Tuesday 16 October 2012

Ditch The Scales For Charity!

We all have bad health habits that sometimes seem impossible to break, but what about if you have a much bigger problem you wished to succeed for? The issue I'm talking about is bullying and child sexual abuse. Helping a charity that is committed to helping keep children safe from abuse is much more rewarding than seeing the number on the scales decrease, as lovely as that is! So I suggest you ditch the scales and commit to your goal for Kidscape.
 
Kidscape is the first charity in the UK established specifically to prevent bullying and child sexual abuse. They believe that protecting children from harm is key and feel that their work is vital given the frightening statistics that:

•Each year 10-14 youth suicides are directly attributed to bullying (The Home Office)
•Bullied children are 6 times more likely to contemplate suicide than their non-bullied counterparts
•1 in 12 children are badly bullied to the point that it affects their education, relationships and even their prospects for jobs in later life
•66% of paedophiles are known to the child

Kidscape works UK-wide to provide individuals and organisations with practical skills and resources necessary to keep children safe from harm. The Kidscape staff equips vulnerable children with practical non-threatening knowledge and skills in how to keep themselves safe and reduce the likelihood of future harm. This is why I wish to support this charity.

My Proposal to you:

Please consider either option.

A) You commit to the 'QUIT CHALLENGE'. Meaning you quit something you love/rely on for a minimum of a week, but ideally a month. You choose something that will better your health for your own personal self motivation and well-being. Choosing to give up something that will be a challenging for you so friends and family wish to back you.
 
B) You get behind us and choose to sponsor someone who is doing the 'Quit Challenge'. You sponsor them a recommended £1 donation for every week they complete the challenge and a extra £1 if they do a full calender month so a total of £5 for the whole month. Obviously higher donations are delightful, but every little helps so even smaller contributions are greatly received. You choose what you wish to donate :)
 
Why have I chosen to do this now?

I've wanted for a long time to be involved in helping children suffering, but recently I watched a video recorded by Amanda Todd not long before she took her own life. Not enough was done to help her and it's easy to say we would of done something had we known her, but that doesn't quite cut it. The best we can do now is to try and do something for the next victim.
 
 

My past and desire to help people achieve health goals makes me very passionate to get this project of the grown.

How will it work?

Once I have people wishing to be involved I'll get a fundraising page set up. I'll the add the individuals taking part in the desciption and their challenges and you invite friends/family to pop over to the page and sponsor you.

Who will benefit?

The charity, the kids and their parents as well as you improving your own health.

Ideas for the challenge:

♥ Give up the car
♥ Quit smoking
♥ Quit Alcohol
♥ Quit sweet treats or something specific if you have an addiction to something particular i.e chocolate, fizzy drinks etc

When will we commence?

I hope to start middle the of November, but obviously this depends entirely on when I have everything in place to make it happen.

This is what I need:

♥ People to take part in the Quit Challenge
♥ People to sponsor those taking part in the challenge
♥ Businesses to offer their services complimentary - literature designed or printed, raffle prizes to further help fundraising or blogging/promoting about the fundraising campaign etc.

Please leave me a comment if you wish to support this project so I can get it off the ground.

Hoping to make this a big success,
Miss Work it Baby x x x

Saturday 6 October 2012

Lady Gaga Battles With Her Weight and Nicole Scherzinger Admits She Battled Bulimia.

Lady Gaga has won many awards as well as being ranked as one of the most most influential people of the decade and recently became the first person in the world to pass the 30 million followers threshold on Twitter. However recently Gaga came under attack about apparently gaining 2 stone. It wasn't that long ago she came under attack for being too thin and it was thought she had an eating disorder. 



Nicole Scherzinger has now came forward and admitted she was Bulimic whilst in the Pussycat Dolls. 

I've never personally been overweight but yes I have to admit I have been depressed about my weight in the past. I also know people very close to my heart who've suffered an eating disorder. 

When I was at School there was a girl who was overweight and a boy she fancied at the time called her a 'FAT COW'. In the coming months she lost a lot of weight and about a year later she was drastically under weight. 

Recently I was saddened to see a photo posted on Facebook of a bloke who wasn't the typical stereotype of beauty. A bloke who'd taken the courage to join a dating site and upload his photo. This photo had been then copied and pasted on Facebook just to mock him. This is cruel. He may never find out, but what if and I know it's unlikely he does?

The pararazzi and unrealistic images of celebs who have been photoshoped are often blamed for causing people to battle with body image demons, but are we to blame too? 

Social Media has became a platform for bullying. I follow many celebrities on Facebook and they simply can't post a photo without someone telling them they are too skinny, too fat, ugly, having a bad hair day, a chav and the list just doesn't seem to end. Some say this is the price of fame, but if you wouldn't say this to someones face (and I really hope you wouldn't) why is online acceptable?

Lady Gaga hit back and posted a photo of herself in just her underwear and has started a campaign ' "Body Revolution'.  Fans from across the internet are invited to post pictures of themselves online and celebrate their "triumph over insecurities." To date, thousands  have took part.

I believe the problem is everyone wants a quick fix, people don't always seem to care about health but just looking good. I admit I used to be one of those, but becoming a parent changed me. I know longer wanted to battle with body image anymore.When results are slow it's when we start to go on a binge or start a fad diet. If our main goal was all about health we'd keep going because progress is almost immediate when this is your goal.  If one day you eat junk food all day and the next day you eat well balanced meals and leave the junk behind your already being healthier. You may not be any lighter yet but you are in fact nourishing and loving your body. You may at times stumble and lose motivation, but if it's not all about the scales and in fact about being healthy you'll start back. 

I hate with a passion when people assume because I'm eating something nourishing I'm trying to lose weight. I don't try and give up the bad food to shed weight (I'm happy with my size) I do it because I want to be fitter, stronger and slightly more defined. I have no intentions of trying to be lighter. 

Self acceptance is so important and I do in all honestly still get down (only occasionally now) when I'm not getting the exact results I visualise, but I have accepted now that 'I'm a pear, I'll never be that perfect hour glass and my boobs are small. I have stretch marks and they'll never go' but my imperfections are perfectly mine and I do not need to change them to be beautiful. 


I urge and plead to everyone to just be healthy, list your imperfections and embrace them and make it your goal to one day post a photo of yourself in your underwear/bikini and accept the way you are. 

Love Miss Work it Baby x x x x