Crush-worthy.

Right now, I am in love with my body.

If today were Valentine’s Day, I would be cutting up doilies, pasting them on folded red construction paper, dusting it all with glitter, and and then writing sweet messages inside, carefully dotting my i’s with fat, perfect hearts.

It’s a strange and beautiful thing to look at my body and feel pride and love and joy.  To see the curve of my shoulder or the bend of my knee and think, Oh, yes.  That’s me.  To run that last mile and feel fatigue begin to seep into the muscle, but to feel my lungs still strong and my heart pounding and taste the sweat on my lip and think, Look what I can do.

Dieting distanced me from my body; I had to forget it in order to a be a successful dieter.   I exercised only for the needle on the scale, my only success coming when it budged. 

But now…now, working out is a celebration (yes, sometimes a celebration I must force myself off the couch for) and connects me to my body in ways I couldn’t have imagined.  When you begin to listen to your body and respond to its needs, the joy that it gives back is incredible.

 I’ll never be a fast runner, and I’ll never have a visible triceps muscle, and my little curvy belly will always be attempting to roll over the top of my pants, but this body?

It’s mine.  And I adore it.

8 comments so far

  1. zmama75 on

    I so need to read this. Awesome.

  2. Joy Nash on

    hooray! this made my face smile and the hair on my forearms stand on end.

  3. vesta44 on

    Oh yes, I so want to be in that place with my body. Not yet, but maybe one day soon. Work in progress.

  4. Sassy on

    Right now I am in love with those parts of my body that weight does not affect – my deep set eyes, my feminine hands, my (somewhat) pouty lips…my thighs are jealous of all the attention I’ve been giving to those parts! I”m getting there with the thighs, though. ♥

  5. Sarah on

    This is so wonderful to read. It gives me hope that I can get there, too! I’m really happy that you are feeling this. What a gift to yourself and to us.

    thanks
    Sarah

  6. superblondgirl on

    Hooray for you!!! This post is just… wow. It’s touching to read about someone loving herself for once. A love post to your own body? Beautiful. I’m so happy for you for being able to feel this way.

  7. Lauren Plouffe on

    You are so awesome.

  8. Bliss Chick on

    Thanks for that post, I needed it!


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