It’s International Peace Day. While I know the meaning is supposed to be about peace between countries and what not, I choose to interpret it a different way. I choose to be at peace with my body.
I’m only a couple weeks into this losing weight thing and I keep thinking about how people talk about their new bodies. It’s as if they took off their fat suit and put on a skinny suit. When you lose weight you don’t get a new body. You just are making the body you have better.
You have the same stomach, thighs and heart you have always had. The ones that carried you every day while you carried the weight. The same body that never gave out on you no matter how many pounds you added to it.
So today I make peace with my body, because it has always been there for me when I wasn’t always there for it. While I will never be able to make up for lost time, I can start fresh and make new amazing memories through a positive and healthy relationship with my body from now on.
Here’s to world peace.
