LOVE YOURSELF

While the phrase "love your body" is used around a lot, not a lot of people take it to heart on the advice and continue to treat their body as trash. With the continuous change in trend, mainly the teens can't keep up. One day it's that "curves are hip" and the next is stick figures and models are loved. The ever changing "ideal body type" seems to be the one of the main causes of insecurity and body anxiety amongst the crowd.

Be girls and women or boys and men, everybody suffers from body shaming and insecurity and on top of that teens are a weird period in life where hormonal and physical changes take place. Being called "fatty", "mottu" Or "pig face" Takes a toll on the way they look at themselves and now associate themselves with those ments. Many people think only fat-shaming is the problem, but even thin-shaming is problem that kids too face.

Why is body-shaming so common? An example is dealing with conflicts with peers.

Why, when we are upset, annoyed, or intimidated by someone, do we default to criticizing their appearance? “Whatever, she’s ugly,” can be a go-to defense in these situations, particularly during pre-teens and the young-adult years. In some ways, it feels easier to shoot for something that will hurt, like targeting physical appearance, rather than expressing what is really going on emotionally. Saying, “I’m really hurt by how my friend treated me,” or “I’m terrified of losing this friendship” opens us up and makes us more vulnerable, and therefore feels easier to bury underneath the body-shaming comments that rush to mind. How you treat other people on their weight or what they look like shows who you are as a person.

Few ways to love yourself, inside and out, is to stop commenting on your negatives and start to thank what you love, be it even the smallest things like your ears. Rather than putting yourself through strict, unrealistic diets and devoiding the joy you get from eating what love, start exercising. Or if you hate to exercise, start yoga or dance, move your body and you may even find your new hobby.

Me being a teen turning into a young adult to suffer from this. Though I still don't love my appearance completely, I never take a toll on my body and I have never given up and I hope to someday love me for who I am and not let others decide for me... I hope you, the readers, can do too.

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Cited from The Shame of Fat Shaming By GINA KOLATAOCT. 1, 2016 and other related articles.