Cue song.....I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller......
I most likely would have Rachel Bilson's body if I put in as much effort exercising as I did wishing I looked like someone else.
I believe it's built in to our very nature as women to compare ourselves to each other. I blame Eve; I don't know how to relate it to her but I blame her. I think it's a part of our curse. What if we just decided not to compare ourselves to each other? What if we realized that wishing you were something you are not is a waste of time and energy? What if we used that brain power to come up with something creative of which we could be proud?
I look no more like Kate Winslet than I did 5 minutes ago.....trust me, I checked.
On a similar subject, I have decided to stop worrying, thinking, and planning for a future I have no control over. Clarification: I don't mean stop preparing; I mean stop planning. Don't stop working out, saving money, and caring for yourself, family, and future. Planning, on the other hand, planning in a year's time you will be "this" size, live in "this" place, or have "this" accomplished is a waste. Life could interfere. God makes the plans; we can only prepare.
I think I know what my future holds. In a year, I will be at my goal weight, having had jaw surgery, and moving to New York or London. Do you think God just laughed?
Matthew 6:25-34
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life ? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.