As mentioned before, I failed miserably with my challenge last week of going to the gym twice in the morning. It's another week and I have an opportunity to make changes that will change my life forever. As mentioned before I have been reading a lot of blogs to keep myself motivated. As I was reading these blogs it suddenly hit me - because my health is at risk I have to make losing weight a major priority in my life. I do not want to be obsessive about it but I need to make it a priority. That is going to be a major challenge in my life because I have a tendency of being obsessive about something and wanting to do it all the time until I get sick of it or lose interest. My obsession mostly has to do with food. I remember a few months ago I went through a stage where I only wanted to eat Milk Tart. My supper would be milk tart and for dessert.... you guessed it! Milk Tart. Needless to say, I am not seriously over milk tarts. I would rather eat my toes than eat milk tart again. I did the same with pies before that.
My relationship with food is not the healthy. I believe that a person consists of body, mind and spirit. In order to have perfect harmony as a person the three elements need to be in sync with each other. If one element is lacking it throws the harmony completely off. It is like a three legged table. If one leg is too short or too long or weak then the table will not fully be able to carry out its purpose. This means that I need to make sure that I tweak every single leg to make sure that there is perfect harmony. Food fills some sort of void and clearly it hasn't worked because if it had the void would be filled and I would magically stop eating and I would carry on with life. Jada Pinkett-Smith was quoted saying that she grew up knowing food was for sustenance and nothing more. Her grandmother drilled that into her and as a result, she does not go on binging episodes or starve herself for she fears she'll gain weight. She eats to fuel her body so that she could carry on with life. How legend is that??? If I should ever have kids I want to teach them that lesson. It is so valuable. Its really one way of curbing obesity in kids. It is a mentality that I am completely adopting.
I am also amazed at how there are so many people who are dying of hunger in the world yet there is also an epidemic of obesity. South Africa, I read, is the second or third fattest country in the world. How does that work??? The continent is riddled with poverty but we are still fat. The scale is really off. Something needs to be done and it starts with me. I don't know how, what, where, when but I need to do something. A friend of mine and I used to say we will change the world with one life at a time. I can't wait for the future. The future is here and it is now.
The challenge continues:
Week 1 - drink 2 litres of water
Week 2 - go to the gym twice a week before going to work
Week 3 - commit to six visits to the gym
My challenge with regards to the mind is to follow up on my varsity application.
Spirit - meditate more.
We'll chat later!
xo
Mother Larder
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