Heathy gets personal

Warning: Personal opinion. Don't like, don't read.

There's so many pressures on girls today. You can't be fat. You have to wear whatever everyone else is wearing to be beautiful. If you don't do what everyone else is doing, you're considered an outcast. If you don't watch, read, or listen to what everyone else is, you are behind on the times. If you persue what you want, you're a nerd or a dork.
Boys sometimes have these problems too.


There was a TV show on the other day. They interviewed people and showed them two pictures. One was of an overweight man. And the other was of an overweight woman. When asked to discribe the two people in one word, the man was discribed as 'lovable, cuddly, warm ect.'. The woman was discribed as 'lazy, nasty, fat ect.' No one actually knew those people, they were judging them just by their appearance.

Most girls are not super skinny. Most girls are size 10, 12, 14, and 16. And apparently, in today's media, that's considered fat.
Clothing brands such as American Eagle, Abercrombie, and Forever 21 produce clothes that seem to only fit 25% of the girl population of America. Just look around; 75% of girls in this country are normal and healthy. The media is destroying all ideas of what is actually healthy.

I walked into a Forever 21 store just last week and was very excited to try two cute dresses on. They were both XL, the largest size they carried, and I didn't fit into either of them. I shouldn't have felt bad, because I'm an M in most of my other clothes, but I did.
How many girls do you see walking around that are this thin? Only models.

A few people in my lifetime have called me fat. And I remember every detail about those moments. Where I was, who said it...And on bad days, when I look in the mirror, those memories come back and jade my true size.
It has only been since I have moved to a new place, and matured a little, found several friends that love me...that I have begun to love myself. I have realized that life is too short to focus on and worry about one tiny aspect of yourself. I know that God loves me, my friends love me, my family loves me, and so I love myself.
"There's a ton of pressure out there to meet impossible standards—to look right, be smart, be thin, talented and popular. If you're going through a dark period, remember that you're not alone. You can get help, and you can get better."

—Disney starlet Demi Lovato, in a PSA for the Jed Foundation's "Love Is Louder Than the Pressure to Be Perfect" campaign. Lovato, who has undergone treatment for "emotional and physical issues," is now out of rehab and speaking publicly about the problems that sent her there. "I basically had a nervous breakdown," she told Seventeen magazine, adding that her parents and manager forced her to get some help. She admitted in the interview that she had an eating disorder and said, "I will deal with it for the rest of my life because it's a life-long disease." She implored girls with similar issues to seek help. "If you are going through that dark period, go to your family and closest friends," she said. "Don't put yourself in danger. It's very crucial that you get your feelings out—but don't ever inflict harm on your own body, because your body is so sacred. … I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything."

I think it's time that we start loving ourselves for who God created us to be.