Learning to love yourself regardless of your size is one of the most crucial and beneficial gifts that a person can give themselves. The ripple effects of learning to experience self-love will touch every part of your life. A reader poll on body image states that “When I look at myself in the mirror, I feel…” To which 57% of the responses answered, SHAME. Think of how much time you would have in your day if you could teach yourself to replace negative thoughts of self-loathing with feelings of happiness and abundance.
Society has taught us that if we are not stick- thin, we’re fat. Society is wrong! Society forgot to tell us how sexy confidence is. How beautiful imperfections are, that not only are different shapes and sizes acceptable, it is applauded. Yes, be Barbie in a size 40! Being confident has nothing to do with size.
90% of women aged 15-64 want to change at least one aspect of their physical appearance to improve confidence, with body weight ranking as the highest issue. This can have a negative effect on your self-esteem, combine this with a crooked tooth or bigger ankles and, voila!
This is your journey to take. Have you ever seen that woman who definitely does not have the “perfect” body but is so confident that it doesn’t matter? When you are truly confident with your body and all its flaws, you radiate in a way that simply draws people to you. That kind of inner confidence can’t be faked, and in order to get it you need to learn how to love your body how it is today – flaws and all!
You are beautiful regardless of shape or size. You are enough. So start acting like it and take care of the body you have today. Get in shape and be confident in your imperfections. Remember, you don’t have to be great to start; you just have to start to be great!
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