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I had the same thought again last night as I was silently cussing out my Pilates instructor, and thatI had after my Cardio Blast Boxing class last week. My old mantra is stuck in my head like a song you can't shake. As I catch a look of myself in the work out mirror(and on a side note why on earth are there mirrors in the work out room???? I hate them!!) and start to react with disgust at my shaking parts, I realize that my mantra is true:
It may not be a pretty body, but it is a good body!!!!!
So when I go out of the shower today I gave her a good looking over. Sure there are many parts that are, well let us say not even close to being "there" yet, but other parts are firming up and getting back to the places they belong. As I looked I remembered all this body has done for me even though I have not taken good care of it at all. Even with the extra person I have made it carry around it's whole life we have still done amazing things; the least being surving my Warrior Boxing Work out class.
Together the three of us. Yes, three. Me, my body,and that extra person it carries. So the three of us have done a marathon, climbed Mt. Washington, 2 weeks in the wilds of Canada canoeing, skiing, hiking, races, ripped out folage and trees, a week in Costa Rica jungle protecting turtles; Oh the list can go on and on. As I looked as each part of me today I remembered what each part as contributed to my great life so far.
Then I rubbed lotion in to my skin that has put up with so much I thanked and promised my body that we're going to do this. We are going to reach our goal and then just the TWO of us will have even more amazing adventures together. Life is out there to run through with sissors, to drive fast and take chances, to taste, to feel, and to scare yourself with as your stand on the edge of a cliff ready to jump headlong into your next adventure.
So to my body: You're not pretty(yet) but you're good. And heading toward Awesome!!!
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