Shake up your life by simply saying I AM WORTH IT!

This meme spoke so loudly to me because I have been there. Have you ever felt like this??

In this weight loss journey I cried so much because of the words on this meme. I felt so worthless! It is so impossible to lose weight without self love. I mean, okay you can lose the weight, but in my experience it will not stay off. You have to love self and feel like you are worth it!

I will talk more about this in another post, but to help you understand why I had no self worth I must tell you that I am a survivor of childhood molestation and rape. When your innocence is taken from you at 5 years old and no one protected you, you kinda feel like you are pretty worthless. For years I felt like I didn't deserve happiness and I was useless and not worth anything!

I gained weight because food was my friend. I felt it didn't hurt me so I loved it. Food was all I loved. As I gained weight I loved that nobody wanted to touch me. I felt safe in my fat. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? You don't have to be a survivor of sexual abuse to feel this way, it could be something else. In order for me to begin losing weight I had to learn why I was eating so much, why I felt so useless and why I didn't love myself. This happened in therapy. That was my first step to changing my entire life. Therapy shook up my life and allowed me to say I AM WORTH IT! don't be afraid to try it.

WE ARE WORTH HAPPINESS!! Don't stay in a bad relationship with food because IT WILL HURT YOU! Don't stay in a bad relationship with self, talk to someone and get help! if YOU are not happy with what YOU SEE when you look in the mirror talk to me, talk to someone! YOU ARE WORTH IT!

I work so hard at this weight thing not because of my external, but because I'm scared it will kill me. I'm scared of this diabetes, I'm scared of losing another organ or my husband or kids will wake up to a dead mom that died in my sleep because of sleep apnea. Why do you work on this? What is your why? We are worth all the good God has for us So let's work! WE ARE ALL SURVIVING OBESITY!!

#perspective #outlook #newlife #metoo #worthit