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Peer Education Program
Body Image
What is
body image?
how you perceive
your physical appearance
how you feel about your physical appearance
how you feel about your body
how you think others see you
Strive
for a positive self image.
With a positive
body image, a person has a real perception of his or her
size and shape and feels comfortable and proud about his or
her body.
Steer clear of a negative self
image.
With a negative body image, a person has a
distorted perception of his or her shape and size, compares
his or her body to others, and feels shame, awkwardness, and
anxiety about his or her body. A person's dissatisfaction
with his or her body affects how he or she thinks and feels
about himself or herself. A poor body image can lead to
emotional distress, low self-esteem, dieting, anxiety,
depression, and eating disorders
Why
Weight Neutrality?
Stop and think about what really matters - it shouldn't be
numbers
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Picking a weight and then trying to reach and
maintain it usually doesn’t
work.
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Weight loss promoters promise a better life. But
trying to reach a specific number on the scale
leaves you vulnerable to hazardous weight
practices. It makes you
pay attention to the wrong thing: While
your eye is on the scale, your hair could be falling
out, your friendships straining, your concentration
shot. This is the process to reach a "healthy"
weight? Why not go for the better life by working
directly on the things that matter to you and let
your weight do whatever it does?
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If you are not "weight neutral," you might be
perpetuating the myth
that you can "read" a person's character from
the size of his or her body.
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4
Weight neutrality frees up all the money you spend
on attempts to change weight. Go ahead and add it
up: How much have you spent on diets, diet products,
multiple wardrobes in different sizes, clothes that
you've never worn, hardly used gym memberships, and
so on?
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Weight neutrality frees up all the time and energy
you spend on attempts to change weight. Think about
all the obsessing about weight (for yourself and
others) and think how you could harness it for what
really matters.
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Being weight neutral allows you to "keep your eyes
on the prize": Developing the skills you need to
be resilient and flexible
in the face of life's demands and opportunities.
How effective a person are you allowing yourself to
be if retaining water ruins your day? How
satisfying can such a day be to you?
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It
makes you feel free, free,
free! Free of the industries which want
your money that promise to cure your insecurities
that don't really want to offer a product that works
because then you wouldn't keep coming back to spend
more money to cure your insecurities. . . you get
the picture.
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It
allows you to appreciate
the wonders of this body you occupy. |
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It
allows you to appreciate the wonders of other people
whose bodies are not
"perfect."
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It's more fun.
Free your body and your mind will follow... |
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