Comments on: Is Self Love A Key?

By: Marie | Healthy Weight Loss Diet

Marie | Healthy Weight Loss Diet — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:27:39 +0000

I think self love is really important. I used to struggle with emotional eating and binge eating. It has taken me a few years to overcome these but I think the key to my success has been self awareness, being intune with my real needs and self acceptance and love. I didn’t push myself into changing overnight, I accepted my downfalls from time to time and didn’t beat myself. I still have odd little struggles with emotional eating but now I can nip it in the bud which is wonderful.

I am healthier, happier and more content because I started loving myself instead of punishing myself with instant gratification!

Self love is definitely a journey though. If you take the all or nothing mentality with it thats when you start beating yourself up for “failing” and stop accepting yourself for who you are: faults and all.
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By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:25:12 +0000

Learning to love myself if I never lost another pound was the first step towards my weight loss journey. It was going to be another year before I decided to try and lose the weight, but I knew that I would see my weigh to the end of this last weight loss journey.

Now, I’m learning to love myself enough to respect the hunger signals.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:17:57 +0000

I try to live by the following quote: "Bloom where you're planted." (Mary Engelbreit) To me it means making the best of your life wherever you are, whatever your situation, and being good to yourself and others. .-= Amy´s last blog ..Training for your first half marathon (or 20 K)! =-.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:13:47 +0000

step by step. but as one continues to succeed in this journey to better health, it becomes easier because of the pride in the accomplishments. I’ve found.
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By: Gina Fit by 41 Maybe 42

Gina Fit by 41 Maybe 42 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:31:48 +0000

I look forward to your post about the show tomorrow! .-= Gina Fit by 41 Maybe 42´s last blog ..A Mother's Anxiety (and C25K Reports) =-.

By: Gina Fit by 41 Maybe 42

Gina Fit by 41 Maybe 42 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:31:05 +0000

Somehow I used to think I was loving myself by “rewarding” myself with take-out food or sweet treats (after all, I work so hard I deserve to have someone else cook, etc.). I’m not sure I consciously thought that out, but I’m becoming more aware of it as I seek the junk foods out.

Working on it.

By: JourneyBeyondSurvival

JourneyBeyondSurvival — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:45:40 +0000

My problem is that this time around I do love myself. Before my motivation was self loathing, and using that hatred and other strong emotional feelings about my weight and self to propel myself to the OTHER.

Now the only thing I want to leave behind is the weight. I’m willing to bring all my faults along with me and work on them along the way, instead of believing this is my last ditch effort to obtain my skewed view of perfection.

I need to learn how to love without being indulgent. And how to motivate without abusing myself.
.-= JourneyBeyondSurvival´s last blog ..Weigh in #6 =-.

By: Lori (Finding Radiance)

Lori (Finding Radiance) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:12:22 +0000

It seems I am becoming happier and happier the older I get. Once I quit the negative self talk, I learned that I am a good person and it just breeds positivity in life. Not that things are always perfect, but it sure is better to face life with a positive attitude than a negative one! .-= Lori (Finding Radiance)´s last blog ..Happy Valentine’s Day an Dr. Oz promo =-.

By: Hopeful

Hopeful — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:54:51 +0000

Self-love is very important, but like with any relationship I have with anyone else, I go back and forth between loving, liking, tolerating, hating, back to liking, loving…you get the picture.

However, the bottom line for me is that I love myself too much to continue to feel like crap and not be healthy. I’m fortunate that I’ve found some of the keys to getting fit and healthy, but I’m not totally there yet. One thing I have taught myself is not to be mean to myself. Don’t talk to myself with lack of respect. I wouldn’t do it to a stranger, so why do it to myself?

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:11:08 +0000

For me, I struggled more with SELFISHNESS then the lack of self love. I WANT that food, I WANT to emotionally eat, I WANT, I WANT, I WANT! Instead of working hard at what I was suppose to be doing, I would just eat & eat! Instead of thinking about my family and being healthy for them (& for me), I would just wallow. This mentality just compounded my problem. The heavier or more unhealthy I became, the more I focused on ME and my woe-is-me attitudes. My faith has a big part in how I look at myself also…just seeing myself as God’s sees me and how much He loves me AND BELIEVING it!

Interesting post!!! Hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s!
.-= Amy´s last blog ..Happy V Day! =-.