Love your body
Is there anyone more critical of your body than you? Probably not, and if there is, chances are that person should be re-classified as something other than a “friend”. However more important that what some jerk criticizes about you, your self-image, self-esteem, and self-confidence are probably not where they need to be.
As a society, we have such difficulty with our body images. We are more than ever bombarded by video and still images of genetically gifted individuals and celebrities that can afford the time and money to get sculpted for multi-million dollar acting roles. For the rest of us “mere-mortals”, we have to reconcile what our expectations are of ourselves, and what we actually have. With only about 10% of the population even capable of having washboard abs, why do we continue to flog ourselves for something most of us will never achieve? The answer is simple; at the deepest level, we think we are more worthy of love if we look like that, without asking if we could look like that. Not to mention that you are worthy of love just by being human.
After all, we don’t need to look like some muscle and sinew god or goddess (unless you are a magazine cover model), and even then, Photoshop has made imperfections easy to remedy. What we really need is a perception correction. We need to see things as they are; no worse and no better. You may be obese or overweight (technical terms), but only you can accept the description “worthless fat slob”. And if that’s the best you can say to yourself, you have to stop in your tracks and realize that even if you should reduce the excess fat on your body, you can still be a beautiful person who is a good friend, colleague, and significant other.
Now if you want to make a change and love your body more, then you have to make the potentially hard choice between a healthy lifestyle and a deadly lifestyle (deadly is not overstating it; if you don’t change your habits, you will die an early death). So dig a little deeper and ask yourself “why do you need that bowl of ice cream?” or “why is it okay to watch 5 hours of television per day?”
If the answer is along the lines of “it makes me feel better”, or “I deserve it”, but those answers are garbage. The truth is that you deserve the life, body, and energy you want, and not the fat, artery clogged body you have.
So if you want to truly love your body for the right reasons, step up to the challenge and only eat as much as you need to. Exercise more than you do now, and never, ever placate negative feelings with food. You can love your body as it is now, knowing you are at the start line of the rest of your life. You have a long race in front of you and you deserve a better definition of yourself. You deserve the body that is hiding under that layer of fat. So make a change today and make another tomorrow and another the day after. You can love your body, and you can love it more each and every day.
As a society, we have such difficulty with our body images. We are more than ever bombarded by video and still images of genetically gifted individuals and celebrities that can afford the time and money to get sculpted for multi-million dollar acting roles. For the rest of us “mere-mortals”, we have to reconcile what our expectations are of ourselves, and what we actually have. With only about 10% of the population even capable of having washboard abs, why do we continue to flog ourselves for something most of us will never achieve? The answer is simple; at the deepest level, we think we are more worthy of love if we look like that, without asking if we could look like that. Not to mention that you are worthy of love just by being human.
After all, we don’t need to look like some muscle and sinew god or goddess (unless you are a magazine cover model), and even then, Photoshop has made imperfections easy to remedy. What we really need is a perception correction. We need to see things as they are; no worse and no better. You may be obese or overweight (technical terms), but only you can accept the description “worthless fat slob”. And if that’s the best you can say to yourself, you have to stop in your tracks and realize that even if you should reduce the excess fat on your body, you can still be a beautiful person who is a good friend, colleague, and significant other.
Now if you want to make a change and love your body more, then you have to make the potentially hard choice between a healthy lifestyle and a deadly lifestyle (deadly is not overstating it; if you don’t change your habits, you will die an early death). So dig a little deeper and ask yourself “why do you need that bowl of ice cream?” or “why is it okay to watch 5 hours of television per day?”
If the answer is along the lines of “it makes me feel better”, or “I deserve it”, but those answers are garbage. The truth is that you deserve the life, body, and energy you want, and not the fat, artery clogged body you have.
So if you want to truly love your body for the right reasons, step up to the challenge and only eat as much as you need to. Exercise more than you do now, and never, ever placate negative feelings with food. You can love your body as it is now, knowing you are at the start line of the rest of your life. You have a long race in front of you and you deserve a better definition of yourself. You deserve the body that is hiding under that layer of fat. So make a change today and make another tomorrow and another the day after. You can love your body, and you can love it more each and every day.
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