Something difficult about your "lot" in life and how you're working to overcome it...
I have a good life. A job, a roof over my head, plenty to eat, great kids and husband, so what is there to complain about, or what is "difficult" about this life? I struggle with a few things and when I think about how I'm working to overcome those things, I think well, maybe I'm not meant to "overcome" them? Maybe by having these struggles, it makes me more empathetic to those with the same issues?
One of those struggles is with weight and overall body image. Can anyone relate? Ladies? I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism 16 years ago and have been on a synthetic hormone ever since. When I was diagnosed I was like, this is great! An excuse or a reason as to why it's hard to lose weight! And ooh, a magic pill that's going to cure it all! But, alas, it's not like that.
I've tried every diet program, some with success, but I'm tired of the word "diet". So this is what I'm doing, now it's only been a week, but we'll see how this goes. I'm going to eat sensibly! What? You've never heard of that? Seriously. I'm doing my best to make good choices. More Paleo-inspired, cutting out the carbs. But nothing strict. If I go to dinner at a friends, I'm not going to not eat because they served bread. So, doing that and tracking everything on the app "Lose It" and weighing myself daily.
So that's what I'm doing these days to help with the weight I've put on (and off and on and off) and setting some "incentives". This all came about because I went summer clothes shopping a week ago and was in tears. So no clothes shopping until the first 10 are gone. And we'll just go from there. It's personal, everyone's weight loss/weight issues are. I don't like the scrutiny of what you eat when someone hears you're on a diet. I want to set a good example for my kids that food isn't our enemy, making good choices makes us feel good.
So that's one of my struggles of my "lot" in life. I wasn't blessed with the skinny genes and so while I work daily on weight loss, I also work daily on body image.
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