30 Days to your best body ever

Aug 10, 2010 12:04 PM by Kristen Moeller, MS

Posted in Health & Wellness / Women's Health / Wellness

30 Days To
Love Your Body

What if you had 30 days to transform your relationship to your body? What if your life was at stake? Would you step outside your comfort zone? What would you be willing to do? Well, your life is at stake! Every moment you spend bashing your body in any way, shape or form, is a moment you have lost. Let this be the year you stop beating yourself up and start living in self-acceptance. Not only will you direct your energies in new and exciting ways, you'll have the best body ever because you'll have shaped up your body image. Here's a 30-day plan to take back your body and love it inside and out.

Week 1

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Day 1: Breathe deeply. Set a gentle alarm for every hour of your waking day and take at least five deep, conscious breaths.

Day 2: Start the day loving you. Get up before dawn, watch the sunrise and appreciate yourself.

Day 3: Write a gratitude list. Come up with the top 10 things for which you are grateful (add more if you like) and fully apreciate every single item.

Day 4: Ditch the scale! Seriously, unless you have a valid medical purpose, there is no good reason to have a scale, especially if you use it to beat yourself up.

Day 5: Search inside. Many of us get caught on the self-help treadmill, endlessly searching for something outside ourselves, buying self-help books, surfing the Internet. Take the time to look inside for what really matters.

Day 6: Clean your kitchen. Get rid of the health foods you hate and discard the junk foods that make you feel bad.

Day 7: Donate your "skinny clothes." Skinny clothes make you hate your body and lead to a feeling of failure. Get rid of them.

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Comments on "30 Days to your best body ever"

Wow! This sounds like 30 days in personal transformation...I'm up for the challenge. I'm going to print out this list, tape it to my bathroom mirror and accomplish it! Thanks for the inspiration Kristen!

Wow! Thirty days of loving yourself! This could create life-long healthy habits. My favorite is writing the epitaph. Thanks for your great article, Kristen!

Beautiful. This is full of wonderful ways to begin to incorporate mini celebrations of what we already are. Thank you, Kristen. It think this needs to be a POSTER!

This is GREAT! There are some many simple things in this article that we could all start doing today. My favorite is Day 22. Getting massage is a great way to reconnect with our bodies and thank them for all that they do for us. Way to go Kristen! We need more writers like you.

Wow! When I first read the title I thought it'd be about getting the body you want (ie., dieting, etc) but I quickly realized it's about loving the body you've got! Which I know could cause some changes, but what a much more gentle, loving, playful, delicious way to get there. Sooo wonderful! Thank you!

What a simple, yet profound practice Kristen gives us in this fabulous article. I am in! Day 12 is my favorite. My daughters and I do this together and it makes such a difference. Thank you Kristen!

In 30 Days to Love Your Body, author Kristen Moeller nails it. My favorite tip of hers is to acknowledge and appreciate strangers, say hi, smile etc. Ive found that practicing this simple step makes the other person feel good but makes you, the compliment giver, feel even better!