Blogger challenge week 2 - Positivity

This weeks challenge is to look at what I am actually TAKING up? What am I giving myself? Am I learning something new? Taking up a new sport? Giving myself a social life?

Leeana said in her introduction to this topic that often when you start a journey which is about weightloss you often focus on the things that you are giving up - lollies, chocolate, cake, takeaway, creamy pasta,  curry with rice etc.  Sometimes you do feel like you are missing out, you see someone else eating a piece of cake with icecream and think "why can't I have that? It's not fair!" you have days when you feel like you are denying yourself a simple pleasure in life.  But it has been getting easier and easier to not want those things - my sweet tooth is now happy with fruit or yoghurt.   I enjoy the food I am eating, I get to cook fresh produce, I like it when my stomach is not so full every night after dinner.  I am giving myself a body that is nourished not full of easy food but healthy food!  And that is just the start!

I think I am giving myself hope - hope for a new life, hope for a family, hope for a healthy body and mind.  In the past I have felt hopeless, and I am turning that around and giving myself the hope that I deserve. 

I am giving myself permission to have confidence and to look forward to the future with many hopes and dreams and goals which I WILL reach. 

I have found a great support network on the 12wbt Capitial Punishment facebook page, and on the 12wbt site.  I have built deeper friendships with some of my friends who are now on this journey with me, either cheering me along or even doing the 12wbt with me. 

I am giving myself me time, I used to not want to go to the gym or do exercise by myself, now I really value the time alone - time just for me to clear my head and to focus on my needs and my body.