Everyone wants to feel better about themselves, and most people I have dealt with at the beginning think that they have to change how they LOOK so that they can feel good about themselves.
This is the biggest mistake they make because they never actually get the whole story and concentrate too much on looks.
If you change your attitude towards your body-not changing your body-is one key element to feeling a lot better about yourself. When you feel good about yourself, you can do what it takes to get more out of yourself in terms of your body fat levels and your health as a whole.
The next question is how can you go about doing that?
How can you change your body image?
How can you stop feeling so bad about the way you look?
The first thing to realize is that your body image is influenced by many areas of your life.
For example, how about the negative comments and teasing from school, work colleagues or your family even? These can seriously hurt your body image and make you feel terrible about your appearance.
What about the media? How about all those bodies that are too thin and make you believe that THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG with you just because you are not that small when it’s probably not even possible to be that small without getting ill!
What about the way you talk to yourself about your body. Talking internally to yourself and constantly putting yourself down will take its toll over the short and long term and set yourself up for failure.
If you have parents who think negatively about their own bodies, then their influence tends to rub off on you creating yet another damaging role model on the way you think you should treat your body and health.
If you can realize right now that all these examples may be working against you, then this is the first step. Now you HAVE to do something about it!
More Monday.
