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Day Eight
A personal journey to health and freedom through water fasting
Date: 6/3/2010 10:49:35 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1668 times Today is SPA day!! Today I let the fast be all about losing weight and feeling beautiful!
Today I let my imagination wander and create an image of the new, fit, lean and healthy me that's coming round the corner. I got onto a website (www.mybodygallery.com), that gives a person a realistic image of what a woman's body looks like at a certain weight, height, and "shape" (apple, pear, etc.) I was really amazed at how beautiful, and how healthy these women looked at my "ideal weight".
I once had a nutritionist examine and measure me, and she declared that my weight is supposed to be 128 lbs. I almost choked on my coke at the time... Obviously, I didn't believe it, and so it's not been a part of my body image. That makes it very easy to subtly put on pound after pound over the years and not do anything about it. When you don't have an anchor, your point of reference keeps getting changed year by year, until you are suddenly faced with a crisis.
So, having begun the re-adjustment of my body image, I started a little "girl therapy." Yes, I went shopping.
However, I didn't spend a dime! I just threw out my old plus size catalogs offering floral mumu's and 5X grey sweat pants, and got online. I started realizing my ideal weight, 128 lbs, wasn't that far off from what the model's sizes were. Yes, they were perhaps a few inches taller, (and the anorexics I simply ignored). But I started looking at the normal, healthy women; and I started printing off pictures to meditate on, to implant an image in my mind of a fit and heallthy body size, in a knock out wardrobe! At my ideal weight, there is no limitation to what I can wear!! (My mother used to say, a beautiful woman can make a burlap sack look good!)
So I am choosing my new look, not too young or trendy, more like a combo of sexy and romantic is my taste.(but not cheap or gaudy), Lots of poet's sleeves, plunging necklines, soft lace, velvet, and high heals. If I tried to wear any of it now, I would look like a circus clown as I was falling and breaking my neck... My standard fair now is turtlenecks and moleskin stretch pants. Yawn...
I also indulged myself in a home manicure, foot reflexology with shea butter, and Dead Sea Mask facial, followed up with a hot shower with Babassu Oil soap. Heavenly. And a real bargain...
My stomach is alright today. No particularly nasty detox symptoms going on. No hunger. Did notice that it seemed my eyesight may be marginally better (I wear glasses for distance--myopia). I looked out the window and could see farther, it seemed, without the aid of my glasses. Could just be my imagination, though. It's been very active today!
More later...
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