Beauty of a whale.

It has been rather recent that the talk of weight has entered my life. At a check up I was told I was now considered medically 'Obese" or overweight by just four pounds on the hospitals scale. I was heartbroken and I then started trying to lose weight. Looking at magazines and other awful examples of how a women should look made me sad because I was not the "perfect" body. . . . until one day, I stumbled upon this. . . 

"A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"

                              The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way: 

"Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?They would have no sex life and could not bear children.Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad and, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I'd rather be a whale.At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: "How amazing am I ?! "(The girl on the picture is French model Tara Lynn)"

So. . . I might be overweight and have a few problem areas and I will lose some weight for health issues, but I'm not going to starve my self to be something that isn't real anyway. 

So here I raise my cup of hot coco, in joy in my body and the fact that it can do so many wonderful things such as move, dance, laugh, hurt, feel love and someday make and protect life. 

Yeah BODY love!