Having a positive perception on our body image can do wonders for us while having a negative perception can affect us emotionally, mentally and physically.
Everyone knows how a poor body image can lead to many health issues such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety etc. Although this is more common in women… it does occur in men as well.
So, when you look in the mirror…are you happy and content with what you see? (I’m talking more physically/ health wise here rather than personality wise)
Is there anything that you’re not happy with? If so, do you do anything to work on it or do you just do nothing about it?
I am generally satisfied with the way I look. I do, however, have some problem areas that I don't like very much. I started working out to work on them. Let's see.
I suffered bad self-esteem quite long time and that was really bothering. I had days when i like my body image but some days I hate almost everything. And really bad body image/ low self-esteem makes ur life harder. Like when I went anywhere I use to think that now everyone looks me in negative way that i look bad or something. And if someone made compliment I never believed i just laughed and said u are funny.
I was little overweight, so I didn't like to eat in public places etc. because i thought now everyone thinks there is fat person eating again. And really I hated buying clothes etc because nothing looked pretty when i tried it.
I had minor eating disorder when i was 16-17 years old, I didn't eat more than 700 calories in day and i counted like everything. And at end i was so tired all the time that i didn't have enough strength to do anything but after school sleep. And then i had anemia, because i didn't get from food enough iron, vitamins etc. And All the time i was so weak, tired and feeling that im gonna pass out. Luckily my parents and friends noticed that situation before it went even worse, and then i went to nutritionist and little by little we increase my calorie amount, and boosted my self-esteem. And really eating just 700 calories a day didn't help me loosing any weight, because then Ur body goes to alarm-situation and store fat. And now when im eating properly and go jogging etc I have loosed weight and im almost in my goal, and most important im not tired or weak, im happy.
Of course i have still something what i want to improve, like now i dont like my teeth, but thats so minor thing compared to my old image.
I know that when I have kids in future, i want compliment them and make their self-esteem really good from the start. Because good self-esteem is what u need in life and u should be happy way u look. And beauty is in the eye of the beholder :)
I suffered bad self-esteem quite long time and that was really bothering. I had days when i like my body image but some days I hate almost everything. And really bad body image/ low self-esteem makes ur life harder. Like when I went anywhere I use to think that now everyone looks me in negative way that i look bad or something. And if someone made compliment I never believed i just laughed and said u are funny.
that was me for a very very very long time. once i realized that i suffered from a low-self esteem, couples with negative body image, i worked on it, both mentally and physically. i could never understand how girls would take a bajillion pictures of themselves, and be ok with it and not cringe everytime they ooked at themselves. now alhamdulilah, while there are things about me that will bug me occasionally, i get over it. but at the same time, even if someone compliments me, i would still wonder if it's genuine or fake.
My er earlier post aside, I am happy with how I look, maybe I wish I was a bit taller but other than that I am happy. I had no control over how I look when I was born so I am fine with my looks
But its weird, a few times when I think I don’t look that good I’ll get a compliment, when I think I do look good it’ll be nothing.
