The ShapeUp Blog

Well, let’s face it. Is the end of May now, the bikini season is probably already here for some of you.
Perhaps your goal was to be super fit for beach 2010, and now that’s just an impossible task.

What to do now? Giving up may seem like the only sane option.

No! Don’t give up!
So what, maybe you didn’t do all those runs and gym-visits you planned to do, and maybe you did treat yourself with one or two (…or three or four) pieces of candy a few days a week (…or like every day, every week).
Yep, I know how it is. I’m in just that situation right now. Summer is approaching me in a dangerously speed, and I’m stuck in my office staring out the window in fear of when the sun is really gonna hit Sweden and force me in to the very much too small bikini!
(Yes, I bought it with the intension “No worries, it will fit and make me look awesome when summer is here.” Don’t do that, never works! And yet this is not the first time I buy clothes which are a bit too tight hoping it will fit soon.)

But I know it feels tough now, and you don’t see the point of even thinking of trying anymore.

Don’t stop, because this is when you start feeling even more bad about yourself!

Ok, maybe you won’t be able to hit that dream weight in time, but I promise you, just starting to eat a bit healthier and perhaps doing some exercise is half way to your goal!
The decision and feeling that you are trying, and that your body is benefiting from it will make you feel so much better about yourself. And that’s all it take for you to look and feel beautiful! =)

I guess this may sound silly and pretentious, but I think the most beautiful people around me isn’t the ones with tini tiny bodies or super pumped up muscles. No way!

The people who look the best are those who feel good about themselves and those who are happy with what they got.

Ok, I know, that’s really hard to achieve, and some days you just feel like hiding under your cover. Right?

But I found that what helps me to feel better those days is to say to myself that life is too short to walk around and feeling bad about myself and my body (when most of it is probably in my head anyway!).

So any advice?
Yes =) Of course.
Try a bit more and be proud that you haven’t given up yet!
So come on, let’s do this now! Let the journey be the goal, and be happy that you made that goal!

Now let’s Shape ourselves Up! =)

(Just one more thing, I think we need a better motivational part of ShapeUp Club, somewhere to turn when everything just sucks! Its lucky we’re going to build this soon! =) And of course, if you have any ideas or wishes for what you would like to see here, let us know. You can contact us here: http://www.shapeupclub.com/Contact.aspx )

Yours in rain, snow, sun or any kind of weather you wanna shapeup in =)
Tove