How do you balance loving your body with setting health goals for yourself?

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I'm curious to hear how you try to improve your health without self-shaming.

Accepted Answer

I'm trying this new thing where my health goals aren't based on weight or clothing size, but based on just consistently exercising and eating well a certain number of times a week for the sake of feeling better. If I lose weight, great, but the main goal is to be strong, healthy and active.

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I have specific weight loss goals and I, admittedly, do not always like what I see in the mirror. I don't see this as self-shaming. I love myself, my mind, my heart... I am grateful for the vessel that is my body... However, I want to be healthy and feel good in my clothes and confident in my skin. I have lost 110 lbs (30 most recently), and I've done it slowly and steadily by eating right and treating myself well!

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I use essential oils every day and they have helped me so much with my weight loss goals AND about promoting my body image. I apply oils to my stomach to help tighten skin and I apply them on my trouble areas. Essential oils I use to lighten my mood, help me breathe easier while I exercise AND reduce my toxic chemical / product intake. Let me know if you have any questions about my routine ❤️

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I [try to] love myself every moment, and appreciate my functional body every day. trying to be healthier doesn't mean you hate your body right now. improving your health is usually because you love your body and yourself.

I don't personally think of it as "I need to work out and diet so I can change this ugly blob I look at in the mirror." it's more, "being healthy is important to me because I want to live a long, happy life and be able to do all the things I want to do."

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I self shame to make myself improve!!! It may not be the healthiest relationship to have with my body and mind but it works and I always love myself afterward lol

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Do what makes you happy. If doing yoga, running or biking make you happy.. Then do it. If eating at in N out every once and a while makes you happy, then do that too. It's so important to have a balanced, healthy life style. Find something active that you love doing.

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My health goals have always been focused on how I feel versus how I look! Faster results, and when you feel good, you look good! When I don't work out I get cranky, I eat badly, and I just become overall unhappy. My body has improved tenfold since I started working out regularly but it could always be better so why stress?

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Nothing is wrong with being honest with yourself. I know I've been hard on myself for the past month because for 8 years I let myself go. I became someone I don't recognize and I'm no longer 30 but 38, close to 40. Whether I want to or not I'm going to lose weight because I need to.

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Love your body where it is, but always ALWAYS better yourself. There is no shame in that. You deserve to be the healthiest you that you can be. For yourself, for your husband, and for your children. You can be over weigjt and beautiful, by it slows u down from being the best you that you can be- so better yourself! You won't regret it!

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going vegan helped me !

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