Staying Fit

You've seen Wonder Woman. That girl is FIT. She runs around in a bathing suit and boots all day, every day. And not a tiny bit of cellulite.

For the rest of us wonder women our bodies might be something we love, hate, or something in between. It has been a battle through out the ages: women vs. their bodies. Women in the Victorian area literally crushed ribs to fit into corsets. Women in the twenties were anorexic flappers, chest less, hip less, and woman less. In the nineties women started to hop on the plastic surgery boat, literally cutting themselves and mutilating their own bodies to make them something they are not. From no fault of our own we can let our world tell us what our bodies should be. What they are is an entirely different matter.

We are wonder women. We have bodies that empower us. Our thighs help us stand up to injustice, the bigger the better. Our stomachs nourish us and hold our womanhood with pride. Our chests hold the fat and nutrients necessary to sustain another life. Our brains give us our intelligence, poise, and power. We are unstoppable, and our bodies carry us to do the unstoppable. It is an evolutionary fact. If it was not, every woman on the planet would bone thin with no curves. Instead, we arch and bow like the earth itself.

The more skinny a woman is, the more likely she is to be sick, frail, and vulnerable to the world around her. She may be pleasing to the eye but she is not fulfilling her body's destiny: to cradle her very life. Let's remember the ultimate truth: Physical beauty comes not from thinness, but healthiness. Our bodies make us the wonder women we are. They give us power. Empower yourself and remember: you are only as beautiful as your body is healthy

Muscular and healthy, WW