A Request

Dear World,

Please stop talking about how much you want to lose weight, change your body, alter your size, skip meals, or otherwise engage in unhealthy behaviors. Please stop obsessing about what you do or do not look like. Please stop having these conversations outside my office door, while we're out for coffee, or trying to eat lunch. It sucks you're not happy with your body - but do you think talking about how unhappy you are with it is going to make you feel better or worse?

Weight does not define you. It's a number - it's insignificant in the grand scheme of things. If you want to work out, do so because you want to, not because you have a goal to change the way your body is meant to be. And please, stop talking about portion control and how much you admire the willpower of others. It's not always willpower, sometimes it's illness. It's a life-threatening condition that plagues so many more people that you'll ever realize.

So stop. STOP! Stop hating on the body that the Goddess gave to you and start loving it, nurturing it, and learning how it feels to be you. Stop hiding, running and resisting. Embrace the way you are - curves, imperfections, freckles, everything else. You are unique and beautiful as you are. Why do we keep trying to fit ourselves in some unreachable mold?

Okay, I feel better now.

Most sincerely,
me