Food: thin line between love and hate.
I’ve been reading, daydreaming, slightly-doing the "getting into shape" or the "getting healthier" or the "losing weight" thing for over a year. While I am no where near an expert, nor even necessarily knowledgable, I know that my diet is the most important factor in quest for a healthier lifestyle and body. Without eating clean, I will never see the muscle hiding underneath these last 20 - 30lbs. Why then, is it so hard to say no?
I buy and keep great food in my house. But everytime someone insists on getting icecream, or stopping for BBQ, or my achilles heel–Chinese, I go along with the plan. I am so overly concerned with coming off as difficult, or obssessive about food, that I eat to assure my friends I’m still the same ol’girl. Its hard admitting to myself that I am not the kind of girl that can eat whatever she wants and still look great–there aren’t that many of those girls our there! (at least that’s what I tell myself 
). I think the hardest thing, though, is letting go of this fear that I have about what my friends will think about me if I am more discerning about my food choices. I highly doubt they will think badly of me. In fact, they will likely be proud of me for making healthy choices. I have to stop worrying about what I am missing out on in the present, and remind myself what I am working to. Maybe I just need a better idea of where I am going?
June 17, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Hey, if you have the kind of friends who give you a hard time for wanting to be healthy and feel good about yourself, then who needs them! Being healthy is a lifestyle. You don’t need a better idea of where your going - you need to decide where exactly you want to go!