Affirmations can definitely help. People don’t understand that once people have internalized a negative self image, there is no easy way out. You can starve and exercise yourself to death to try and attain the perfect image (that will change once you almost get there, because their profits depend on the image never really being attainable!) Or you can change how you feel about yourself. That takes lots of work and turning off the forces of negativity, including toxic friends and the t.v. But once you attain inner peace, no one can take that away from you.
I am a proactive person so also allow me to say this. I am sure there are those who will be quick to point out fat is unhealthy. But how do we know some of the negative health affects aren’t coming from stigma and self-hatred.? In cultures where fatness is not abhorred, there are not nearly as many negative health consequences. One anthropologist found only 2% of Samoan women weighing over 200 lbs had high blood pressure when they came to the U.S. This was years ago before MSM started pollution everyone’s culture!
Affirmations can definitely help. People don’t understand that once people have internalized a negative self image, there is no easy way out. You can starve and exercise yourself to death to try and attain the perfect image (that will change once you almost get there, because their profits depend on the image never really being attainable!) Or you can change how you feel about yourself. That takes lots of work and turning off the forces of negativity, including toxic friends and the t.v. But once you attain inner peace, no one can take that away from you.
I am a proactive person so also allow me to say this. I am sure there are those who will be quick to point out fat is unhealthy. But how do we know some of the negative health affects aren’t coming from stigma and self-hatred.? In cultures where fatness is not abhorred, there are not nearly as many negative health consequences. One anthropologist found only 2% of Samoan women weighing over 200 lbs had high blood pressure when they came to the U.S. This was years ago before MSM started pollution everyone’s culture!
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