An Act of Self Love

The other day I had an epiphany on Medium while having a conversation with a fellow reader. Weight loss is an act of self-love and it sticks only when your reason to lose weight…is you. Many of us engage in this journey for a myriad of reasons: Health, the upcoming wedding, the doctor telling us to lose it, an emergency room scare. The list is almost endless.

Health is the closest to self-love on this list. Because if you love yourself, you want your body to work as best as it can, no matter your age or underlying disease processes. I speak as a post-menopausal woman with very bad knees, and diabetes that I keep under tight control.

Yes, my knees at times hurt enough for me to take a day off from my almost daily exercise. So when my knees scream, and I have seen the x-rays, they are indeed pretty bad, I listen to them. However, these days I am very fit, with fairly good endurance. I enjoy a good fast walk…at this point, it’s almost a trot. Just listen to a good book on the iPhone.

I have added resistance. Somebody recommended to me Caroline Girvan on YouTube. I am working my way through her no equipment videos and realizing just how much I have missed doing honest-to-goodness resistance training. I have not been a regular at the gym since the pandemic started. While I have done some resistance, clearly it has not been enough.