Healthy

Good morning. :)

What im going to write about today (now) is about healthy and fitspo. At the moment there is a huge phase about fitspo. I have mixed thoughts about it. In a way you could say im one of the fitspos. And i do have a fitspo IG. (which i wont share here.) But on mine, i dont post opictures of other girls and post dream body or post pictures of snacks for 100 calories or any of that. I post motivational quotes. Food pictures, and then of course myself ;) Things which i hope to inspire others, not to bring them by looking at loads of other fit girls and feeling down about themselves.
  Though i guess everyone is inspired differently.
But what i hate most, is the fit IG's/Tumblrs who just post thinspo... girls who are underweight, and dont at all look healthy and calling that fitspo... Errrm. Not really.

To me, Fitspo/fitspiration means... being healthy. Being fit. Striving after a healthy body. Giving your body the food/energy it needs. Loving a form of exercise. Exercising because it makes you feel good. And pictures to inspire you to become healthy/fit.
  Though i guess not everyone thinks thhat way....

And also, healthy. Many people have different views of what healthy is. Some people consider healthy just eating salad and lean proteins. For recovered anorexics, healthy is considered eating chocolate, ice cream, pizza ... always proving that you are healthy. If your recovered from an ED... the looks you get when you order a salad. (??) And that annoys me so much.
   Before,i used to get questions about why i was eating healthy. Why i chose a salad over a burger, i mean... ED warning right? And it took a while to show my mum and sister that, i was eating healthy. But i wasnt starving myself. I wasnt losing weight, infact i was actually gaining (from muscle i guess). I wasnt feeling depressed or sad, the opposite. I was feeling happy again.
    It wasnt an obsession or compulsion to exercise like it had been before. Now i was doing ti because i enjoyed it. I wasnt forcing myself out on runs. I wasnt forcing myself to the gym, and i didnt spend hours trying to burn off X calories. And i wasnt exercising to compensate for what i ate.
   I choose to eat healthy and exercise because i love it.

Healthy, it is a word with many meaninigs, or many interpretations anyway. What is healthy to one person might not be for the other. I mean some people can live on a vegan or paleo diet and feel great. Whilst others, it wouldnt be as healthy for them because they would be lacking nutrients or vitamins or something.
   Others need meat, whilst others dont. For some people, its healthy to eat chocolate and milkshakes and such. While for otherrs, they feel fine cutting that out of their diet completly.

For me, what healthy means to me, is eating food which i enjoy. Treating myself when i want to. Doing things i enjoy. Exercising when i want to, and doing it because i enjoy it. I dont have any food which i dont allow myself to eat. Though of course there is food which i dont like, i.e mushrooms, sausages, red meat etc But i mean i like chocolate, ice cream(well, Ben and Jerrys anyway!), sweets and such.... so when i want that, then i allow myself to eat it!!

Healthy is different for everyone, which is something we all need to accept. And we all need to find our healthy - where we feel great both physically and mentally and you're doing things you enjoy!!

And now, the last thing which i am going to write about, is the thing with Fitspo. Where, you post a picture of what you eat and if its unhealthy i.e sweets then you'll get some comment saying, how can you eat that. Thats gross. Its not healthy. Well you know what, you dont always have to eat these super clean foods. And second, there is nothing wrong with eating sweets now and again and 3) well its none of your business what i eat.
  And then, when you post a picture of your lunch/dinner - and say its a chicken salad, with lots of veggies, sweet corn, quark, soya beans etc. And you have a slice of bread on the side but is not in the picture. Then you'll get comments like, You're not eating enough. You're not eating carbs. You need to eat more.
   Well 1) its none of your business what i eat, 2) i dont post everything i eat.

 
Its funny how people think its ok to comment about what other people are eating. Or tell people that they are too fat or too thin? I mean who gives them the right to comment about other people!!

Sorry, this turned into a bit of a rant. And nothing i wrote here (or the last bit) was meant to any of you who read my blog!!! XD
 
Maybe some of you agree with what i wrote? About that healthy is different for everyone and such!!