In Your Skin

How comfortable are you in your own skin. Like most women we have had children, multiple pregnancies, getting older in age, have a hectic schedule and take care of everybody else except for ourselves. It seems like there are not enough hours in the day to try and eat right, exercise and take care of business.

We all know that we need to take time out for ourselves, have a healthy diet and eat right. So why is it such a struggle. Before we know it we look at ourselves in the mirror and are uncomfortable with what we see. If I could just change this or change that is what we say to ourselves. We have the baby weight that just wouldn't go away. We try and exercise and within two weeks we are tired of it and drop off and year after year we make our news years resolutions and say this year I'm going lose it and be healthy.

So what will it take for us to get healthy. Myself like most have tried and failed and tried and failed and tried again and get so frustrated I just quit when I don't see microwave instant results.   I watch all the doctor shows and try to implement the foods they say and the vitamins and the workouts and the everything and it seems like life just gets in the way.   I like some women am an emotional eater.  I just love food.  I have a food background and a culinary arts degree so I am just consumed by food.   I eat when I'm stressed, I eat when I'm nervous and I eat when I'm bored and some of us out there can relate.  Some of us use other things in place of food to deal with all of these issues.

So I ask myself and  you, How comfortable are you in your own skin.  Are you scared to get on the scale or look at yourself in the mirror, take our clothes off around our mates or not take pictures because you dislike the way you look or maybe you have a ton of confidence and this does not pertain to you but how healthy are we really.  This is not meant to make any one feel worse then they already do or beat them up because I have been on both ends.  Healthy and at the right weight and people still said I was fat and over weight and know I'm overweight and just upset with myself.  

We have to take back the control that your flesh has over us.  We have to push beyond the tiredness, the frustration and the mental games that we play within our own minds.  We have to empower our own selves because our families depend on us.  How can we take care of our families if we are not around or sick because of the poor choices we have made.  I know its not easy, I deal with it everyday.  Balancing this that and the other and getting pulled in all different kinds of directions.   But I have to make the right choices for myself because my children are looking and you as the parent control what they eat.   I know a lot of us are on the go all the time and the best thing to do is to grab take out.  Good thing is now a days even the fast food places are having healthier alternatives.

We have to start out small because we did not get to the point we are overnight.   We have to take it one step at a time and one day at a time.  We have to set goals for ourselves.  Find a buddy so there will be some accountability.  Make a plan.  I once heard failing to plan is planning to fail. We have to start to chart out every day.  Family, alone time, meditation an prayer, exercise our businesses etc.   We have to make it all work and when we start to follow that plan we see that we can fit a lot more in our days and get a lot more done.  Write it down, put it on the fridge or on the mirror.  Remind yourself daily that you can do this.  We invest a lot at times on our outer appearance an neglect out inner appearance.  Spiritually and physically. We are starting to break own.  We beat ourselves up or just forget about ourselves all together. 

So go get your life back literally.  Take it one day and one step at a time.  The Word of God says we are fearfully an wonderfully made.  We are a royal priesthood.  So get comfortable in your own skin again.   You are beautiful and never let any one tell you different.



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