I’m sure you’ve all noticed that Tiffabee has recently fallen off the Cheeseburger Wagon. But no worries…we are back and in the full swing of things!
To be completely honest, one of the reasons it was hard to keep up the continual blogging was because it really can be exhausting fighting this battle day after day. Holding on to beliefs of body acceptance, which are so contradictory to what the rest of the world believes to be true. Despite blogging efforts, friends, family and acquaintances (who know about the blog and in some cases read the blog) consistently make crazy comments to me about their weight, my weight and others weight. It never ceases to amaze me and I ask myself “Don’t they read my blog?!”
But my time away from blogging has made me realize how much more I need to keep it up. Mostly because it’s so easy to slip back into old weight-obsessive habits like keeping tabs of what I’ve eaten in a day, obsessing over the numbers on the scale, comparing my body to other women’s bodies, feeling like I need to lose five pound. It’s easy to slip back into those habits because they are seen as “normal”, people all around us do these things on a daily basis. Everywhere we turn, there is a new diet, weight-loss commercial or a body-bashing conversation that we can jump into.
So I am making a Cheeseburger Pledge. A Pledge to love my body no matter how hard it gets. A pledge to accept myself for what I am and not allow myself to feel like I have to lose body mass in order to feel good about myself. A pledge to eat a cheeseburger and enjoy it! A pledge to keep up the blogging when the going gets tough. This is a pledge that is necessary for me to make because I can’t go down the road of body hate again. For me it leads to inconsistent eating, over-exercising and a world of personal unhappiness. So take the cheeseburger pledge with me and commit to loving your body, no matter what happens.
Coincidentally, after I wrote this post, I found the above body pledge by another blogger by the name of Harriet Brown who I also received an email from regarding her love your body pledge! Check it out.
A big thank you to all of you who have been so loyal to this blog! We appreciate you so much.
Love,
Tiffabee
welcome back tiffabee! ive been dying for a cheeseburger
Can I make it a veggie cheeseburger?
I will probably eat a cheeseburger tonight. Honestly, I prefer bacon to cheese, but we’ll see how it goes. And then I’ll freak out, try to purge, exercise like a madwoman tomorrow, -oh wait, that’s the old me.
No one will ever convince me otherwise that an in-n-out animal style hamburger is the best. Oh, don’t forget fries =) Welcome back Tiffabees!
Welcome back! Thank you so much for this blog… It’s really helped me to change the way I see my body. I can’t even begin to tell you what that means to me. Thank you
i think woman who eats cheeseburgers are more attractive because it’s an indication of security and confidence in themselves…
Glad you are back! I too find it hard to keep up my “body image” blog for the same reasons you mentioned. It is a tough battle…I’ve recently gained back the 10 pounds I worked to lose last year, and I can’t bounce back emotionally. And I’m wondering if I’ll ever be able to give up the scale for good. It’s blogs like yours that encourage me to keep fighting..fighting to love myself as I am!
Welcome back
… and guess what, without your blog it was difficult for us too to keep up in the mad world. It is funny how the ‘herd’ effect can really get into one so easily that without even you realizing it, you start worrying about the weight. It takes a lot of courage to swim against the tide but the best part of this journey is that you need not reach any shore to have won… the very fact that you, despite all the strong wrong messages, decided not to listen, decided to accept your body and started swimming a different course is victory. Cheers to all of us!
Yay!! your back. It is so hard especially when people look at you like your crazy and you have to think wait no I have good reasoning and proof your the crazy one.
I posted this pledge in my own blog yesterday, and I’m committed to it.
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