Unsolicited Advice

Day 3. Pass on some useful advice or information you learned and always remembered

My advice: Do what makes YOU feel good. 

{Via}

I have written many times about my distaste for the pressure that women face to fit a certain image. My poor 

sister’s ears will probably fall right off her head if she has to listen to me go on one more rant about it.

If you are a woman you have to be so tall, have hair such and such length, your teeth need to be whiter than my butt in winter, and oh your weight! If you don’t fit into a size zero you should double think eating that extra rice cake.  Pinterest and Facebook are filled with images like "Nothing tastes as good as Skinny Feels" and so on and so forth.  Well I'm here to tell you that my friends, is a load of crap. It really is. Have you ever watched a documentary on people with eating disorders?  I can tell you that Chocolate Chip cookie tastes a hell of a lot better than how those people feel. 

(sorry for the bad words mom!)   

 

Seriously, it all disgusts me.  If you are into documentary type films I highly suggest you watch Miss Representation.  The first hour or so addresses what I’m talking about head on and explains exactly why this is a problem in our society. -rant over 

So do what makes YOU feel good.  For me, eating healthy and getting some form of exercise in each day makes ME feel good.  Eating healthy means getting my fruits and veggies in, cooking meals at home, and giving my body what it needs.  Sometime my body needs ice cream,  

Yes, needs.

 I have never been one to tell myself I can’t have something.  If I want ice cream I’m going to eat ice cream, Mint Chocolate Chip or Half Baked preferably.  You see when you tell yourself you can’t have something, and then you have it; YOU don’t feel good about yourself any longer because YOU feel like YOU failed.  Why would anyone intentionally set themselves up to feel that way?  That is no way to live this glorious life YOU have been given so go do what makes YOU feel good.


{This Post is also part of Amy and Amber's Friday's Five link party through their blogs Coffee Beans and Bobby Pins and FACE IT CATALOG}