Negativity Stats

Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy.....

Recent research conducted for new eating disorder charity The Succeed Foundation, in England found that 30% of women would trade at least one year of their life to achieve their ideal body weight and shape. 93% of the women surveyed reported that they had had negative thoughts about their appearance during the past week. 31% had negative thoughts several times a day.

What good do those negative thoughts do? Is hating your body going to make it magically change? Nope. Is thinking negative thoughts about your appearance going to make you more attractive? Not at all. In fact they often turn right around and bite you in the back, as they make you seem insecure, unsure, and not confident.

So let's reshape that inner dialogue.

What is one thing you love about yourself today?
repeat after me: I am so absolutely incredibly extraordinary

How often do you have negative thoughts about your body? What will you do this week to reshape that inner dialogue?

Let out your Inner Lion!

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Do one thing every day that scares you!

How will you challenge yourself today?

Slow Down, you crazy child!

"Wow, you eat really fast don't you?"

I glanced up from my meal with my roommate, looked down, and replied "yes, I guess I do. I need to work on that"

Cause that's what being Guiltless is about, right?

Acknowledging that no one is perfect and we all have things we could work on to make ourselves happier, healthier, and more satisfied.

My name is Elizabeth Jarrard and I am a speedy eater. I don't feel like I rush through my meal, but I definitely can eat at quite the clip. And as much as I advocate mindful, intuitive eating, it's also something I am working on myself.

So this week I'm challenging myself to slow down and make sure I am eating my meals with intent and mindfulness. How hungry am I? Am I full? Am I satisfied? What am I craving? Can I chew that 5 more times and savor every single nuance of flavor? This will be the week that I slow down. Maybe i'll love it, i know i'll learn something!

What things challenge you this week?

Think about it: Women's vs Men's Magz

Just a thought for Friday:**image shared by our friend Allison**
Agree?

Pizza Love Affair

This clip says it all.


Enjoy your bodies. Live your life. And eat some really super delicious pizza (hold the guilt)!

More than just a pretty face...

by: Stephanie Horton

Lindsey and Lexi Kite are making a difference in the world, and I want to tell you about it. These 25-year-old twin sisters, who also happen to be Ph.D. students at the University of Utah are taking a stand against body image bashing. The two have come up with a website called Beauty Redefined, and they are spearheading an initiative that will put up twelve billboards throughout Utah promoting healthy messages like, "There is so much more to be than eye candy." Well said!

Reagan Outdoor Advertising is providing the space for the billboards, and a safe haven for girls with self-esteem problems called New Haven is the sponsor. The Kite sisters are focused on making a change in body-messages in the popular media, which their research suggests is a major root of America's body image distortion problems.

They hope these public service announcements add to our beauty revolution and inspire women and girls throughout the state of Utah, and hopefully throughout the country, to see themselves as much more than simply something to look at.

We applaud you, Kites! And we are armed with the tools to help you and women and girls everywhere "take back beauty!"

HOW WILL YOU REDEFINE BEAUTY TODAY?

Moving Along with Changes

"I have an everyday religion that works for me.

Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."
-Lucille Ball

Moving can be a difficult transition for your self image and how you feel about yourself. Sometimes we place so much of who we are on where we are, our friends there, and the image we have created for ourselves there that moving disrupts the entire thing. Do you cling to what you were in that other place or do you attempt to start anew in this new city?
Growing up I always knew that i would be leaving the town I was born in, and the move to Boston was easier than expected. I already tried the "moving (literally) outside my comfort zone" by studying abroad in Thailand during highschool. But the college transition always seems loaded with extra importance as you are starting your move to "real life." I bought new clothes, I contemplated changing my nickname (didn't end up happening. Although ZsaZsa would have been pretty badass) and worried that I would have no friends and not fit in or find my niche. I worried that i would struggle to swim being one little fish in a gigantic school, in a brand new town, in a whole different coast. My worries were misguided and I found my way just find. I made amazing friends, found my true calling (nutrition, not a research biologist), and had a great deal of fun.
Yet, as I move in Houston today, I find myself facing these same fears. While I do feel a bit older and wiser than I was in my previous moves, I also feel the same state of unpreparedness. My entire life is about to be unpacked from my compact car, and I haven't stocked up on an entire new wardrobe. I am in a place I have never visited, or really thought much about before this April. I am leaving huge parts of my heart, with the people and places I love in Boston and Wyoming. I have centered a lot of who I am by where I have been living, and wonder what this new Texas image will look like. I have new people to meet and new topics to study and adapt to.

So I'm holding Lucille's words close to my heart. And carrying the religion of self-respect into this new life. As I venture into the great unknown in this Lone Star state

-Elizabeth
How do you deal with geographic moves, be they near or far? How has your self-image changed as you have moved?