Becoming truly confident in yourself and your body is tough, there may be moments you struggle with. It will all be worth it, I promise. However to be successful you need to make sure that you stop doing these 5 things. Once you stop doing these it becomes a lot easier.
Stop Comparing. Start noticing other peoples achievements without doubting your own.
It’s true when they say “comparison is the thief of joy” because when have you ever felt happier after comparing yourself to someone else. All it achieves is a negative feeling towards yourself where you pit you against them. What someone else looks like has no relevance on your worth, you deserve to be proud of yourself without the need to be like someone else. We can admire and be inspired but please don’t compare.
Stop belittling yourself . Start speaking from a place of love
The constant picking yourself and body apart, focusing on “flaws” needs to stop. By being negative with your body how can you expect to love it ? Would you speak to your friend like that? Bet you wouldn’t so let’s start using positive language when you speak about yourself.
Stop focusing on losing something. Start to look at all you are gaining
Because there will be more there than you first thing. When you stop focusing on needing to lose weight/size you are going to gain so much more time to think about something else. When we take away the restrictions from our diets we open the floor to try and taste many more flavours and foods. When the punishment element from exercise is removed you will be able to see all you gain from moving your body. There is so much we can gain from life why do we want to focus on loosing it?
Stop chasing perfection. Start realising your true worth.
There is no such thing as perfect. The perfect body does not exist as we are all different and that’s what makes us amazing. Chasing this ideal that someone has told you is perfect will not make you happy. Instead start the work to embrace who you are and what your body can do.
Stop punishing your body. Start respecting it.
Your body is incredible did you know that? It doesn’t deserve to be punished with fad diets and obsessive exercise. It doesn’t deserve your hate because you believe you will be better of it it changed. The goal instead is to respect your body. To reach a place of understanding with your body as is right now and realising that in this moment your body is yours and regardless of what has been or what is to come she deserves your love and respect. Only then can you start to work on change from a positive place. If you are struggling with this part check out this post it will help.
Change is tough, change takes time but the most effective way for change to happen is for that to be a positive one. As soon as you think negatively towards your body or yourself no matter the result you won’t be happy. It may seem on the surface that body confidence is a physical transformation. It isn’t it is 100% a mental one. I want you to be able to reach a place where you are confident in yourself and body that even on the days you don’t really feel it, you still know you are worthy no matter what.
