Wildflowers adapt and bloom wherever they want, be a wildflower…
I’ve had a lot of thoughts running through my head lately around a certain topic and I just wanted to share my thoughts on it. I guess since lockdown everyone has a lot more time to themselves. I know I have. Across all social platforms the topic on gaining weight has been circulating the web and I want to shed a little light and positivity on this and what I’ve been doing to make myself feel good.
First and foremost this is a pandemic. None of us chose to be off work and told to stay in our houses. We simply had to do it to save lives. Our daily routines of going to work, driving to our favourite coffee shops was taken away overnight. So all of a sudden we were left with a feeling of ‘What do I do now’! Alot of unwanted pressure can come with this, to stay active, be productive everyday and keep ourselves busy. But guess what! You don’t have too. Whatever it is that you enjoy doing, weather that be sitting outside and reading a book, creating, baking, writing whatever it is that makes you happy, DO THAT. If you’ve gained a few pounds or lost a few, chosen to do some home workouts or simply just gone for a walk everyday. It doesn’t matter! YOU ARE ENOUGH, JUST AS YOU ARE!
For me I’ve somehow stumbled into working out again. I didn’t have any goals going into lockdown to ‘get fit’ or anything like that. One day I was bored and I just did it for something to do. I really didn’t expect to keep it up if I’m honest because I’ve been down this road before where I would do a few workouts a week and not continue with it. I just didn’t have the motivation.
I had been scrolling through tiktok and came across this girl who had posted a home workout. Her name was Megan Grubb. I later found her instagram and turns out she does lives workouts everyday on her page. She’s a qualified fitness instructor and has basically made a career out of her fitness journey and workouts. Her positive energy I immediately became hooked to and it felt like I have a friend working out with me. I take one 1 hour out of my day for myself, to work on myself. If I’m ever in a bad mood I know I’m going to feel better after doing one. It gives my days a bit of structure as lets me honest they all just mould into one at this point. Physically and mentally I feel stronger. I feel so much more content and better about my body. I’m drinking more water and I’m even eating better.
We all have those days when we don’t feel like ourselves and look in the mirror and wish I had a flatter stomach or slimmer thighs but I’ve come to realise that no body is the same and I think we need to remind ourselves of that because it is so easy to compare our bodies to the ones we see on instagram and wish we had a certain figure. So don’t beat yourself up if you’ve not been as active as you would like to be during this time, it doesn’t matter. What matters is you being happy and content in your own skin. Listen to your body and take this time to put yourself first.
One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming…
Love Tash x
