Fat Talk Free Week: Escaping Myself by Amy of Accidental Musings

Ending Fat Talk is about loving who you are now. But the funny thing about loving yourself now is that you must realize that every day you wake a little bit different. One of my favorite sayings, and one of the things that the Army used to say about a 100 times a day, is “The only thing that stays the same is change.” The same is true with my body.

I was an ugly child, or so I thought, but at 18 I blossomed. I filled in curves and expanded at the right places. But I thought I was ugly, and overweight. My twenties were much the same, until I had two children within three years. My body would never be the same, and, ironically, that was the time that I stated to like my shape. My curves were no longer shapely, and a little more squishy; my exercise routine was more of lifting children then lifting weights; my diet of what I could grab, and less of what I could make. Yet, I found peace with my burgenoning waist line and expanding jeans size.

Not so much peace that I didn’t want to change it. Like many women, I diet and lose and gain and gain some more and diet and lose….and you get the idea. I decided to change how I was going to look at myself. I was going to fall in love with my body- just as it is. That is easier said than done. However, I’ve learned something important. I learned that when you do something out love, rather than out of hate, the results tend to be more impactful. What do I mean by that? Let me explain.

It’s time to stop looking in the mirror and telling myself how fat I am, that sort of thing hurts no one but me. It’s time to look in the mirror accept what I see and love it. When I decide I love my body, I know that I will take better care of it. I will choose and apple over some junk food because I want to take care of this thing that I love. I will take it for a walk, so that it will get some fresh air and some stress reliever not because I need to lose some ‘jiggle’. I will take care of this body out of love. Will my body change? Maybe. But I have promised myself no more diets, no more insults to myself, no more fat talk.

This is Fat Talk Free week will be the first of many for me. It’s time to to compliment the parts of me that I love and accept the parts of me that are less than ideal. Then tomorrow I will get up and tell myself that I love me again, because I know that tomorrow I will be a little bit different.

Amy is Ms. September and the creative force behind the humor blog Accidental Musings.  When she’s not ranting, she’s a professional blogger, owner of the startup Social Pollen, and the creative force behind the Blogger Body Calendar. She live in Maryland with her two children, three cats, and black lab Oreo.  She calls herself the Queen Of Inappropriate, Princess of Randomness, and the Duchess of the Non-Sequitur. Trust me, once you meet her (look at here event page here) you’ll understand why that tag line suits her to a tee.

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