Body Image | When Obsession with Beauty Becomes a Disease |Self Love and Care

Do you recall the first time you picked up a magazine and was mesmerized by the cover girl on the front page or the time you first watched a show with your favorite TV star and wondered “how does she have such perfect and flawless face, legs, arms .etc”.

I know I’ve been there time and time and my perception of what beauty and what I was suppose to look like was being shaped without my own knowledge.

Understanding about photo shop clarifies the mystery. Understanding it’s a process to get to that shoot is a journey .

We as a society have been led to believe there is only 1 ideal way a women should look like and it was dictated by the filtered and photoshopped pictures in magazine’s. The idolized perfection that we are striving to become in actuality is not a reality at all.   We have been conditioned to think that what we want so we believe it and made it out “goal”

Our thoughts become US ..

That’s not our opinion ( mine and Yana’s ) but rather a scientific fact .

Positive body image is something we all want when we begin our fitness journey but sometimes we end up hyper focused on body parts we hate that don’t change as rapidly as we like or doesn’t look as we expected.

Exercise is a celebration of what our bodies can do for us rather than what it can’lt or how it looks. Appreciate and celebrate small victories as you continue your journey and don’t loose sight of your why.

Not every day will feel like celebration but remember we fight for celebrations

Weight training and focusing on your performance based goals is a great way to ease the stress of being hyper focused.