Body Love Revolution

02/05/2025

Feeling very tired. I am happy that my work is very busy, since I am self-employed, but adjusting to a new work schedule and continuing self-care. I need to stay focused on staying connected to myself. Karen Cigna

29/04/2025

Happy Tasting Tuesday!!!! Are you truly present in your eating experiences and tasting your food? If not, you might be too preoccupied with fearing you will gain weight. We cannot truly experience eating and tasting our food, if we are too busy fearing weight gain. I had to take a leap of faith, when I first began intuitive eating, that I could trust myself, my body and my hunger. Doing so despite the fear is what helped me stop fearing weight gain. I decided everything I was doing was not working, so I had nothing to lose other than obsession with dieting, food and body size. Karen Cigna

24/04/2025

We should be thanking our bodies every day for how much they do for us as they walk us through the thick and thin of our lives. They deserve appreciation for always standing up for us even though we have bullied them by calling them mean names and treating them badly, when we did not know better. We have taken our bodies being there for us for granted. We can’t change how we treated our bodies in the past, but today we can treat our bodies with the love, appreciation and respect they deserve. Karen Cigna

23/04/2025

Happy Weigh-In Wednesday!!!! NOT ON A SCALE!!!! Instead of a scale, let’s weigh-in with ourselves as to what we are feeling and what we need. For years, I believed a lower number on the scale would bring me health, confidence, self-worth, would make me feel good enough/loveable, and would solve all of my problems. Even at my lowest weight of a size 2, it never brought me any of the above. How I felt about myself had nothing to do with the number on the scale. It had everything to do with how I felt about myself from the inside-out, which cannot be measured on a scale. The size of my life is no longer defined by the size of my body. The size of my life is defined by the size of my heart and having a voice to speak what is in my heart. Karen Cigna

21/04/2025

Don’t compare your body with the bodies of others. Every body has their own journey. Whether some body is thinner or heavier than your body, is of no relevance to your journey and to what is going on inside of you and outside of you. Some body else’s weight has nothing to do with your relationship with yourself, your body, your hunger and food. Keep the focus on you and your journey. Karen Cigna

12/04/2025

On some level it is scary letting an eating disorder go. After all, it’s been a way of coping with feelings and needs by starving or stuffing them away with food we do not need. It’s been a protector and defense mechanism for experiences we could not deal with. It’s been the false promise that if we attain some perfect weight, there is no such thing, all of our problems will be solved, and we will be good enough and loved. It’s the only relationship many of us can ever remember having with food. There is a diet culture, a body shaming culture, a body size/ weight obsessed culture, all of which we will have to let go of. It’s about facing the underlying reasons why we have been out-of-control and/ or obsessively in control of our food. It’s about telling painful truths about our trauma, family and friends. Nonetheless, letting go of our eating disorders is worth facing all of the above, especially the fear of letting go. The rewards are amazing as we learn new coping mechanisms that are constructive to protect ourselves. The finding of our voices to speak of the feelings and needs, we could not identify or speak of is liberating. We all need to face the fear of letting go of an eating disorder to experience the rewards of letting go. Karen Cigna

09/04/2025

07/04/2025

Years ago, there were times I would not do my hair or makeup, because I did not believe I was worth my own time. There is no need to put makeup on every day, if you don’t want to for other reasons. However, to not do it because we believe we are not worth our own time, is not self-loving. We all deserve our self-love and self care. Karen Cigna

02/04/2025

I found I ate the whole box of donuts because I did not give myself permission to have just one.Karen Cigna

02/04/2025

This really hit home as to something I posted yesterday about not being able to see changes in my body, and letting that be ok; because what is important is having a good relationship with myself, my body, my hunger and food. Karen Cigna

27/03/2025

Dear Body,

Thank you for standing up for me in good times and bad. Thank you for working hard and continuously for me, even when I have spoken to you meanly and have not appreciated you. Thank you for taking me to work, parties, friends’ houses, and on vacations. Thank you for being my home, which I walk around in. So sorry for treating you like a mannequin or ornament I hang clothing on, as opposed to dressing you for comfort. I finally realize you are so much more important than your size. I am glad I can start appreciating all that you do for me. Most, importantly I am glad I gave up the war against you, and I am working with you to make a better life for us.

Love you,
xoxo
Karen Cigna

27/03/2025

Happy Time-out Thursday!!!! We deserve time-out for ourselves every day, but we often forget to take time for ourselves. When I wasn’t taking time for myself I was either starving or stuffing myself with food I was not hungry for and didn’t need. The more I started taking time for myself on a daily basis, the less I needed to act out that I needed time to myself through my relationship with food. Karen Cigna