I'm going to jump in head first here and tell you how uncomfortable I felt in my own body today. It was the weirdest thing. I've worn the slacks and blouse that I wore to work today at least a million times but for some reason, today I couldn't make them fit right. My body felt big one minute and small the next. My chair- the same chair I always use -didn't fit me correctly. Then tonight, I put on my gym clothes for body conditioning class and the same thing happened. It was so odd.
The worst thing was that I got a glimpse of myself in the full length mirrors in the back of the classroom. I looked as odd shaped as I felt. I hated seeing that. I found myself really 'off' because of it. Still, I trudged through it doing 40 minutes on the treadmill, burning 230 calories according to the numbers on the screen while maintaining my target heart rate, so at least that was good. I'm trying not to let it throw me into a tailspin. Instead I'm writing it all in the blog and wondering if any of you have experienced that same thing or something like it. Also, if you have please tell me how you handled it. If you didn't handle it any better than I did feel free to tell me that. Sometimes just knowing that we're not alone helps. It's why I began this blog in the first place.
As I've mentioned before I hope it will grow. I sent it in to the First For Women magazine because I liked that article, which made me read the entire magazine, which made me like it. I also put it in my local paper. I'm hoping to get some other people from different walks of life to join us. I'm hoping that they will tell their friends and so on. I'm hoping to come up with a few not so costly other ideas to get it out there too. If you have any, I'm open.
Today I had the bagel for breakfast, the lite n fit yogurt for snack, smart ones little pizzas for lunch with another yogurt and carrot sticks, wheat thins for snack, steak and green beans for dinner and wheat thins for snack. I also found myself famished today so I ate but stuck to healthy foods. I made the right choices but I had a difficult time with it.
I'm going to end here because I want to get a shower and get out of these very uncomfortable clothes. No- it hasn't gone away. I'll keep you posted.
In the meantime remember: You look as good as you can for today. Tomorrow you will look that much better. Do not let your perception of your body stand in the way of you having a good time. Stay positive. I'm with you. Were all in it together. See you tomorrow. ;-)
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