My love for health and fitness started early in life. Being from a southern family where vegetables were cooked until no vitamins remained and flavored with meat fat and lots of salt, fried chicken or chicken and dumplings were a norm and lets not forget about country fried steak smothered in gravy.
It just was not a healthy diet!
And it seemed that life revolved around eating. And then napping after overeating.
My family was not healthy. Heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, depression, etc seemed to be in our genetics. They had and most still have poor heath and fitness habits that have lead to chronic diseases at young ages and prescriptions to help manage the ailments and diseases.
They believe it is genetics- it is not! It is lifestyle habit.
I did not like what I witnessed, wanted no part in it, and it created a very unhealthy relationship for me with food. In my early teens I became obsessed with eating lean (too lean)- I allowed zero fat in my diet. I restricted calories. And exercised a lot. There were days where I would spend 2 hours on the stair climber.
I was thin and was complimented all the time for how skinny I was. The sad thing is I was not heathy. People wanted to be like me. I was a fitness instructor and certainly did not practice what I preached. I was not a role model for healthy and fit. I was a role model for thin, skinny, and unhealthy.
My journey to developing a healthy relationship with food, understanding its true purpose, and becoming truly healthy and fit has been a very long and personal journey.
I had a lot of healing to do internally, externally, and mentally. I had to correct my damaged metabolism.
What we need to all understand is that an unhealthy relationship with food of any kind is a form of an eating disorder.
An eating disorder can be starvation, it can be overeating, it can be starvation and purging, it can be binging and purging, it can be abusing diet pills, it can be abusing exercise, it can be obsessing over every little bite, it can be under exercising (sedentary), etc.
It can becoming so skinny you feel empty inside or so fat you feel comforted and hugged inside.
Any of the above requires acknowledgement, understanding, healing, and help!
Know this when food is ruling us- we have an eating disorder- we have an unhealthy relationship with food. We think we are in control… we are not in control… food is controlling us. We are using it to starve emotions we do not want to feel or smother emotions we do not want to feel.
People may get more likes for being skinny because people are too stupid to recognize unhealthy until it is a extreme case and there is prejudice against fat people for having no self discipline.
You realize all of the above has no self discipline. All of the above is self abuse and a cry for help that is going unheard.
All of the above damages ones body and the effects of the damage will not hide forever.
I hear you. I see you. I acknowledge you. I understand you. I am here to help you heal and find heath, fitness, and happiness. My arms are open wide to you!
Boy, my 50 years has been a journey for sure. I lied to myself so many times about where I was with food, nutrition, and exercise… and my body. I always had the ability to look myself straight in the mirror and call out my own bullshit and keep pushing forward in my journey to be truly healthy, fit, and happy. I would not change any part of it because it has brought me to where I am. And every step was needed to get here! Every step was needed to appreciate it. Every step was needed to truly love, care, and appreciate me!
I had to get to that authentic place of #selfcare #selflove to participate at the highest level in my greatest challenge yet. My personal journey to heal my body of an incurable disease… and at minimum create such health and fitness that I seem un-phased by the disease.
I know my journey will help others heal themselves once they wake up and are ready.
I intended to write today about more facts around healing ones body and truly becoming healthy and fit from recent research and study. That will be a very important post and it will be coming.
For some reason my heart lead me here in this moment.
I don’t know why and my guess would be is there are so many of you that are not in good health and fitness, you want to be, and you need that helping hand to get started.
Maybe you need to stop lying to yourself that you have it under control where you don’t.
Maybe the first step is just admitting you do not have a healthy relationship with food because you do not have a healthy relationship with body and you need practice in #selflove and #selflove.
Your children, your grandchild need you to take the first step. It will then give them steps to role model.
We all have a lot going on in life. Have you read my recent post… this 5’3 petite powerhouse may be going to jail at the hands of her ex husband who is using the only method he can to get back at me for leaving him. Thats okay. I don’t hate him because that hurts me.
If I do not have an excuse, no one has an excuse.
Aren’t you ready to find your true healthy, fit, and happy self?
This jail bird is here to help!
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