An Apology Letter to my Body

Dear Body,

First off, I'm sorry. It's taken me way too long to realize how awesome you are. You truly are appreciated. And I'm only just beggining to learn these things. I'm sorry for denying you food when you were hungry and overeating when you weren't hungry. I'm sorry for saying mean things about you and calling you names. I'm sorry for weighing you and letting that weight determine my feelings towards you and my attitude. I'm sorry for being obessive over things that don't really matter. I'm really going to start trying to be kinder to you. It's hard and I'm only beginning to learn please be patient with me.

I must make a special apology to my thighs. All the years I spend staring at you and measuring you and complaining about you. I was wrong, you were right. I need you strong so I can do and teach spinning classes. There's nothing like coming out of a spinning class feeling awesome and hearing people talk about how fast you went. I hope you appreciate the new spinning shoes I bought. There just for you.

I have to thank my stomach for keeping a small pooch to remind me that I'm a girl and that pooch is special and serves a purpose. Thank you arms for being able to do push ups and hug the people who matter most in my life. Thank you legs for letting me run and feel powerful. Thank you body. Your amazing. I want to treat you better.

Love,

Leah

-Post your letter of apology to your body!!!

awwww! this was so sweet. i suddenly feel ashamed of all the times i have hated my body in the last one year and its always treated me so well. So here goes.....

 Dear Body,

 You are no different from me. I exist because you are healthy. I know after a year of binging and gaining what you mean to me. Your good health and effective fucntioning is all i will ever strive for henceforth.

If i go jogging, it will now be because i want to have a stronger heart and be independent in my old age. If i lift weights, it will now be because i want good stong arms and shoulders to play with my kids and grandkids. And i specially love u tummy....cause i know u are a little more round that I always wanted u to be, but my man loves u just the way you are. And i love u for that.

I will no longer insult you by screaming at the scales and feeling depressed. I will no longer indulge in stupid diets and screw up the discipline on my workouts. I will behave myself and not expect you to work wonders when i dont want to work at all. Most of all, i will stop giving excuses about u to everyone i see and meet. u are such an integral part of me and i love u. just the way u are.

here's to a better relationship

-meeta

Dear Body,

 Hey.

It's been a while, huh? I don't know exactly what to say.

 I guess I should appologise.

So... I'm sorry.

 For comparing you to a shape that you were never meant to be.
For maybe edging a little too close to the bulimic cliff, after all the times I've said I'm too strong for stuff like that, and you're too precious to me.

So um... we've got a long way to go. At some point there'll be a husband and kids, and before all that we need to be really really good friends. So talk to me; tell me what you need, and I promise to listen and not tell you what I want too much.

Oh, I'm Katherine, by the way. It's really nice to meet you.

Love,
Me

aww these are great!

This is an awesome idea.....wow! Okay....I'm game.

 Dear Body,

You are the most gorgeous things I've ever layed my eyes on. I'm so sorry for neglecting you and not giving you the love and support that you need. I guess I thought I could treat you anyway I wanted to and you would always stay fabolous. I wasn't being very appreciative and I was taking your natural beauty for granted.

I know I owe you many thanks. I mean even though I haven't been the best to you...you've never given me any problems. Not even high blood pressure or signs of diabetes. You may catch a cold or the sniffles once in a while but you always quickly recover.

I apologize for these past few years. Especially after we brought Elijah into this world. I took the focus off of you and put it all on him. I stopped thinking about what we needed to function. I stopped caring about how we looked, felt, or anything. But now I realize that I have to make time in my life for you as well taking care of my family and household. Please forgive me body. I promise from this day forward  I will take much better care of you. After all...if you go...so do I.

With love,

Tonja

I think this is an awesome idea! so here goes...

Dear Body,

I wanted to start out my apology by saying that I am thankfull for you. Know matter how much I have let you down, you are still here for me. I'm sorry that I thought you were anything but perfect. I'm sorry that I starved you and dehydrated you, and didn't give you the nutrients you need. I'm sorry for eating so much food at once that you feel physically sick, and I'm sorry for making you suffer for it afterwards.. even though it was my fault. I'm sorry for calling you names, pulling on your skin, and making you wear restictive clothing to look smaller. I'm sorry for screaming at you and wishing you were different.. because you are capable of so much.

Thank you for letting my hair grow back. Thank you for giving me the energy to dance, laugh, run, and sing. Finally, thank you for not giving up on me. I do love you for that.

Love, Amber

Dear Body,

I'm sorry for never being happy with you the way you are. You are wonderful and you deserve to be loved. I will work on that..

 Love me!

OK so my apology is a little different LOL

Dear bod:

I'm sorry you continue to fail me everyday!!!!!!!

With love (sometimes), me LOL

This is an awesome thread... I have nothing to add that compares to what you've said sooo beautifully, except...

Welcome back, Precious Health-

Life restored when once it was sooo limited and said to be soon shortened...

May I NEVER take you for granted...Each day when I 'Get Up...'

When once I often could not...

May I appreciate your abilities even more...

As long as I live...

And accept your imperfections, in the right attitude...

Lest I offend the Master Potter, Who forms the clay as it pleases Him...

For, should the clay say to the potter, why didst thou make me thus...?

He's given me my life twice...  So, I'll not complain about you...

My Precious, Healthy body!!!

2beittybitty

 

* bump *

What a great thread!!!!

Dear Body-

As I approach another birthday, I look at you in the mirror and focus on the miracle that you are.  You've carried me well all these years and I've often betrayed you by not treating you well. 

I'm sorry for all the times I hated parts, or even all, of you.  You carried my beautiful daughter and helped me create a miracle and I am so grateful for that.  She is my greatest achievement and I could not have done that without you.

From this day forward, I promise to nurture you and treat you well so that we may go forward together for another 40 years (and maybe more!).

Love,

Kallie

This needs to be made a sticky thread!

Dear Body,

I'm so sorry for not accepting you just the way you are. I'm sorry for quickly pointing out all your little flaws and taking all of your positive attributes for granted. I'm sorry for wishing you were something you're not. You are wonderful just the way you are.

Thank you for supporting me over the years, even when I treated you horribly. Thank you for helping me be active and healthy. I'm sorry I expected for you to work and heal on garbage fuel.

I can see that you've noticed the changes I've made in the past few months in order to take care of you better. Thank you for encouraging me to stay on this path so we can get healthy and fit together.

I'm still working on learning to love you, but I sure have a lot of appreciation for everything you do for me every day. Thanks for being there.

Sincerely,

Self

Keep 'em coming these are very inspirational to read!

Dear Body,

After all of life's ups and downs last year, I have surely mistreated you more than anything else in my life. I have taken you for granted and realize now that without you, I would cease to exist.

I am sorry for not always treating you well, for disrespcting you and abusing you. I promise you that you will surely get the treatment that you deserve.

Thank you for always being there and pulling through when I thought that I couldn't. Thank you for allowing me to keep my legs going even though I thought they would surely give out when I run sprints on an incline. Thank you, lungs for allowing oxygen to flow through you allowing me to breathe with every move I make.

From this day forth, I will no long abuse you. You will get the treatment that you deserve in every regard. I will no longer tell you that you aren't good enough or pick apart your every flaw. You will get the respect that you deserve.

With Love,

Rachel

Dear Body,

  We were doing so well for a while, weren't we? Thought we were perfect... sorry I screwed it all up. I know the bingeing makes you feel like crap. I'll try really hard to never do it again. I'm trying to be vegan, at least for a month, so I hope you like that.

You can be pretty hot sometimes. Your legs are AMAZING, even when your belly looks a little too round. Hopefully one day I will love all of you, but for now I'm content with a few parts. I hope you'll forgive me for ignoring what you want and need. From now on, I'm going to try to listen to you more, and listen to those silly voices in my head, determined by my mood and surroundings, a whole lot less.

So whatdya say, salad for lunch?

Love ya.

Dear Body,

now that you are back to where you should be, I feel like i owe you an aplogy for all of the poking, jabbing, instestinal terrors i have induced on you!  i promise that i will not deliberately do anything unhealthy to make you even smaller than you are now.  you are perfect in shape, size, and form.  I promise to hydrate you and eat fiber and not eat too much sugar-free foods that i know you hate so much.  I promise to take more vitamins and minerals so that one day, you can hold a little body for a few months! 

let's erase the scars and start over.  my brain will be telling you that you look great, you're alive, and your better then ever.  if it tells you otherwise, please take it up with the heart section for some tlc.  i'll schedule regular "check in's" with you to make sure you and I are getting along.

You are just a fabulous piece of art and I love every inch of you.

Love, ME!!

This is a wonderful thread. I have chills from reading all of your posts. Mine is a little different, but I am thankful all the same.

Dear Body,

I want you to know how much I appreciate all that you’ve done for me. Thank you for being healthy. Thank you for blessing me with so much energy so that I can do all of the activities I love. Thank you for being stubborn and letting my hunger override my desire to be too skinny. Thank you for letting me know when I have overindulged so that I am aware not to do it again. Thank you for making me listen.

Thank you for appreciating my recent efforts to treat you as well as you have treated me. I appreciate it when you let me know how well I have been doing. I love how strong you have made my muscles and how clear you have made my skin. I even appreciate when you act out to let me know I have gotten off track. What would I do if you were not there to get me back in line?

I promise I will continue to treat you well. Please continue to let me know when I haven’t.

Love,

Me

Dear body,

Im sorry I fed you bad food and made you have gas, Im sorry I ate all of those nasty bean burritos from the other night. Most of all im sorry that I even logged into this thread and began to type out such a silly statement=)

Dear Body,

Firstly, I'm sorry for exposing you to blue Panda Pops. These are just wrong. You did not deserve it.

I'm sorry for the years of double helpings and ridiculous snacks. All those times I would go back for another quarter of lasagne or have some peanut butter on toast between meals; did I not think about the effect I was having on you? It wasn't your fault that you stored those excess calories as fat. What else could you do? I was unhappy and ... cold. What excuse is that, really? I have only myself to blame.

Moving on a few years, I'm sorry for not giving you enough nutrients or calories at times. You gave me signs that three cherry tomatoes are not a meal, yet I ignored them.

I'm also sorry for the binging. What have I put you through? Even worse than this is the compensatory behaviour: the self-induced vomiting, the laxatives, the forcing you into exercise when you weren't really up to it, the water fasting. Why did I do this to you? A special apology goes to my heart, the part of my body where I can really feel the damage. Heart, I am truly sorry.

I'm sorry for wanting to remain borderline underweight. I should listen to you. I should let you lead the way. 

I hope that in time we will be more in harmony with each other. I am tring to make positive changes. I hope that when you are hungry I will feed you, when you are tired I will rest you and that I will not abuse you; in return I hope that you will give me health and peace. Who knows, maybe we can grow to like each other?

- Rachel

(This is a really great thread. Sorry that mine is a bit long and a lot cringing!)

You are not the only silly people, Angie! Me, too!

* that crazy dancer thread... right brain vs. left brain... my brain is at WAR!!! ...are they still 'coming to take me away...?!?' *

Isn't this a nice thread, though? We are conditioned to hate every imperfection in our bodies, today!

Especially as women!?! grrr!

After 45 years of it, I want and need and LOVE positive, healthy thoughts!

The younger folks have a real struggle with it- I have 4 daughters who do feel ugly if they gain...

I'm going to print it for my weight loss journey book to remind myself to not allow societies unrealistic ideas to influence my healthier ideas too much!

Anybody else? The more, the better!

Sticky Thread sounds Good!

This is a genius idea.

Dear Body,

I'm am sorry for abusing you with pizza and fast food late at night. While I accept some blame, please know that part of it had to do with Steve.

I'm sorry for depriving you of sleep sometimes and then pushing you too hard. I'm sorry for starving you for those two weeks a couple years ago. Luckily, you repaid me with killer migranes if I don't eat.

I'm sorry for this past spring where I got you all excited to go to the gym and even stuck with it for two weeks before Jake came back and then I gave up. Why didn't you turn the car in the other direction?

So, I'll eat healthy and exercise and you seriously help me out with getting rid of the hip fat.

Deal?

Love,

Nichole