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| The real Black Berry on Black Friday |
What Will It Take For You
To Love Yourself?
A few years back I lost a tremendous amount of weight. I did
it deliberately with great intention. People
are often amazed by the fact that I could lose 150 pounds; I’m more amazed that
I had it to lose.
When you understand
how you got somewhere, it’s easy to figure out how to get back.
After a great deal of research into what the weight loss industry
just doesn’t want us to know, I came to see that for me weight gain was a
result of stress gain. Because I am genetically predisposed to being fat;
stress takes me there.
If you are predisposed to being thin, then when you are
stressed, you will lose weight.
The most amazing thing I discovered during that time of
weight loss was how little I wanted to shop. I truly needed to. Each week, the
clothes I bought the week before became so big that I would look like and old
rapper.
Still, I took them in or wrapped myself in a belt and kept
on losing.
The less stressed I
got, the more I liked myself. The more I liked myself, the less likely I was to
want anything more.
Stay with me, because
I’m really going somewhere. I need you to understand that there is no conspiracy
to make us buy stuff. There is no hidden agenda to make you fat. There is no
secret plan to make you unhealthy.
It’s all right out in
the open.
The unhealthier you
are, the more likely you are to feel that you are not enough.
Being fat didn’t make
me not like myself; not liking myself made me fat.
If you don’t see
yourself as wonderful, beautiful and powerful as you are, then you will never
be satisfied and you will long for joy outside of you and your own control.
Today, instead of standing in a line, waiting to buy things
I don’t need, I’m going to stay at home and love the person I have already
become.
I’m wearing a pair of earrings I bought years ago. They sit
in a tray waiting for the right occasion. That occasion is right now.
On this special day, decide to be:
Less stressed and more loved.
Less angry and more understanding.
Less of a hoarder and more of a giver.
Less of what someone else wants you to be and more you.
You are beautiful, powerful and wonderful; just as you are.
Be you, be well, be wonderful
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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