Showing posts with label Shaklee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shaklee. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Sunday, November 2, 2014
You Don't Have to Try So Hard
As a follow-up to my last post, I have not been trying so hard.
Aside from the wedding I went to, I have not worn any makeup other than eye liner and mascara in three weeks.
If I'm being honest, I miss the compliments.
But I like the time I spend thinking more about God or about school in the mornings.
I won't say this is because I haven't been wearing makeup, but doors have been opening up for me. I know at least one of those doors opened because I was discussing my return to my natural state with someone.
I've spent more time writing, more time working out, more time journaling.
This photo was taken today while I was working on a project with a friend. Before I left my house (15 minutes late), I thought about putting on a whole face of makeup, but decided it was unnecessary. I guess I knew in my gut that we would take photos. When my friend starting taking candids of me while I was writing, I said, "If I'd known you wanted to take pics, I'd have been cuter." He said "You don't have to be cute to make history." I'd have preferred he say, "You're cute enough already." But, what he did say is true. I also know I will look back in twenty years and either think "I should have fixed my hair and worn makeup" or think "That was when I stopped caring so much about my outward appearance. I cared more about what I was doing than how I looked doing it."
For this perspective and for a huge spiritual step in the right direction, I thank my friend Maria Atkinson who beautifully walks around Haiti wearing no makeup, hair sometimes in dreadlocks or cornrows, and sometimes in a pixie cut, loving people to life. You are beautiful. If people begin to be able to look at me and see anything like what I see when I look at you then I will consider myself a success.
My conclusion is that Colbie was right: you don't have to try so hard. You definitely don't have to give it all away.
She was also wrong, because there are some things you should try at, some things you should let break you. I've decided to try and walk a few miles a few times a week, and do yoga on the off days if not every day. I've decided to try and eat only food that will nourish me. In fact, my mom and I are doing a 5-Day Reset with Shaklee starting tomorrow. Then extreme clean eating until Thanksgiving when I'll assess my progress.
I think what I really learned is that you have to try at the right things. And the real message is that you don't have to fit into someone else's mold. I don't have to be a glamor girl. I genuinely like pretty and pink and sparkles and fashion, but I like them better when I'm healthier. Until I'm healthy, it's like dressing up a garbage can. That doesn't make much sense.
Thank you for the burst of inspiration today from Carlie, @RegularGirlFitness (on Instagram), also.
And I need to remain focused on the spiritual, the eternal, also. If I was there, and we talked, and we prayed, and we felt God together, does it matter how I looked? I think, not really.
"Do you like you?"
Aside from the wedding I went to, I have not worn any makeup other than eye liner and mascara in three weeks.
If I'm being honest, I miss the compliments.
But I like the time I spend thinking more about God or about school in the mornings.
I won't say this is because I haven't been wearing makeup, but doors have been opening up for me. I know at least one of those doors opened because I was discussing my return to my natural state with someone.
I've spent more time writing, more time working out, more time journaling.
This photo was taken today while I was working on a project with a friend. Before I left my house (15 minutes late), I thought about putting on a whole face of makeup, but decided it was unnecessary. I guess I knew in my gut that we would take photos. When my friend starting taking candids of me while I was writing, I said, "If I'd known you wanted to take pics, I'd have been cuter." He said "You don't have to be cute to make history." I'd have preferred he say, "You're cute enough already." But, what he did say is true. I also know I will look back in twenty years and either think "I should have fixed my hair and worn makeup" or think "That was when I stopped caring so much about my outward appearance. I cared more about what I was doing than how I looked doing it."
For this perspective and for a huge spiritual step in the right direction, I thank my friend Maria Atkinson who beautifully walks around Haiti wearing no makeup, hair sometimes in dreadlocks or cornrows, and sometimes in a pixie cut, loving people to life. You are beautiful. If people begin to be able to look at me and see anything like what I see when I look at you then I will consider myself a success.
My conclusion is that Colbie was right: you don't have to try so hard. You definitely don't have to give it all away.
She was also wrong, because there are some things you should try at, some things you should let break you. I've decided to try and walk a few miles a few times a week, and do yoga on the off days if not every day. I've decided to try and eat only food that will nourish me. In fact, my mom and I are doing a 5-Day Reset with Shaklee starting tomorrow. Then extreme clean eating until Thanksgiving when I'll assess my progress.
I think what I really learned is that you have to try at the right things. And the real message is that you don't have to fit into someone else's mold. I don't have to be a glamor girl. I genuinely like pretty and pink and sparkles and fashion, but I like them better when I'm healthier. Until I'm healthy, it's like dressing up a garbage can. That doesn't make much sense.
Thank you for the burst of inspiration today from Carlie, @RegularGirlFitness (on Instagram), also.
And I need to remain focused on the spiritual, the eternal, also. If I was there, and we talked, and we prayed, and we felt God together, does it matter how I looked? I think, not really.
"Do you like you?"
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
Let's Get Started
It's Monday, Sept. 9! Go weigh and measure yourself and sign up at myfitnesspal.com. Send an email to LW4PC@outlook.com and check out my cousin's blog for all the info.
If you want to see my thoughts and feelings on the process, look at najjustiz.tumblr.com . I'm not going to post them here.
If you have 10 mins, watch this video. If not, just do the steps I said above. This video is from last week, but don't be alarmed by the date. Just watch and join us!
If you want to see my thoughts and feelings on the process, look at najjustiz.tumblr.com . I'm not going to post them here.
If you have 10 mins, watch this video. If not, just do the steps I said above. This video is from last week, but don't be alarmed by the date. Just watch and join us!
Mistakes: Sept. 9 to Dec 30 is 15 weeks - two weeks longer than Shaklee's Turnaround program. Also, the metabolic boosting supplement is taken thrice daily, not once.
NOTE: You can - and I would love you to - join this challenge even without buying any product. But if you want product, I have some! And it's what I'm using.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Countdown to the New Year
Please pause for a break in our regularly scheduled programming.
I am not done with the identity series. I still want to tell you about womanhood and being a writer. Unfortunately I need to first tell you about race and "the N word"...BUT before all that.....
If there was one more thing I wanted to do by the end of the year, it would be lose several pounds. I know I talk about health on here a lot, and you're probably like: "why doesn't she get it together already?" But I am trying. I am a busy busy woman.
But thanks to my sweet cousin Autumn, over at My Fat 2 Fit Life, I am ready to go full speed ahead. And I think you should join me. Check out this video.
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Please let me know.
I am not done with the identity series. I still want to tell you about womanhood and being a writer. Unfortunately I need to first tell you about race and "the N word"...BUT before all that.....
If there was one more thing I wanted to do by the end of the year, it would be lose several pounds. I know I talk about health on here a lot, and you're probably like: "why doesn't she get it together already?" But I am trying. I am a busy busy woman.
But thanks to my sweet cousin Autumn, over at My Fat 2 Fit Life, I am ready to go full speed ahead. And I think you should join me. Check out this video.
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Please let me know.
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