Over the past two to three years there has been a major
increase in body image advertising, almost shifting into propaganda. I get it,
we should all love ourselves and not let others influence our self-esteem or
tell us we’re not pretty based off of our current weight, but I have beef with
this. Now before someone other than the two people I know read this blog freak
out and attack me, this
opinion is coming from an overweight girl who,
as she types this, is stuffing her face with cool ranch Doritos so I know how
the fatties feel. Having
self-confidence, to me, is one of the greatest attributes any human being can
have. It radiates from you and draws people to you. Some of the best people I
know are also some of the most confident. For the most part I think I’m a
confident person, I have my moments like we all do, but I finally stopped
letting my weight and appearance stop me from enjoying life while, unfortunately,
letting my weight control my overall health.
Now that’s out of the way, let me get to my point: being
overweight or obese isn’t healthy. I
can love the way I look as much as I want, but it won’t change the fact I can’t
keep up on a hike or that my knees swell and ache after any sort of activity,
and sometimes for no reason at all. You can have the confidence to wear a mini
skirt or bikini, but that doesn’t mean your vital organs aren’t working overtime
time to keep you alive and moving in that mini skirt. We should love ourselves
while also bettering ourselves. Doesn’t that make more sense? I know I run the
risk of sounding like a hypocrite by posting this, or even thinking it, and I’ll
work on putting my money where my mouth is instead of donuts and potato chips. Being
sure to love me for me at the same time of course.
Climbing off my soap box now.
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