Aerobicmom: What it’s all About Part 2

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Becky in Love Your Body, Work Your Body

Okay, this week’s blog posts are actually an assignment from my blogging expert husband, (and actually came from Problogger, Darren Rowse).

And the assignment is this: an elevator pitch.  Basically, an elevator pitch is a concise, but thorough “mission statement” that explains what your blog is all about.  The idea is that if you were in an elevator and somebody asked you about your blog, you could explain it to them in the amount of time you had before either of you reached your floor.  This is something I’ve actually wanted to do for some time, because as I’ve stated before, I believe that the WHY behind we do changes everything.

So, here goes.  In case any of you have been wondering who I am talking to, what I am talking about, and why I am talking in the first place, it all comes back to my tag line.

Aerobicmom.com

Real Moms.  Real bodies.  Real perspective.

Today, we’ll talk about:

Real bodies

Any woman, including those who appear air-brushed on magazine covers, knows that her body isn’t perfect.  Nobody’s is.  In the face of unrealistic expectations and surgically-altered role models, it can be a struggle for all of us to accept our physical imperfections.  For me, it was the overwhelming desire to be a mom that finally motivated me to overcome a battle with anorexia.  Even when I was so thin that my hair was falling out, my fingernails stopped growing, and my reproductive system had shut down, there were still areas of my body that were not good enough for me.

Real bodies don’t come in a singular mold, and hating our own bodies because they don’t look like someone else’s is a sure ticket to lifelong misery.  It seems that everywhere we turn the messages are telling us to change our body:  diet after diet after diet, pills, exercise programs, plastic surgery.  With so much marketing in your face, it gets easy to blur the line of healthy intentions with body obsession.

Instead of inciting women to try anything to “change their body,” it is my hope to inspire women to embrace their bodies for what they CAN do, not what they can’t;  for what they ARE, not what they aren’t.  While I do believe passionately that everyone of us will live a happier, fuller life if we are consciously living healthfully, I never want any of us to waste another day living with anxiety over what we’re going to eat or if we’ve gained or lost a pound.  Heaven help us if that’s our measure of success.

Real bodies are bodies that mean something.  Real bodies have scars that remind us of our past.  Have crow’s feet that remind us of our future.  Have soft spots that remind us of what came from inside us.  Have hard spots that remind us of all the work we put into them and all the strength that lies within.

Real bodies are beautiful.