Lately I've been a more aware of diet and exercise, a great thing for sure but it brings me back to a time as a teenager when I was obsessed with being thin. Thanks to good genetics I've always been thin, but there was a time when I'd eat the bare minimum for fear of gaining even an ounce. I wasn't the prettiest thing starting high school and I thought that the only thing I had going for me was being thin, so I made sure I stayed that way.
My problem wasn't just eating the bare minimum but also the WRONG things.
Junk food is my weakness.
However since graduating high school and college I've realized that how the world views me isn't important. What's important is the way that GOD views me.
He made me in His image and He is perfect, so how can I be anything less?
Of course that doesn't mean we shouldn't take care of our bodies by eating right and exercising but doing so in the right way to honor the temple He has created for us.
We can't do God's will if we are physically unfit for the task.
I was speaking to someone recently who had the same issue as me when it comes to body image and eating. They told me that for a while they had become obsess with having a "thigh gap".
I was almost immediately was angered.
This is a thigh gap
I was speaking to someone recently who had the same issue as me when it comes to body image and eating. They told me that for a while they had become obsess with having a "thigh gap".
I was almost immediately was angered.
This is a thigh gap
If only girls would realize how WEAK it looks, like they'll break at any moment! Not to mention her legs probably look like a skeleton under there!
Maybe it's just me, but over the past two years I've worked out my legs so much that a thigh gap is laughable. My thighs touch, even though I'm still a healthy slim, and I'm perfectly happy with it because it's muscle and my thighs are rock hard.
I think of it this way also, if I ever have to fight for my life strong legs without a thigh gap sure are going to help me more than stick legs!
I'd rather have thunder thighs!
The problem with this thinking and the whole thigh gap issue is that girls are thinking that being rail thin is beautiful. Ehh....nope sorry a walking skeleton is not beautiful.
You can be thin, but doing it the healthy way and right way is what matters.
Being strong should matter, my way of thinking has changed, for me....Strong is the New Skinny and I can't tell you how much over the past few months of working out besides running has increased my positive self image.
No, I'm not losing weight anymore....in fact the numbers on the scale are increasing due to the muscle I'm building. And guess what...I don't give a gap about that anymore....
It all comes down to one thing. I'd rather be fit and strong than skinny and weak.
~Amber
