Why you don’t have to change your body to love yourself

One of our brain’s main jobs is to find evidence as to why our thoughts are true.
When you constantly think about needing to lose weight or how much you dislike your body, your brain will constantly look for evidence to justify these thoughts.
You’ll basically start feeling like crap all the time… Speaking from experience here.

How you speak to yourself becomes your reality

Our mind is powerful.
This is the exact same body, but two completely different mindsets.
We can make or break ourselves with the words we use, because they make up our self-perception.

Recovery comes with bad body image days

People assume that once you are recovered, you are not triggered to ever go back to dieting and restriction.
The truth is that the temptation is there, because diet talk is ALL AROUND US.
Our coworkers, friends, maybe even partners might be on some diet and it’s easy to beat ourselves up for not participating.

On days like this, I like to take a piece of paper and really reframe my thoughts to gain perspective.

How I reframe my thoughts to create a positive body image

For example, when I am in a negative headspace and think to myself

“you are such a hypocrite, you are not recovered and you should try to lose weight”

I turn this thought around into

“you are compassionate, loving and worthy of taking up space”.

The more we train our mindset to be kind and positive, the easier it becomes to be an ally to our body, not an enemy.

Why we deserve to be our own best friend

Being mean to ourselves gets us nowhere.

Instead, think about and focus on how awesome of a person you are besides your body, how deserving you are of taking up space and how much beauty and kindness there is in the world.

This is when you start healing your body image, you start feeling comfortable in your skin and happier with your life in general.

All you need to do is start

Start being aware of how you think about yourself and start shifting your thoughts into something positive and joyful.

You deserve to take up space and be YOU my friend.