How do I work on loving my own body?

Hello, and good evening, I hope that you had a nice Friday. Let me try to give you a little bit of advice as far as your question is concerned.

First of all, I think it's really important to recognize that no matter what type of fitness level we achieved when we were younger… Adolescent, teenager, etc.… Our body is going to change. And that is simply a part of existing, that is a part of getting older, and it is something that everyone is going to experience. Now, of course, we want to take reasonable measures in order to take care of ourselves… Proper diet, adequate rest, exercise… But some changes are going to be inevitable. And we must recognize this. And we also must recognize that going through these changes does not diminish our value as a person. Because of course, these changes are not exclusive to us, this is something that everyone is going to experience.

Additionally, I think it's important to surround yourself with people who are going to build you up, we all like a little bit of external validation, and there's nothing wrong with having positive people in our lives, who are going to be able to help to provide that. You also want to be very mindful of your own thinking… We all have self talk, we all have some sort of an internal dialogue. And if this internal dialogue is consistently negative, that's not going to go well for us. Because we must remember that thinking, and feeling guides perception, and as they say, perception is reality. As a result of how we are perceiving the world around us… Well, that is going to guide our behavior. And as a result of how we are behaving, our environment is going to respond, our body responds, people around us respond, that's called our outcome and of course the outcome that we get has a direct impact on our mental health and emotional stability and well-being.

So what you should be doing is looking specifically to target some of the negative thoughts that you have about yourself and your body. Work to challenge those thoughts, and we typically try to challenge negative thoughts by trying to actually find evidence that supports them. And in most cases, when we really try to find irrefutable, evidence and factual basis to support our negative self talk, we come to recognize that there's really not much supporting evidence, if anything at all. And if we cannot find any evidence to support a particular thought or feeling, that's probably a pretty good indication that it really does not have any grounding in reality. And if something has no grounding in reality, it's definitely not something that we want to allow to guide our perception, behavior, and outcome.

I hope this helps you… Have a lovely evening and a happy new year!