Being healthy and beautiful

So yesterday was the second ever Celebration of Real Beauty event; I loved the last one so much that I went again (and took my sisters!:)  Anyway while we were there we went to a vendor called isagenix.  They wanted us to guess our metabolic age, so we did, and then they told us how close we were (I was 25).  Anyway, it was so confusing and I felt like that company really didn't jive with the rest of the messages about how we are all beautiful.  So I decided to do this post on BMI.  I did do a little research on the internet, but most of this post is based on my own experience and what I remember from classes back in college!:)

First of all BMI is not the most accurate test for telling if a person is overweight, for the biggest reason, it doesn't factor in a person's muscle weight. It is simply how much you weigh divided by your height squared.  When finding out how fat you are, there are a lot of other tests that you can take and a lot better ones.

This test we took to discover our metabolic age told my SIL that she needed to lose about 5 pounds, but she was 7 pounds under her perfect BMI.  How does that make any sense?  Then my SIL's mother came and they told her she was obese.  That didn't make any sense to me.  I wouldn't call her obese by any means, overweight, yes, but obese? Wow.  I'm sure that made all her training for 5Ks and triathlons (yeah she'd run a triathlon that morning.) worth it.  My SIL said that she was the healthiest that she had been in a really long time.

Anyway, my point is that BMI doesn't  describe how healthy we are.  It doesn't describe how beautiful we are.  I decided to put my scale away and I have felt so happy about where I am physically since I did that, instead of worrying am I at my perfect BMI, which is about 136 pounds, and I currently weigh 143.  I am still healthy.  I try to eat right, I exercise - and I'm getting even better at exercising!!:) At this point in my life it isn't a priority, my kids are. So when I use these tools to tell me how healthy I am and how beautiful I am I am just making myself feel bad.  And honestly I don't need anything else to point out how bad I am, because those pressures are all around me.  I need things to help me feel good about myself and valuable and beautiful!:)  Because I am and so are you!!:)  Society is so good at telling us that beautiful is this or that, but it isn't.  We are all so beautiful.  We are all daughters of God!!:)  So celebrate your beauty, celebrate you and your uniqueness!!:)