Thank you for sharing your experiences, now and throughout the year. So often they relate to what I am going through.
For example, I *just* started exploring the wide world of makeup by getting some tinted lip balm yesterday and putting on some nail polish for the first time in years. I had been thinking of stocking up on lip balm since it is on sale and, you know, sales. Now I know to avoid that pitfall! Although I may get one other color that the nice person at the counter recommended...
I am also planning on making some posts about weight loss/body image sometime in the upcoming...something. It's strange, I am struggling with the "less weight means more beautiful" mentality/poison of our culture. However, what I'm really enjoying about the weight loss is that it is SO much easier to exercise with less to move around. Before when I did some kneeling push-ups in physical therapy, or planks, or anything involving my core, I had a much bigger belly weight working against trying to pull me out of alignment. Now there is still some belly there, but it is still way easier to do those movements. And don't get me started on stretching and flexibility. I know it's not just the Lyme treatment, because I have had times before when treatment was going well and I could do more time on the bicycle or more reps than I am doing now, and I was in better condition...but the exercises were still harder to do. So I'm really looking forward to seeing how far I can go. And knowing that at some point a flare will probably knock me off my trajectory, because that's the way it rolls.
I am also enjoying being a smaller size partly because in our fat-biased culture, it is easier to find clothes that I like at cheaper prices. This does not always hold true in thrift stores, but certainly it is nice not to always have to go to a special store if I want to buy something new instead of used.
Anyway, /ramble. I wish you a happy new year as well, filled with all the good things!
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trigger warning: this reply also talks about weight (and exercise)
Date: 2013-01-01 02:09 pm (UTC)For example, I *just* started exploring the wide world of makeup by getting some tinted lip balm yesterday and putting on some nail polish for the first time in years. I had been thinking of stocking up on lip balm since it is on sale and, you know, sales. Now I know to avoid that pitfall! Although I may get one other color that the nice person at the counter recommended...
I am also planning on making some posts about weight loss/body image sometime in the upcoming...something. It's strange, I am struggling with the "less weight means more beautiful" mentality/poison of our culture. However, what I'm really enjoying about the weight loss is that it is SO much easier to exercise with less to move around. Before when I did some kneeling push-ups in physical therapy, or planks, or anything involving my core, I had a much bigger belly weight working against trying to pull me out of alignment. Now there is still some belly there, but it is still way easier to do those movements. And don't get me started on stretching and flexibility. I know it's not just the Lyme treatment, because I have had times before when treatment was going well and I could do more time on the bicycle or more reps than I am doing now, and I was in better condition...but the exercises were still harder to do. So I'm really looking forward to seeing how far I can go. And knowing that at some point a flare will probably knock me off my trajectory, because that's the way it rolls.
I am also enjoying being a smaller size partly because in our fat-biased culture, it is easier to find clothes that I like at cheaper prices. This does not always hold true in thrift stores, but certainly it is nice not to always have to go to a special store if I want to buy something new instead of used.
Anyway, /ramble. I wish you a happy new year as well, filled with all the good things!