#mystandards

F their standards.

This is me. I am 175lbs.

I wear a size 8 jeans.

I am happy, healthy, and strong

I weighed 175lbs before.. I was on my road to weighing less. I was brainwashed to think according to BMI and, sadly, some people in my direct life, that 175lbs was overweight. Actually, borderline obese for my height.

So guess what I saw in the mirror at that time of my life? You guessed it - someone who was overweight and borderline obese and needed to lose 30 more pounds in order to be considered healthy. I went on to lose those 30 more pounds only to find myself unhealthy mentally and physically unhealthy and extremely skinny. But it wasn’t the BMI scales fault or those that were supposed to be guiding me to health.. it wasn’t anybody’s fault except mine. I chose to believe false truths. That was my truth. I was 175lbs and overweight.

Fast forward a few years and I’ve rewritten my own truths about myself and my life. I’ve learned to love and embrace exactly who I AM.. not what anybody expects me to be or tells me I should be.

I looked myself in the mirror today and LOVED what I saw looking back at me. I saw someone who:

-Doesn’t over train

-Doesn’t deprive herself

-Eats a cookie when she wants one without guilt

-Is not obsessive

-Doesn’t count every morsel she eats and every calorie she burns

-Works out less than an hour a day

-Eats clean most of the time but loves chocolate, wine, and carbs and enjoys them as she feels necessary

-Sleeps well

-Lives a content life

-Finds joy in every moment

-Doesn’t have a 6 pack and is okay with that

-Is more than a conqueror in Jesus.

Someone who is getting ready for her wedding next year NOT by eating only kale but by embracing the moments and the life leading up to marriage… looking forward to the mimosas and loving on her family.

HOW am I this content?