Binge on Self-Love

Our bodies change and will keep changing as we age and step into different phases of our lives. That's a normal part of being a human being. 

As women, we are being taught to worry about having cellulite, stretch marks, wrinkles and our weight fluctuating through the month. 

The diet industry, the cosmetic brands, and the media tell us to fight our "imperfection" by using their products and services. 

But are they really imperfection? If our skin would stay the same, we couldn't grow into the person we are right now. If our bodies weren't able to adapt, we wouldn't be able to make it through some of the most challenging periods of our lives.

In today's episode, Anci talks about stretch marks, cellulite, and weight fluctuation as something that so many of us feel insecure about, even though it's just a normal part of being a human.

MENTIONED RESOURCES:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/weight-fluctuation#causes-of-fluctuation

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/149465#_noHeaderPrefixedContent

https://www.aad.org/public/cosmetic/scars-stretch-marks/stretch-marks-why-appear

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In this episode, Anci shares her five tips on what helped her during her binge eating disorder recovery.

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EPISODES ABOUT ALL OR NOTHING MINDSET:

https://anchor.fm/bingeonselflove/episodes/48-Its-Time-To-Let-Go-of-the-Idea-of-Ideal-Body-e1d1e0b

https://anchor.fm/bingeonselflove/episodes/16-The-Good-Food-vs--Bad-Food-Approach-ep32c2

https://anchor.fm/bingeonselflove/episodes/03-Perfectionism-and-Eating-Disorders-ej5s4t

Life is about finding a balance in everything we do - in working, eating, moving our bodies, spending time with our loved ones and with ourselves, in creating and consuming, etc. Therefore it's to no surprise that finding a balance can be…well, complicated sometimes. 

We want to treat our bodies the right way, we want to be active, but also take enough time to rest, we want to look good and feel good, we want to eat nutritious food, but we also want to stay sane and enjoy eating whatever we're craving. How do we find the balance between trying to juggle everything, between trying to be perfect and not trying at all; how do we find the balance between being obsessed with health and being healthy and living our life?

Listen to today's episode where Anci talks about finding balance in food, exercise, and self-love.

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I've recently come across a comment in a fitness community on Facebook - it was a comment of this girl who shared her feelings that seeing before and after photos of people on the internet makes her anxious and has a negative impact on her. She said something that resonated with me and what I believe will resonate with many of you - that when people share the before and after photos of themselves, it's usually perceived like the "before" version was unhappy, "fat", and ugly, whereas the new, lean, thin and toned version is pretty, happy, and most importantly, celebrated by others. 

Logically, that makes it seem like the "before" version wasn't good enough because of their weight and appearance. The emphasis on the weight and the appearance, yet again, makes it seem like we can only be happy and loved and feel beautiful if our scale shows a lower number than it did a day before. 

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Interesting articles on similar topics:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/before-and-after-photos-weight-loss_l_61252851e4b07fee0cb266a3#

https://www.image.ie/editorial/shouldnt-celebrate-weight-loss-138114

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dont-compliment-people-on-weight-loss_n_6062086cc5b67593e05affc8

The Binge on Self-Love podcast is about eating disorder recovery, accepting and loving yourself and about loving your body just the way it is.

And therefore, in this episode, Anci takes some time and talks about the recent campaign that has spared so much controversy that it actually got banned in the United Kingdom. The campaign promotes their new sports bras, using photos of bare breasts of different shapes and sizes of 25 women.

Everything stated in this Binge on Self-Love podcast episode is just the author's personal opinion and this episode, this content, and this podcast are not, in any way, related to any brands mentioned in this episode.

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In today's Binge on Self-Love podcast episode, Anci shares her personal tips on how to get more self-love into your life on a daily basis. 

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In today's episode, Anci shares her recent feelings and realizes that in order to build confidence and create our values, we need to accept ourselves with everything that comes with it. We can spend our life hating ourselves for the way we look, the way we act, and the decisions we've made, or we can accept that as part of our past that does shape us in some way, but doesn't define our future.

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The summer season is slowly but surely getting close, and once again, it's the time of the year when all over social media, the internet, television, magazines, etc., you get to see ads and content dedicated to getting shredded for summer. When you google "get summer body", you'll get over 6 billion results on how to get in shape for summer, how to get summer body ready in just a couple of weeks, how to get a beach body fast, and so on.  

I think that the whole idea of changing your body for the summer is insane, twisted, and unhealthy for anyone's confidence and body image, let alone for people struggling with any form of an eating disorder.

In this episode, Anci talks about why the "summer body ready" is bullshit, and it's just pure marketing, and why we don't need to get summer body ready.

Episode on Body Ideals mentioned in this episode: https://anchor.fm/bingeonselflove/episodes/48-Its-Time-To-Let-Go-of-the-Idea-of-Ideal-Body-e1d1e0b

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