What would you do if you were at your perfect weight?
I’m happily married, I have a 12 year old, I’m on my second successful career, I love my life. Yet, there it was.
It’s been there, on and off, my entire life.
I had to put on a swimsuit, and I wasn’t thrilled about my weight. 5 pounds less would have been great. 10 pounds less would be amazing.
It happens, even to those of us who help other women lose weight and feel amazing.
I’d been traveling more, sitting around on planes and cars, stressing over my new project, writing my book. Sitting at my mac. There it was. Self-conscious. Regret. Ticked off. Heading to the beach, and not at my fighting weight.
I could choose to continue this train of self-anger. Self-remorse.. Damn, girl, you know how to do this. You’re the master of healthy weight loss.
But instead, I saw something that stirred me.
“What would you do if you were at your perfect weight?”
And from within me came, “ANYTHING I WANT”.
I came face to face with how weight has held me back, and how weight holds many women back from doing ANYTHING THEY WANT.
I chose to ignore that voice within that said, you’re not perfect yet, you can’t jump on that surfboard or in that sea-kayak with your athletic husband. That voice that said, waitfor perfection, WAIT for the perfect weight, the perfect muscle tone, the perfect day, the perfect swimsuit.
Forget waiting. Who really cares, at the end of the day?
I hopped my butt into that sea-kayak and headed into rough waters. I wiped out, big time. Got klunked on the head, shoved under the ocean, and came up with a bleeding scrape on my leg.
The kids loved it. My husband loved it. I loved it.
Who cares what it looked like? Honestly, who really cares?
