We All Have Cellulite
Written by Editor // 01/17/2012 // Featured, GABBY, WEIGHTLOSS // 6 Comments
I’m in pretty good shape, and it amazes me that I can spend minutes of every day pondering cellulite. I get up in the morning and look at my butt. Take a shower and look at my naked butt. I ask myself, is there more than yesterday or less than three years ago? Maybe if I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, I flex just to see what is really going on. Oh, how about the changing room at the store? Yeah, get an infinite look at cellulite.
My point is that we all have cellulite. Cellulite meaning big hips, small breasts, less than perfect skin, not bright white teeth, funny ears, a big nose, no top lip, cankles… You name it, we can zone right in on our “cellulite” area and fixate on it several times a day.
If you saw me in a bikini, I don’t think you would say “Poor Gab and her cellulite.” Not only would you (hopefully) not notice, you might even think I’m in good shape and I don’t even think about cellulite.
We as humans, especially women, love to torture ourselves. It’d be like having a hand full of aces and kings and somehow obsessing over the fact that we had a two. We could win the game with the cards we were dealt but we don’t. Why? Because we can’t see the whole picture since we are focused in on our two. Meanwhile someone next to you is playing the table and having a great time with a mixed bag of 10s, an eight, and a Jack.
We create the prison about our body that we live in.
You know what? If you want to lose some weight, do it. Stop grumbling about it and play those aces. Smart, kind, beautiful, talented, loved, spiritual, healthy, athletic, and beautiful.
If you want to say it’s easy for me, go ahead. I could have used you when I was 12 years old and 6 feet tall. You could have come by my school in 10th grade when I was 6’3″ and told me how easy it was when the kids were calling me “dork,” “daddy long legs,” “giraffe,” “freak” — you get the point.
What happened? I realized that God had given me some other cards, and they were aces. I embraced my size, and it’s become a very big blessing to me. If I’d focused on the bad, I wouldn’t have been able to recognize my good along with my gifts. It’s human nature but let’s try and make it a little easier on ourselves, shall we? I’m trying to start liking or at least laughing at cellulite. Someone told me once that people only see what we project.
Best, Gabby
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6 Comments on "We All Have Cellulite"
Really a great article. I got to bump some balls with Gabby back in my beach volleyball circuit days .I played in FL, GA, AL,SC, NC, SC and LL I still have the beach volleyball Gabby signed for meduring the Atlanta Olympic Games i believe !!!! I choose to play the hand I am dealt and love my body after all it still lets me do all the things I ever want. I am an Amazon! 5’10″ and loving it! I am running, and skiing and doing cartwheels!!LOL
I was only 5’9″ and people made fun of my height till we got to highschool and there was a 6′ tall girl there. Did mother Theresa worry about her cellulite? I don’t think so. I think she tried to take her gifts and help others. Just like we should or could or do. I love your stories. Thanks for sharing. I have been so busy with grama I have not gotten on the new site much to look around. I just get little snippets of it.
I can’t express to you how grateful I am when you mention it was hard for you to be tall when you were young. I too was 6 ft when I was twelve – for most of my life it has been hard. I always wished I could just blend in. It is only now, in my forties that I am finally recognizing I was meant to be tall, I am tall for a reason, I am meant to stand out. Thanks for helping me be proud of who I am.
Gabby,
I love what you have to say. I really am happy I found your blog since I am struggling with post-partum (following a twin pregnancy no less) body changes. I was fit and athletic prior to my pregnancy. Having twins in my early 40′s (yikes) has made it tough to get back to what I’d consider “normal”. Thanks for writing this at this very time when I need a good kick in the butt. Yes, we all have our “cellulite”. I will stop being so hard on myself.
You rock Gabby!!
I am 60 and have been working out since I was in High school..active in sports
Cellulite has always been there .I just wasn’t as noticable when I was younger,now It is not such a big deal,the awful thing now is the fact that you can work out and tone up but there is nothing ! not a thing that you can do about the sagging ,wrinkling crapepaper if the aging skin,so just enjoy being healthy and wise
just found this site when i check another fave site of mine tallswag.com–i too was 6 feet at twelve years of age and topped out at 6’2″..im getting very (scary) close to my 30th birthday and its only in the last year or so ive come to accept the fact that i am tall..and not “model thin” but i am strong in both body and mind and i have a loving 6’1″ MMA fighting husband who loves the fact we can lift and spar together!