The best health advice for woman I have ever been given is to have a high self-esteem. Every woman out there can go on a healthy diet, or work out more, but the real secret to being healthy is feeling good about you. Where is your motivation to work out, eat better, or take those daily vitamins going to come from if you don't feel good about yourself? I know all of us wish we had our best friends butt, or our co-workers thighs, but we have what we have, and were stuck with it! So ladies we need to be comfortable with ourselves! Let your true colors shine! Because all of us are beautiful, unique, and sexy in our own way! If you’re curvy, work it! If your skinny, work it! The world is everyone’s catwalk! Don't fret over something your not. Not everyone is cut out to be a supermodel, actually barely anybody is. Be yourselves, be beautiful! A truly healthy woman is happy, and if you are not comfortable with yourself, then you won’t be happy, and if you’re not happy, you’re not healthy. So be beautiful, be bold. And ladies, remember, it’s not the size of your waist that matters, it’s the size of your heart!
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You'll get no argument about the importance of developing a good sense of self-esteem. Would that it could be so easy!
Parents impart their own attitudes about self upon their children. Children are bombarded by their peers. Women are bombarded by airbrushed cover photos of models next to headlines like "Flatten Your Belly By..." and "Lose 10 Pounds in 10 Days," etc. We're unkind to each other, so we're unkind to ourselves because we grow up believing that's life.
I agree with your premise: to be healthy is to be happy is to be beautiful.
For women, self esteem has a lot to do with appearance. While it's easy to tell people to love themselves as-is, it's just as easy for those same people to kid themselves into ignoring that waistline that is, indeed, dangerously thick, and that goes beyond appearance.
I think that learning to take good care of oneself leads to good self-esteem. The other part of this is to appreciate who you are and be confident. Plus, as my mom always says: don't go out the door without putting on some lipstick. Presenting yourself in your best possible light is empowering...
or, should that be "empowHERing!"
BTW - the size of my waist does matter; my heart health depends upon it shrinking. :)
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