to immediately shun us and tell us what we do wrong. We are not “fit” to be accepted as we are.
Companies (and some people) do not want a spokesperson who doesn’t “fit” their image of fit so we don’t even try. But the reality is we, unfortunately, fit into the growing numbers (based on a scale) of our population. We fit into those that struggle the ridicule and humiliation doing the simplest tasks.
I am proud to say, I have been accepted as a #fitfluential ambassador and I am just finishing up the paperwork portion. I can continue to be a voice for those of us who are becoming fit and healthy even if the scale says different sometimes.
It has been an incredible month of non-scale victories and lots of forward movement to my word of “confidence” for 2012. and honestly….that’s what my journey is truly about. Learning to believe in myself, what I can do, and well…no more excuses!
How was your week?
