'I feel like I'm finally shedding those old layers of self-doubt and fear.'
embarrassing to say the answer out loud. It's just an impossible number to recall, and if I'm being completely honest, it's still growing. Recently, I took a moment to pause and reflect on how much I've criticized my body over the past decade or so, and I was shocked. In that moment, I hated that I had wasted so much energy being frustrated with how I looked, whenEveryone has flaws, but we see them in ourselves much easier than in other people.
I've always been in pretty good shape — I was extremely active as a kid and played a lot of sports. I was also very lucky to have parents who took the time every morning to make my brothers and I nutritious lunches, and we rarely ate junk food or went out to dinner. So, I would get a lot of comments from classmates about my body, and eventually those comments turned more and more sour.
Eventually, criticizing my body started to feel like a full-time job. When I look back at old photos with my friends, my first thought isn't how much fun I was having or what made me laugh just as the picture was snapped: I only remember how worried I was about how my body looked. Often I'd become uncomfortable and anxious as photos were taken, then complain to friends about them being a bad angle. But now, as a young adult, I wonder why I thought these were such terrible pictures.
I was tired of wasting precious time stressing over how my body looks and what others think about it.It's easy to recognize now that I didn't need to change anything about my appearance, and I've always known that one day I would feel the same way about my body now — but until recently, I wasn't there yet. I couldn't accept that it's normal for our bodies to change, that it's OK for that teenage figure to be replaced with cellulite and stretch marks.
Over the last few months, though, I decided enough is enough. I was tired of wasting precious time stressing over how my body looks and what others think about it. So I made it my mission to disregard stereotypes and external pressures and focus solely on my health. I vowed to stop negative thoughts in their tracks by literally walking away from them , and I filled my days with healthy habits I truly enjoy, like stretching, drinking plenty of water, and eating delicious, nutritious meals.
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