bewareofsweat:

“Dove hired a FBI sketch artist to draw seven women as they described themselves from behind a curtain. Then, someone else is asked to describe the same woman and the sketch artist completes another drawing.”

Powerful and beautiful message. 

1 month ago
dailyMYB: LET FITNESS MESS WITH YOUR HEAD. Fitness will mess with your head. Let it. Fitness can change the way you feel about yourself, change what you see in the mirror, change the way you feel in your clothes. It can shift your relationships with food, friends and work. It can make you into a morning person. It can stop guilt from setting in on certain occasions. It will change your self-esteem, up your swagger, and revolutionize that inner dialogue. Let it. Fitness will revamp you from the inside out. It will get into your head, stay there, and continue to mess with it as long as you’re putting the effort forth. Let it. Of all the millions of mixed marketing messages, billboards on every road and every screen, and push pull of the latest trends that are all ALREADY messing with your head, you might as well give fitness a chance to get in there, too. Change the way you see yourself. Move your booty. xoxo, Emily @ Move Your Booty

dailyMYB: LET FITNESS MESS WITH YOUR HEAD.

Fitness will mess with your head. Let it.

Fitness can change the way you feel about yourself, change what you see in the mirror, change the way you feel in your clothes. It can shift your relationships with food, friends and work. It can make you into a morning person. It can stop guilt from setting in on certain occasions. It will change your self-esteem, up your swagger, and revolutionize that inner dialogue. Let it.

Fitness will revamp you from the inside out. It will get into your head, stay there, and continue to mess with it as long as you’re putting the effort forth. Let it. Of all the millions of mixed marketing messages, billboards on every road and every screen, and push pull of the latest trends that are all ALREADY messing with your head, you might as well give fitness a chance to get in there, too.

Change the way you see yourself. Move your booty.

xoxo, 
Emily @ Move Your Booty

1 month ago

Making it count, one day at a time: Throwing away the scale

YES girl!! A true real life experience to prove just how much your scale can mess with your head and progress.

onetruebetty:

This post is a couple days in the making but after reading Move Your Booty’s email of the day I knew it was perfect timing.

This past weekend I was at home for my high school best friend’s wedding shower. Typically my trips home lately have been just 1 day and rarely spending the night….

7 months ago
MOTIVATION: love your body. What if someone hated you because of the way you LOOK. Instead of appreciating all that you DO.  That’s precisely what we do to our own bodies every day.  Read an awesome Strala Yoga blog post on the topic. (via Making Peace with Our Body through Yoga | Strala Yoga) How many of us can sincerely say that we love our bodies? (not just because we have the perfect size, height, or right amount of muscles) Until I started practicing yoga, I didn’t realize how disconnected we can be from our body. We can be quite demanding towards our body, especially when it comes to appearance: we want it to look a certain way or weigh a certain amount. On the other hand, we can also be so detached from our body that we just don’t care about what it looks like (but I will save this topic for future discussion). When we try to make our body meet our mind’s expectations, we can easily abuse our bodies without even realizing it. For various reasons, many of us develop an expectation for what our body should look like. We want to be leaner, taller, or more muscular. It could be to have a successful relationship, fit into a particular group of people, or succeed in a career. Working out and dieting are probably the most common approaches to achieve these goals. These two approaches can do good things for us, but done without mindfulness of our body, workout can simply feel like a chore, and dieting often means depriving ourselves of the food we like. Most of us who engage in mindless, repetitive exercise would find it hard to be excited to do the workout. Also, probably few people would be naturally inclined to choose kale or spinach over say, pizza or burger. We may feel like we are constantly at war with our body, because we have to force it do the workout we don’t really want to do, and eat the food that that we don’t particularly enjoy. Read the full article here…  High-res

MOTIVATION: love your body.

What if someone hated you because of the way you LOOK.

Instead of appreciating all that you DO. 

That’s precisely what we do to our own bodies every day. 

Read an awesome Strala Yoga blog post on the topic.

(via Making Peace with Our Body through Yoga | Strala Yoga)

How many of us can sincerely say that we love our bodies? (not just because we have the perfect size, height, or right amount of muscles) Until I started practicing yoga, I didn’t realize how disconnected we can be from our body. We can be quite demanding towards our body, especially when it comes to appearance: we want it to look a certain way or weigh a certain amount. On the other hand, we can also be so detached from our body that we just don’t care about what it looks like (but I will save this topic for future discussion). When we try to make our body meet our mind’s expectations, we can easily abuse our bodies without even realizing it.

For various reasons, many of us develop an expectation for what our body should look like. We want to be leaner, taller, or more muscular. It could be to have a successful relationship, fit into a particular group of people, or succeed in a career. Working out and dieting are probably the most common approaches to achieve these goals. These two approaches can do good things for us, but done without mindfulness of our body, workout can simply feel like a chore, and dieting often means depriving ourselves of the food we like. Most of us who engage in mindless, repetitive exercise would find it hard to be excited to do the workout. Also, probably few people would be naturally inclined to choose kale or spinach over say, pizza or burger. We may feel like we are constantly at war with our body, because we have to force it do the workout we don’t really want to do, and eat the food that that we don’t particularly enjoy.

Read the full article here… 

1 year ago