Don't Be Fooled

“she’s probably one fo those people that can eat anything she wants and still be skinny.”

this comment was said about me yesterday as I was about to teach a group of middle aged adults a class on nutrition. 

And it wasn’t the first time. 

For anyone who doesn’t know me, they might also make these assumptions. 

When we make assumptions about other people, we bypass their story, we dismiss their struggles and how they got to the point they are at today.  We are blind to the internal battles they are continuously facing. 

I want you to know I eat the foods that nourish my body because of how they make me FEEL.

I want you to know I exercise on a daily basis because of the strength I FEEL afterwards, because I sleep better at night when I do.

I want you to know I am that girl who packs food in her carry on at an airport because I don’t want to have to buy processed, expensive food that is going to provide me little energy for the day of travel ahead. 

I have mis-treated my body in the past and have worked hard to learn what my body needs to thrive. I have worked hard to help others get to that same point. 

It’s a choice. 

It is a choice to love the one body you were given to live in. It is a choice to make eating healthy and moving more a part of your routine. It is a choice to FEEL good because of the food choices you make.  

Things that comes easy are rarely worth working for and nothing worth working for ever comes easy. 

And it’s not always easy, actually it’s rarely easy. It’s a lot of hard work. And it took me time to realize that the things I put in my body and do to my body are a direct result of how I handle stress. 

I DO eat whatever I want because the food I WANT to put in my body is the food that makes me FEEL good. 

Don’t be fooled, I have worked and continue to work very hard to live in the body I live in today. 

Have you ever been MIS-judged or MIS- interpreted? I would love to hear