There's so much more to me than Weight issues

You know what, this blog started out being about weightloss and keeping track of my scale reading. But lately I have been feeling there is so much more to me than my body and what size I am. Not only have I accepted that I am a big woman, I have also started to embrace me entirely.

By accepting I am a big girl I don’t mean I will munch muffins like they are running out of fashion or disregard all the good nutritional lessons I have learnt over the past few years. I mean, I am loving myself perfectly the way I am. I will love myself perfectly when I get to be a smaller size. In fact I don’t even know what size that will be. My body will tell me. I will still walk (as soon as I can without limping-cause after taking off the cast, my foot is not back to top condition like I thought it would be), I will still go to gym. I have made a promise to myself to find ways of moving that I enjoy so I will start swimming lessons again, so that I can swim at an aerobic pace. I will see what else to add.
It could be fracturing my fibula, it could be reading positive books like the Science of being well and four commitments that made me really want to embrace other areas of my life in this way.
Financial health- getting out of debt and staying out of debt
Further education- I was learning Shangaan, I’m not perfect but I want to continue learning. Community development, what works best etc
Leadership career- Running my own company even or NGO
Parenting- doing single parenting the best way I know how. My parents are looking after my daughter till I get settled but I want to do the best I can to provide the type of education I want her to have, just to make conscious decisions regarding her life.
I think it was a personal branding site that prompted me to ask myself what is my definition of success and it definately is not fitting into a certain size. It is rather:

1. Doing what I want for a living-lately my mind has been occupied by rural development. Seeing when I went back to my home town how different a rural child's life is to everyone else's. I dont mean materially but education, libraries etc. The growth of Africa, resolution of conflict.
2. Providing the best for my child-that is love, care, education, shelter and food. What we assume as basics but i see so many children going without.
3. Seeing the world- My goodness I am surrounded by beauty. My own country, Zimbabwe(was breathtaking), Mozambique I hear is heavenly. I would love to see more of Europe,be in the buzz of India and flipping see these "9 million bicycles in beijing".
4. Writing-blogging(believe it or not is important to me), motivational stories and even that novel I have been writing for years(on and off that is)

That was a mouthful. Now let me go and have my health bread with tuna....yum.

These are thee no nos in any sane person’s life and by sane i mean those that want to maintain weightloss. It is by ediets
1. Doughnuts It’s hard to resist the smell of a Krispy Kreme doughnut, which is why I never step foot in the store. Doughnuts are fried chock-full of sugar and white flour and loads of trans fat.
2. Cheeseburger with fries The age-old classic may be delicious but think twice before sinking your teeth into that Big Mac. The saturated fat found in cheese burgers has been linked to heart attacks, strokes and some types of cancer.
3. Fried Chicken and Chicken Nuggets With the recent class-action lawsuit between The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and KFC, the health risks posed by fried foods are becoming more public.
4. Packaged Lunches Sure they are convenient and easy, but boy are they unhealthy!
5. Sugary Cereal not all cereals are created equally. And while your kids might beg for the latest cookie or marshmallow chocolate surprise cereals, it is a safe bet they are about as healthy as a dessert. Keywords to look out for are puffed, dyed and sweetened.
6. Processed Meats. What falls under the category of processed meats? Hot dogs, sausage, jerky, bacon, certain lunch meats and meats used in canned soup products. Almost all processed meats have sodium nitrite added as a preservative.
7. Canned Soup Sometimes regarded as a healthy food, soups can be very deceiving. You must stay on your guard because many canned soups have high levels of trans fats, sodium and artificial preservatives such as MSG.