The Most Important List For 2024 (and what mine looks like)!
It seems like New Year’s resolutions are no longer ‘in.’ I’ve never been one to keep up with what the cool kids are doing and it appears that this is no exception.
I like the New Year and resolutions of sort.
I like reflecting on the past year, thinking about what I learned, what went well and what I would like to go better. I like thinking about the next year and I like picking some areas from the ‘what I would like to go better’ department and think about how that can be possible.
I also think about if there is anything new I want to do or achieve.
It’s a lot of doing.
So I also make sure to pump the brakes and hold things loosely and try to work from a place of being inspired versus grinding it out to make these things happen.
I think as women we are overly focused on what we are DOING and so often criticize ourselves for what we are NOT DOING. I don’t think this is our fault, I think it is because we live in a culture that values doing and attaches it to our worthiness.
And this is also likely why I was really intrigued when one of my fellow women business owners I’m in a group with talked about her ‘Don’t List’ that she made for 2024.
I think as women we are overly focused on what we are DOING and so often criticize ourselves for what we are NOT DOING.
And I especially like a Don’t List when it comes to having a healthy relationship with food and body. As women we are so focused on what our body looks like and so often criticize ourselves for what we are NOT DOING to make it look a certain way.
And just like doing/grind culture, I don’t think this is our fault, I think it is because we live in a culture that values a certain body type and attaches worthiness to it.
Women are in no shortage of messages of what they need to DO when it comes to food and their body, so I think it is that much more important that women think about what they DON’T do when it comes to food and their body…but in a much different way then women are used to being talked to about nutrition and weight.
To show you what I mean, I thought I’d share mine as a nutritionist who helps women become more body confident:
I don’t try to lose weight
I don’t count my food…in anyway
I don’t feel guilty about what I eat…or what I don’t eat
I don’t compare, my body or my plate
I don’t miss out physically or mentally on family or social experiences because of food
I don’t stress about making THE healthiest choice
I don’t label foods as good or bad, healthy or unhealthy
I don’t body check (that thing you do in the mirror, or while seated, or pretty much any place where you are checking on what your body looks like).
I don’t hang onto clothes that are too small hoping I will fit in them again one day
I don’t ignore what my body is saying to me, about hunger, about what it wants, and about needing rest.
If my ‘Don’t List’ sounds like a breath of fresh air to you and something you would want for yourself but you can’t quite figure out how you balance that with feeling uncomfortable with your body and also wanting to be healthy, I can help you.
I have created a free resource to get you started. Click here to get my free Becoming Body Confident video and workbook series.
Hi! I’m Meg and I help women stress and obsess less about food and their body so that they can enjoy life more and make a bigger impact on this world!
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