Love Yourself

Who is the most important person in your life?

For me, the automatic response to that question would be my husband and my children.  And the Savior.  Next would be the rest of my family, parents, sisters, brother, in-laws, aunts, uncles and cousins.  And my friends.

The one person that never comes to mind is Myself.

When those people we love aren't absolutely perfect, how do we treat them?  Do we beat them up over simple mistakes?  Or are we quick to forgive? Do we think less of them?  Or do we Love them unconditionally?  Why are we so willing to have unconditional love for others, but not for ourselves?

One lady at WW this morning told us that her mother used to say "If we treated our friends the way we treat ourselves, we'd have no friends.

 WW teaches us that our weight problems are not just about calories in and calories out.  We need to figure out why we are turning to food as a solution to our problems.  Sometimes we think we're not worth it, not good enough or don't deserve good things.  It's easy to love other people more than we love ourselves. 

Think about it.  Are you so hard on yourself that if you make a mistake you run to the cupboard to make yourself feel better?  I know I do.  Just this week I sat down at the computer to pay bills.  I had overspent.  What did I do to make myself feel better?  I ate.  And ate.  Until I didn't feel better, but the bills were done.

 So, here's a challenge for the week: Treat yourself better, give yourself some leeway.  When your not perfect, pick yourself up, and commit to doing better next time. And don't forget to love yourself.