Losing weight and finding yourself.

Every time we turn on the TV,
Every time we open a magazine,
Every time we drive down the highway,
Every time we walk through a supermarket register...
we come face to face with this unreal image of what we are supposed to look like.
We see these perfect, touched up, photoshopped images of how we're supposed to look.
We can roll our eyes all we want over how fake those women are but deep down inside we all scrutinize ourselves in the mirror.  We all have that thing we want to change, whether we admit it or not...

I feel bad for the women who are on the covers of magazines... to not have your glamorous, gorgeous photo be good enough to be a cover girl photo without photo shop and air brushing.

I see what I see in the mirror, the only version of myself I know.... but what do they see?
This is where the society and media has it so so wrong.
Our flaws are not flaws; they are the original, authentic, one of a kind things that make each of us unique. Although I may not love my crows feet, I still see them as smile lines from happy memories. Why should I see them any other way?
And my weight? I only step on the scale when I go to the doctor!
I have a muscular physique with a BMI that puts me in the average column. My weight, purely based on the scale number, says I'm obese. Granted, I may have 10 pounds I'd like to lose but I eat healthy, run, do yoga, and am very active. I walk at least 6 miles each day at work alone.... I am happy with how I look and feel.

I came across an article a couple years back about Crystal Renn. A supermodel who went from size 0 to plus size, all while keeping her modeling career. It was about how she "lost weight," how she lost the concept of weight and focused on herself rather than the number on the scale...

Now it's not my place to say which picture looks better, we all have different ideas of the ideal body. It just shows that she is HOT, and happy. We should all just take a page out of her book. What makes you happy? Because what makes me happy is not what makes you happy? You need to figure that out, then you can choose to be a size 0, size 10, or size 20. Just be healthy.

You can look at her transformation for yourself right here.