All bodies are good bodies!!!

amen!

Enough of the too thin, too fat, blah blah blah. All bodies are good bodies. Take care of your body. Feed it nutritious foods, exercise and keep it healthy.

All bodies are NOT good bodies. Some bodies are far too fat and have a very high risk of developing heart disease and diabetes. Nothing good about that at all.

I do agree that most bodies are potentially good bodies, if taken care of properly, as you say with nutritious foods and exercise.

But pretending that all bodies are good, no matter how fat or how underweight they are is counter productive.

But pretending that all bodies are good, no matter how fat or how underweight they are is counter productive.

Exactly this. I will be friends and support any body type without judgement - it makes no difference to me as long as they have a good personality. I am a very open person but...

When it comes down to it perfect body = healthy body to me. Health does not mean normal weight, there was an obese man that was running marathons, had amazing health, and cardiovascular strength. Very good documentary btw But if a morbidly obese person struggling with day to day activities and health problems well they just need a little more work to get there! Same as the other extreme.

I agree with the OP - there's a clear distinction between promoting obesity and promoting self love.

To lose weight, I had to stop seeing my body as the enemy. I needed to realise it was me, that I was my body, and that I needed to care for my body, nurture my body, not wage war with it.

You have to love who you are and accept who you are to actually want to look after yourself enough to lose weight.

Hm. But perhaps only someone who's actually *been* significantly overweight would understand this....

I agree with the OP - there's a clear distinction between promoting obesity and promoting self love.

To lose weight, I had to stop seeing my body as the enemy. I needed to realise it was me, that I was my body, and that I needed to care for my body, nurture my body, not wage war with it.

You have to love who you are and accept who you are to actually want to look after yourself enough to lose weight.

Perfectly stated. I agree.

I knew someone would have something to say.... I'm not advocating obesity, just love.

Love is a different issue.

You can love a three year old child who is having a tantrum, you can love an obese body - but you wouldn't want to set either of them as as an example or as a life goal! :bigsmile:

Love it! Thanks for the boost!

I think she's trying to say that all bodies are good bodies. Not that all those bodies are necessarily healthy but it's still okay to love yourself regardless.

I'm not sure one can really be successful at getting healthy if it doesn't come from a place of loving yourself. I know I wouldn't have stuck with this if I was constantly telling myself, "you're fat and gross," or if I thought of eating less food and exercising as punishment for having lived a slothful life. Instead, I thought of eating healthier (and really, it wasn't even a matter of eating "less," just eating better!) and being more active as the ultimate way of rewarding myself and treating my body right. It wasn't even a matter of losing weight (although it's a nice side effect)... it was saying, "I am WORTH the time and effort it takes to be healthier."

I have a friend who is and (always has been) textbook optimum weight. He is currently in stage 4 metastasized cancer... far too young.

It's okay to want to change our bodies to try to avoid certain health risks but there are NO guarantees.

The only logically valid reason for wanting to lose weight is to improve your PRESENT quality of life. If you're doing it to extend your life, your motivation is based on an impossible to predict future. You might extend your life... sure, you might get hit by a bus tomorrow as well.

We should all love our bodies and we should all respect the sizes and shapes and limitations and capabilities of everyone else's bodies imo.

There's a story attributed to the Buddha (but not in any of the Pali texts as far as I know), that after he came to enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, he looked around and said "wonder of wonders, everything is perfect exactly as it is".

"Unhealthy" bodies or not, we all have to love ourselves enough to make any change.

Regardless of size, everyone should honor themselves and believe they are worth taking care of.

I believe THAT is all Rach is trying to get across...

Great post! We have to love our bodies enough to want to make & keep them healthy.

I hope one of my mfpeeps doesn't mind me bringing this up, but she and another girl were having a discussion about this very thing today on Pinterest. It really has had me thinking about it. I couldn't agree more with the OP. I think women especially tend to be in competition with one another over the body type issue and to me it really seems insecure on either side.

The fact that a size 6 is now 'plus-size' is appalling! I'm in a size 6 right now and I feel tiny!! lol At the same time, we shouldn't try to gain body acceptance for bigger/ more averages sizes by swinging the pendulum the other way and using to 'one-up' slender/thin build women.

Real women have curves?? Bullsh*t! Real women have bodies, period!

I think that healthy habits should be encouraged on both sides. It's not good to undereat and never workout. It's not good to overindulge and gain excess fat. This is more about where a person stands with themselves. If they look/feel good about themselves, then that's all that matters because confidence is incredibly sexy.