Enjoying Who You Are-Where You Are! How Ketopia Helped !
Perhaps it is age and perhaps with age comes wisdom, or perhaps there comes a time that you learn to be authentic and being yourself is ENOUGH and it is OK… That YOU are OK JUST AS YOU ARE!!!!! All this striving for perfection and for being something other than what you authentically are is simply exhausting!
I feel at age 59 I have entered a pivotal time in my life of ACCEPTANCE~ and I can get emotional just thinking of it.
…. being born a fair skinned girl with flaming wavy red hair I always wanted to have dark skin and dark straight hair. When my body was muscular I wanted to look more feminine and even complained about my “ripples in my ab area.” (hello, those ‘ripples were a 6-pack) As I got older and my hair faded in color I wanted it to be red again and as my body went through menopause, I craved the lean belly I once had as a young teen and also as a body builder in my late 20’s and early 30’s.
It surely IS exhausting wanting to be something you can NEVER be….or at least can’t be authentically and easily! I call it “Striving to Arrive!”
When my hair went straighter after having kids I then permed my hair to make it wavy and added blonde highlights. Now, at age 59 my hair is worn CLIPPED closely to my scalp and I am enjoying the natural white color that is framing my face, as mother nature intended it to do. Did you know those with red hair never go gray they go WHITE instead?
I am still working on the BODY image “topic” but Ketopia has helped with my initial horror of the added belly fat that came with menopause and hormonal changes. (www.KetoPerfect.com)
I realize that being HEALTHY rather than the quest for being thin is a breath of fresh air. It’s not easy because I feel younger than my body looks, but I am working on the mindset that being more full figure is not only OK, it can be sexy. Ketopia addressed my STORED FAT that accumulated through menopause and I now feel like I am BACK to embracing my body that is aging gracefully despite the hormonal onset of temporary mid-section fat. 
My three granddaughters are also a motivation of self-love and self- acceptance for who we are and how we look -no matter what-is beautiful. I do not want any of them feeling they are not OK exactly the way they are. Our culture does enough of that and I believe it is the family structure than needs to let our sons and daughters accept how they are is simply perfect.
Am I 100% with accepting who and how I am at my age ? No, but I am working on it. Taking time daily for meditation, self-reflection, exercise, nutritious food, contribution, and rich relationships are all part of my wheel of balance.
I encourage anyone who wants to chime in on this topic to please comment….. how are YOU handling being happy with who you are and where you are?
Dave and Joy
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