Reading about approaches to health, people's diets, etc. has me thinking about my approach to health. For so many years I was obsessed with the way I looked and with how I thought my body should be and with what foods could be allowed in my diet to give me a certain body, and it didn't work. I was never good enough, never what I wanted to be, never who I thought I should be. I have a hard time with the idea of a diet, even with the word diet, although I know it is used to talk about what a person eats, not necessarily as a weight loss tool, but I don't like the word one bit.
I think that for me the idea of being healthy really has very little to do with food and exercise, but more with mental health because I think that if we are loving ourselves and wanting to take care of ourselves, the rest falls into place. So I am focusing on me, shocker since it has been what I have done for 23 years, it is something I excel at and am very good at being the center of my world, as I am sure you can all attest to, but I think it is important when we approach health to think in the entirety of it all. Being healthy isn't being a certain weight, a certain size, eating certain foods, running, sit-ups, vegan, meat and potatoes, it is loving yourself and taking care of yourself because you're worth it and you realize it.
I love you all very much and want you to be healthy and around for a long time. I also want you to enjoy life and not obsess and waste your time like I did for so long, it's not worth it. So don't obsess and the love the skin you're in (I stole that cliche)!