(I know... the title is cheesy, clichéd, and probably the title of some awkward book about puberty but I thought it was funny )
I wanted to create a thread in which we can regain the magic and the amazement of looking at our bodies shed fat and turn healthy again. You know, sometimes the scale isn't as merciful with us and our efforts as we wished it were, but there might still be little changes in our body that remind us that we're losing weight and make us feel amazed and giddy.
For example, talking with my parents on Skype I told them that some of my many chins were gone. While in past Skype conversations I would have made the camera focus on me from a higher angle, or from like my mouth up so it wouldn't catch the chins and the boobage, this time I couldn't stop staring at myself! I was like "yeah! I'm looking good even having the camera right in front of me!" Or for example, I feel my wedding band more loose and my fingers look more like actual fingers and less like sausages. Also when I look at myself in the mirror I see a bit of an hourglass shape surfacing out of nowhere (I was never much of an hourglass shape but then the last time I was skinny I hadn't had babies), and I can't stop looking at it, or looking at my waist and how harmonic it looks and how flat my tummy's getting. Also now as I type this I can actually see the nerves and the sinew in my hands moving as I move my fingers; that didn't happen before, my hands were chubby and I didn't see the movement.
So you get the picture, right? Losing weight is a labor of love. It's a labor of loving ourselves enough to start the journey, it's a labor of loving ourselves in the process, and it's a labor of loving what we look like when we reach our goal. When I was 132lbs the last time I didn't love myself; I hadn't purposefully done a diet so it kind of happened that I got down to that weight and I was still not satisfied. Before I knew it I was back up those 20lbs, got married, had babies and packed on almost 60 more pounds. If we don't love ourselves in the weight-loss process, most likely we won't be satisfied with what we see when we reach our goal and we will continue focusing on that little fat roll under our bra, or the little pooch under our belly button. I am working really hard in finding beauty in the little changes I'm going through, and loving them because they're amazing. My body's changing. My body is becoming slimmer and healthier, and I find that change as big or as little as it may be for now, very much amazing.
Now it's your turn to tell me what little things amaze you about your changing body.
Go!