The Act of Gaining

I was going to record a flabvlog tonight but my computer is not playing nicely…So I have resigned myself to writing a post.

I am the mother of all procrastinators… truly! I have known, for some time now, that I had to fill in some forms in time for the 31st August but I have procrastinated to the point that it is probably too late now…grrrr. I will be under ‘disciplinary’ action too…which is the worst thing. I am supposed to do them every year before that date. But every blinking time I sit down to do it I find something else distracts me…I guess deep down I just don’t want to do them…lol But, as my daddy used to tell me “sometimes we have to do what we don’t want to do”…I used to hate that saying. It is funny though that, as a mom, I find myself repeating it to my kids…grrrrr! History repeats itself.

So do we really WANT to lose weight. I have been asking myself that question, what does it mean to truly want something? I want to be healthy, I want to be slim, I want to be fit…but I can’t say I really WANT to lose weight…unfortunately you can’t have the former without the latter. They are all intimately linked. By its essence the act of ‘losing’ weight has some negative connotations…when you lose something it is usually bad, frustrating, like when you loose your keys, or your purse. True, in the advent of shows like ‘The Biggest Loser’ and ‘Losin’ It’, pop culture has fashioned our minds into thinking that being a ‘loser’ or loosing weight is the way to go. But have we forgotten that losing is the OPPOSITE of winning. At its very core, the act of ‘losing’ weight is like we are losing a part of ourselves…a big part of ourselves for some of us.

Thinking this, for me, automatically places a barrier or boundary in my mind. Perhaps I should change my mindset and internal conversation from being in the act of ‘losing’ to gaining. I am gaining health, gaining a great body, gaining attractiveness, gaining life, gaining freedom.

Hi, my name is Flabuless and I’m a proud ‘Gainer’…lol I guess I am just rambling…cause I can’t think of anything better to do…since I am supposed to be doing something else…still…its been fun.