There is no doubt that we live in a throw-away society today.  Everywhere we look, we embrace the “out with the old, and in with the new” philosophy.  Something breaks nowadays, and we don’t even think about calling the repairman – it’s somehow just easier to buy a new one.  Even larger items, like cars, are replaced with abandon after only a few years.

Sadly, we seem to think that virtually everything can just be replaced and renewed with the snap of a finger.  It doesn’t just kill our sustainability as a planet, it effects how we look at the very core of our existence.  Don’t like your body?  Well, get it botoxed – or lipo’d – or tucked – or otherwise molded into something that simply wasn’t the “you” that you knew only the day before. 

What did we do before today’s craze for instant fixes?  Well, to begin with, we lived with our imperfections.  Take a look at the old “Charlie’s Angels” pictures – oddly enough, even the pin-up girls of yesteryear weren’t perfect. 

We have simply lost something in translation over the last few decades, and in that, we’ve lost some of our personal responsibility to our personal sustainability.  Bluntly, there are no trade-in’s on your body.

Your body is literally your HOME.  You live in it from your first breath to your last.  And believe me, the LAST thing that the mainstream diet and exercise industry wants you to do is the ONE thing you must do – love yourself and take care of that home.  You see, if you really learned self-care and self-love, you wouldn’t need them any longer.  Instead, they want you to BUY THE LIE that you aren’t even WORTH loving until you are slender and can run a seven-minute mile.

Well, slender and fit is an awesome goal – it means that we would no longer be eaten alive with insecurity and self-loathing about our bodies and our weight – and that we would live awesome lives of inspiration and meaning.  But let’s face it, even slender people suffer from crippling poor body image (and there are plenty of full-figured people who seem to be fulfilled and successful).  So where do we begin???

*       First, we need to trade-in the idea about “disposability” that we’ve made love to the last few years.  This is your ONE body and your ONLY chance to be healthy and live long and strong.
*       Second, if that’s true, then we need to LOVE who we are RIGHT NOW.  If we truly loved ourselves, we wouldn’t be eating our hearts out and stuffing our feelings every day.
*       Third, let the healing begin.  Whatever you do, just REFUSE TO DO NOTHING. 

On August 5^th, I will begin a 12-week course entitled, Loving What You See in the Mirror (Crucial Components to Permanent Weight Loss).  I am still interviewing potential participants to fill the last few spots still open.  The first group started in June, and it has been spectacular.  The women are dynamic and wonderful.  They are calling forth permanent change, they are committed to their accountability partners, and they are embracing their own transformation.