Work in progress
Today I had my yearly physical. I use to hate going to these things because I would hear the same thing every time I went “you need to lose weight!” Up until a couple of years ago, I got over the dread of going because I just accepted that this is what I’m going to spend 30 minutes talking about and that it is what it is. Even though I lost weight since last year this was all my doctor talked about. If I’m going to be honest with myself my doctor is right, I do need to lose weight, so I can be healthy and prevent possible health risk, but it made me think what is healthy? Does one’s weight determine if they’re healthy or not?
Health is made up of four components mental, emotional, spiritual and physical. I feel like society only focuses on the physical component and deems that to be what health is all about when in truth it’s not. You cannot be all around healthy and live your best life if all your health’s aren’t taken care of. The orders in which you focus on these components are up to you, no one can tell you that. Explaining this to people may have them looking at you a little perplexed but you must ignore them. You cannot have one of the components without the other. You see it every day, you have the skinny girl with the nice little body, who is “healthy” and posting pictures on snap like she’s happy but all she sees when she looks in the mirror is that she has a gut, a double chin and needs to lose weight. But over here you have this girl that’s 300lbs who is “unhealthy” living her best life and taking pics on snap in her halter top and high waist skinny jeans posing for the camera without a care in the world. When she looks in the mirror she sees that she has a tummy that’s round, but she loves it anyway and she loves herself.
If your mental and emotional health isn’t together being physically healthy isn’t going to matter unless they’re tied to your physical health and vice versa. You are the product of our own creation, focus on the healthies that are tied to you living your best life. Find who you are and who you want to be not who everyone else what you to be. If it’s meant for you to die or to get illnesses you’re going to get it no matter what the scale says. I am mindful of my health and I know how to take care of myself, the least I can do is try. You know yourself better than anyone.










