I'm so sorry I've been lost these couple of days. Work has had me going crazy! I was filming the movie "Pain and Gain" with Mark Wahlberg. I can't wait until it comes out. It's going to be a great movie. The movie is a dark comedy based on body builders...it's actually a true story. I just found out a friend of mine used to work at the gym of which they speak about in the movie...small world. I've also been doing various fitting for fashion shows and some photo shoots, but I am back.
I wanted to talk about a very important topic that every person, male or female, seems to be a victim of. That is, saying negative things about your body and always hating on it. Being in the industry that I am in I see this a lot and I am also a culprit of it. We always seem to be our hardest critics. We always compare ourselves to others and wish we had smaller thighs, bigger lips, tighter abs, etc. I have come to realize that what may seem like a HUGE deal to ourselves, is unknown to others. For example, you may have a pimple in your face and to you it seems like its is the size of a crater and you want to hibernate in your house until you look decent enough to withhold ground in civilization. Truth be told, you show it to someone and they didn't even notice it was there. The same rule applies with our bodies. I am sure that others do not notice our imperfections as much as we do, and because of that pressure we put on ourselves to be perfect, we seem to beat up on our bodies and ridicule it. Constantly saying negative things about it. Without even knowing it, this takes a toll on our bodies. Constantly surrounding ourselves with those thoughts brings negative energy. We are not noticing the wonderful and amazing things are bodies do. How much work goes into pumping blood into our veins, getting air to our lungs and allowing us to have those BIG muscles show through.
If you feel as if you are stumped and have been hitting the gym really hard, eating 100% and doing all the right things, but yet don't see the results you want. Don't go into that negative place and begin hating on your body. Instead embrace it. Visualize yourself with that body you want. In those jeans you wore when you were in high school and tell yourself" I can do it." " I have an amazing body and there is no reason as to why I can not look like those girls I see in fitness magazines." Envision yourself having those abs and tight buns, and I promise you you will get there. I will let you in on a little secret: When I was preparing for Miss Florida Usa and got down to the thinnest I have ever been...around 9% BF I always envisioned the body I wanted. I had vision boards all over my room and bathroom. Whenever I felt like given up, I would look at those pictures and tell myself that I could do it. I saw myself flaunting those abs around that stage. I barely ever said negative things about my body in that time period, and look how far it got me.
Now I would like to challenge everyone to this (It was my New Year's resolution), you must say one nice thing about your body on a daily basis. It may be anything such as "I love my eyes" but its just to help us get out of that mind frame in which we are constantly being negative.
Here's how it goes:
Love My Body Challenge
-Everyday post something you love about your body.
-You can either post it here under comments
- Post it on my
Facebook wall
- Post it on my
Twitter with #lovemybodychallenge
-or e-mail it to me and I'll post it on here with your permission of course
Who is with me??
