Showing posts with label embracing life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label embracing life. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Coping with stress and trying to concentrate.

At my almost target weight I am the heaviest ive been in over 18 months, I eat more than I have in over 2 years, I have more energy; so why am i not better yet? I feel like im stuck, in a limbo between the healthiness of my body and the instability of my mind. I'm nearing my college deadline but all i can focus my attention on is calories, food and calories. Did I say calories twice?

Why is it that it is only once your better you really are able to notice how much you've royally fucked up your body (apologies for the language but there is no other term for it), I am grateful for the perks oif recovery and i can honestly reassure you that it is heaps better than being consumed in a warped world of your eating disorder but my god, its tough.

At a critically low BMI i felt strong, like i could take on the world, that there was absolutely nothing wrong with my concentration, that i was the best. I obviously am aware that that is not true, but here I am a 'healthy weight' i have no excuse to be 'struggling' yet I'm sitting here correcting the fact I've written 'hear' not 'here'. I know full well i am overly critical, but there is no reason to not be able to concentrate now, i am no longer malnourished ir starved, so why am i so distracted and pre-occupied all the time.

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Adoration of Pepsi max

I am completely infatuated with the new Pepsi max advert, though I am by no means surprised that such a delicious, beautiful product could produce such an amazing advert. 

The new advert feature beyonce, an all round fabulous woman and amazing role model with a curvaceous, healthy figure. The slogan used is, 'embrace your past, live for now'. I think it's a brilliant message and it's so enlightening. There are so many negative messages fed from the media and to have something like this fed from something that is, maximum taste; zero calories, makes me realise that it's not all bad.

Embracing my past is difficult, presumably I'm supposed to learn from it, if I'm honest I feel I am being haunted by it if anything. I can remember feeling horrendously unhappy, though the majority of the time I was blissfully happy, yet all I can remember is negativity. I want to be able to embrace where I've come from, but I'd rather be something new. Perhaps the key, learning from the past, 'embracing' it as it were may translate and interpret to realising your past is where you've been and don't want to go again. So you begin shaping now, as you live for now.