Picture Perfect

Hello my beautiful fudgies!
How's Monday been treating you? <3

Here's a little scenario for y'all:

You go through life with relatively good self-esteem, as a typical healthy fudgie is likely to. You're not Megan Fox
(let's face it: even some parts of Megan Fox are not in fact Megan Fox...)
but you don't stay up all night crying about it.

Suddenly, out of the blue, your self-esteem gets stabbed by the worst abomination in the history of humanity:
a picture of you.
But not just any picture of you...
NOOOOOOOO.
 A picture in which you think you look, and I quote my friend Lexi, «like the Yeti and Frankenstein's illegitimate child». 

And it is in that moment, ladies and few gentlemen, that we lose our fudgin' minds.

• We yell at our friends, asking them why they didn't tell us that we looked horrible.
• We rip, Sharpie, burn, soak in bleach this picture in hopes no one else will suffer from its unattractiveness. 
• And if ever someone DARED to reassure us that we do not look that bad, or WORSE, that we in fact look...good? All I can legally say is they never found their body. 

Just kidding! ;) 

But how does one handle a scenario like this one without dying inside?!

1. PUT. THE PICTURE. D.O.W.N. 

It can be so tempting to just stare at it in shock, but trust me, with the frame of mind you are in, the picture won't look any better with time. So push it away, click next, close your eyes or look away.

Let your brain breathe 30 seconds, then proceed to step 2. 

2. THE Y-FACTOR. 

Before jumping off a cliff,  make sure you consider the Y-Factors;

the Y-this-picture-may-be-completly-unrealistic: 

lighting, camera quality, position of your face/ body, photogenic-ness (?), NO AIRBRUSHING

These factors influence in a major way all pictures; look at all the pictures you like of yourself!

You were probably at a good angle, the lighting was probably decent, etc.

3. 3 THINGS I LOVE: PICTURE STYLE

The best trick for self-esteem in the world is about to get  spined-off.

Yes indeed, take that photo and walk through this amazing trick with me one more time.

(DONT KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT? http://fudgeperfection.blogspot.ca/2012/02/challenge-5-hungry.html )

-  take your picture and in a limited amount of time (say, 60 seconds?), find 3 things you like about yourself in this shot. Anything can do!

Works like a chaaaaarm. <3

4. AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY

DO NOT. DO. NOT. POST THE PICTURE ON FACEBOOK WITH THE CAPTION; 

«IM UGLY»

in order to get pity compliments.

You could not, no matter how much you tried, sound more insecure. 

Besides, if you announce like so, people will be prepared for flaws, therefore their eyes will be scanning for them.

Alright, that was it!

Hope you all enjoyed<3

muahhhhhh 

xoxoxoxo

Gabby

Wake Up Feeling Good

Second post in a row say what???!
:)

My lovely fudgies,

I don't know all of you.
Don't know your vices, your weaknesses, your stories.

But hopefully I can know that from now on, every morning, you will wake up feeling light, feeling free, feeling good.

And hoooooow, you ask, can you do that, oh wise one? :P

Here is a little trick that I adhere too religiously, and hopefully it can help you too <3

One of my biggest triggers is waking up feeling bloated, or fat, or just heavy.
Cuz you KNOW that if you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, citizens of the world better run and hide because it is NOT a good day.

And worst of all, YOU feel awful, and YOU want to run and hide from every living creature.

So what I do is make sure that I don't eat or drink anything 2 whole hours before I go to bed (water excluded of course, flavored water is like crack to me).

The next morning, I don't feel pregnant, so humans of this earth are safe yet another day and I feel like I can face almost anything!

Yayyyyyyy!!! Haha if you are alarmed by my cheesiness, you MUST be new.
Hi, I'm gabby :)

Xoxoxoxoxo
Gabby

What Doesn't Kill You

You've all heard it before:
From fortune cookies
To "deep" (please use the quotes to note my mockery) Facebook statutes
Even Kelly Clarkson (love the song btw, no criticism towards the artist herself)

"What doesn't kill makes you stronger!"

So lovely to hear.
So easy to believe.
Yet so incredibly, demoralizingly inaccurate.

Unleash the wrath of the non-believers (or rather the believers in this fairy tale approach to hardship) upon me.
I can take it, my loves.

As someone who has gone down the rabbit hole and almost died crashed into its pits;
As a friend of so many who have skimmed the surface or completely broken out of their capable limits;
I can honestly say I hate that saying.

It makes me feel, of all ironic things to feel, weak.
Because we are somehow exempt from all bad days, or poor choices, with this "new found strength" that so many impose upon us.
And if we ever show a sign of human weakness, it isn't perceived as a bad day.
Oh. No.
It's called a relapse.

And let me tell you something, my dear fudgies, you do not owe anyone the strength expected from you.

You have witnessed your fall, inch by inch, and you are recovering, by taking back every single one of those inches.

You may crawl out of this hole a little bit weaker than Mr sunshine next door.

You may climb out of the darkness a little more fragile than Rose Colored Sunglasses McGee over there.

But as you move on and face the hardship of life, you sure as fudge are a heck of a lot wiser than anyone who ever expected the incredible Hulk out of your morale.

No one knows where you have been.
So don't let them choose where you're going.
Be the strength you need to keep getting a little healthier, a little happier, and just keep fudging perfection.
You know you want to...;) <3 data-blogger-escaped-br="br">


Xoxoxo oxoxox
Gabby