We May Not Be Thin But We’re Still Beautiful!
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Hello lovely ladies!
I am very excited to bring to you this feature article on body image with the hopes that it will encourage and empower you toward your future figure. It is my sincere hope that by reading this article, you will be able to understand how the pressure for Americans to be thin has created a problem of obesity, poor body image, and obsession with food. You’ll also be able to see how the pressure to lose weight that many of us feel is nothing but a scare tactic used by the media and weight loss industry to get us to resort to weight loss plans and programs that ultimately will fail us. You will discover how the drive that many of us feel to be thin has fostered an obsession with physical appearance and weight, and which has developed an overall poor body image. You will learn effective strategies that will help you to feel good about yourself, improve your body image, and start living your life free from societal pressure to look a certain way.
So, How Did We Get Here?
It seems that there has always been a preoccupation from us women with
how we look and how much we weigh. Some would try to lay the blame at the feet of our male dominated culture, and they certainly must own their fair share of the blame. I would also want for us ladies to remember that we must also take some of this blame upon ourselves for letting ourselves be dictated to and led down the path toward negative body image, eating disorders, and general dissatisfaction with ourselves. We must take responsibility for where we are individually, but with owning that responsibility, we have an awesome and empowering responsibility to get ourselves out of the pit we’ve dug for ourselves as well. The key is recognizing this, and accepting the challenge to long-term positive change. In all actuality, it does not matter at this point how we got here, but what does matter is what we’re going to do to break free.
Don’t Give In To The Scare Tactics!
One way that we can begin to break free from societal pressure is by not choosing not to listen to all the negative messages that we hear on a daily basis. Everyday, we hear commercials on the radio, read articles in the magazines, and see celebrities on TV who remind us that we are, indeed, in the battle of our lives. Everywhere we turn there will be temptations and struggles to conform to society’s whims and desires. There will always be the fad diets, media and societal pressure to lose weight, and new clothing trends that threaten to plunge us into a sea of self-condemnation and shame. Ladies, we must remember, that we ultimately determine our actions in the face of societal pressure. We don’t need to resort to the harmful eating habits just to look good for someone else…someone who does not really care about us. We determine whether we will spend tons of money on clothes and make-up so that we can be accepted by the rest of America, and whether we will spend tons of time in the gym working on improving our bodies so we can be thin…all with the hopes that we will be socially accepted. Let’s exercise our power and do what’s in OUR best interests, not what pleases others.
Are You Obsessed with How You Look?
If you find that you spend a significant amount of time worrying about what others think about you, then this might be considered an obsession. If you spend lots of time thinking about food, focused on weight loss, and how you stack up with other women in our culture, then you might have bought into the lies that you’re not enough, and that you must look like others in society in order to be accepted. The problem with this is that you will never be happy with yourself because you’re actually not living your life…you’re living for everyone else! Decide today that you will begin taking back your life and living YOUR life, not someone else’s. I have some suggestions for doing this.
How YOU Can Feel Good About Yourself, Improve Your Body Image and Be Forever Free From Societal Pressure to Look a Certain Way.
Beginning today, you should resolve to be the person you were created to
be. It’s extremely hard to try to be someone else. We put way too much pressure on ourselves when we live for the approval or acceptance of others. As a matter of fact, it’s a futile endeavor since people’s opinions, preferences, likes and dislikes change all the time. When we live for their acceptance, we end up frequently discouraged, anxious, and downright depressed when we learn that we can never satisfy them…no matter what we do. What you can also do is to resolve to surround yourself with encouraging people and encouraging messages. I’m convinced that we don’t have enough positive people and messages in our daily lives. Are there people in your life that you admire, or who inspire you to be your best? These are the people I would encourage you to spend more time with. By doing this, you will begin to learn how to think more positively and do more positive and helpful activities that promote a happier you. Also, remember that true beauty is inside of you, and you don’t need to listen to the lies anymore! When you can do this, you will feel good about yourself knowing that society no longer has a grip on you, and that you don’t need to give into the pressure to lose weight just because society has determined that “this is in”. Instead of feeling inadequate and insecure, you will feel as beautiful as you already are.
By applying what you’ve read in this article I trust that you will begin to feel good about yourself all over again, as the effects of media “brain washing” begin to erode. I hope that you’ll begin to take positive steps to improve your body image and learn that you don’t need to do what others in society do. You’ll learn that the obsession you had with your appearance was based on all of the wrong things…meaningless things…but now, you’ll begin to understand what really matters. Lastly, I trust that you’ll see right through the scare tactics from the weight loss industry and media that tell you that being thin is the only way you’ll be happy because now you know the truth.
If you’d like to read how I was able to break free from a lifetime of diet and
weight loss struggles, and learn exactly how I did it, take a look at the Enzyme Diet page above. You will be amazed to know that I, too, struggled mightily with my own body image until about a year ago when I finally found the answer to all of my prayers. You might be very encouraged and extremely happy to learn that to attain and maintain your future figure doesn’t have to be as hard as we’ve been led to believe.
I feel so strongly about the need for women to be informed about the necessity to break free from societal pressure and scrutiny that I also wrote a special weight loss report exposing the 60 billion-a-year weight loss industry and setting the record straight about women and weight loss. I truly believe that there are enough lies circulating out there about weight loss and I so urgently want to tell you the truth! It’s called “Weight Loss Success Secrets for Women”, and I believe that by reading this, your life may be forever changed. Simply click to claim your free report.
To your future figure,
Sheril
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November 10th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I loved this title! So true!
You might want to do an article on how in the Renaissance (?) period it was beautiful to have a little meat on your bones rather than be so thin/skinny.
I read that somewhere years ago and it made sense.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
And the beholders are influenced by what the culture is saying at the time.
You only need a few teenagers to know that!
For instance,I have stood in a dressing room with the same young man just 2 years ago who told me that there is NO WAY he was wearing ’skinny legged’ jeans. He wanted flares.
When I mentoned that I thought he was merely saying what he thought the world was wearing he promoised profusely that this was not the case.
he was really wearing what he liked. he did not supposedly CARE what everyoen else was/was not doing!
That he really and truly did not like the look of skinny jeans.
well, this year, guess what he wants to spend $30 on!?
Skinny jeans.
When confronted in ROSS he finally ADMITTED that NOW he likes them.
And he finally then admitted that this is becasue everyoen else is wearing them!
ha ha.
A small victory for mothers everywhere!! smile.