IS ANYONE WITH ME?

Happy New Years Eve!  Warning: soap box alert

This is the time of year, obviously, that many people make the decision to start exercising, losing weight, etc.  It is exciting to me that so many people are thinking of making positive changes.  I hope that when people are making their plans for 2011 that they focus on healthy long term changes.  It is also my dream that people will stop fixating on how they look and focus more on how they feel, move, and live. 

It is sad to me when people are caught up in the idea that how they look or how much they weight is so critically important.  It is most disturbing to see young people (kids, teens) thinking that appearance is everything.  Determining their value by weight or size. (heartbreaking)

I agree that it is nice to look good and it is important to care for you appearance but it is when people define their existence by it, live or not live to look a certain way, count their value by a number on the scale that seems so wrong.   

If diets worked, if weighing ourselves worked, if self loathing worked, if hating our bodies worked no one would be fat. 

I know everyone is just trying to lose weight to be 'healthier.'  To this I say bull*%$.  If your primary motivation is truly to be healthier good for you.  If your primary motivation is to look better so your life will be better or be a certain weight so you are worthy to be on the planet than stop lying to yourself and others and saying your goal is overall health.  Be honest with yourself and others.  Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Companies are spending billions and billions of dollars every year to make us believe that what matters in this life is how we look and how much we weigh. They are wrong but we are buying it hook line and sinker. (too use a fishing analogy, ha) Tv, radio, magazines, office chat... it is everywhere.  We all need to start hearing and seeing different messages on a daily basis. What if we constantly heard things like:
Who you are is good enough
Everyone is worthy
Everyone is beautiful
Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes
Healthiness is much more important than size or shape
I could go on for hours!!!!!

Why don't we hear these messages? Hello, because no one will make money from them. 

So, for 2011 my goals is to take care of my physical self. Be the best mom, wife, friend, boss and human being that I can be.  I want to spread messages about how every person is beautiful, worthy, and capable.  That beauty doesn't come in one narrowly defined form.  ugh.  Is anyone with me?
Keep Moving