My Goals

On 7/13/2010, I did my first exercise from the book, “200 Ways to Love the Body You Have.”

Taking the author’s suggestion, I opened the book to a random page and let my intuition guide me in selecting the perfect exercise for me at this point in time.

I couldn’t have selected a more perfect exercise to start on my journey to finally love and accept my body!

First Exercise – Body Love Goals

The exercise I selected was #146, “Body Love Goals.” This exercise involves writing about my vision of what it means to love my body and to live in peace and harmony with it. In following the instructions, I completed the following sentence in as many ways as came to mind:  “I’ll know that I love and accept my body when…” 

My responses are included below and serve as powerful goals for my Body Image Rehab project.

“I’ll know that I love and accept my body when…”

• I stop battling against it.
• I can look into the mirror and see the good first instead of the bad.
• I can weigh myself and not have the number mean something about me as a human being.
• I can wear a bathing suit and feel okay about it.
• I can wear shorts or a short skirt and feel okay about it.
• I stop feeling so self-conscious all the time.
• I can relax and enjoy myself during exercise, outdoor activities, close contact with others, vacations, etc.
• I am able to accept the aging process as a normal part of life and not stress out about it so much.
• I stop fighting the texture of my hair.
• I am okay with the lines on my face.
• I accept that I have larger hips and thighs and stop focusing so much energy on camouflaging them or making them go away.
• I stop yo-yoing in my weight.
• I mostly eat foods that are healthy; instead of eating junk that I know isn’t good for me (except on rare occasions).
• I don’t feel the need to look perfect all the time.
• I can feel free to be me.
• I stop making the size of my thighs or my clothing, etc., speak volumes about my personal worth.
• I eat only when I’m hungry and stop when I’m satisfied (not full).
• I honor its needs for healthy food and rest.
• I stop comparing myself with others so much and simply appreciate what I have.
• I more readily notice my good points than my bad points.
• I stop having all of my niggling health issues (very likely related to hating my body).
• I stop focusing so much on my appearance.

I’m so happy that this exercise was the first one I selected from Marcia Germaine Hutchinson’s wonderful book.  The empowering statements I have written are so important that I decided to include them on this separate blog page so that they could be revisited frequently by myself and others.

What Are Your Goals?

I would love to hear what your goals are for your own personal body image rehab projects. 

How will you know when you love and accept your body?