2025-08-14
Remember to love yourself, hot mama
1. Your body is more than just what it looks like. Your body has kept you alive through a pandemic - how amazing is that? It works so hard everyday. Your body enables you to run, to do daily activities, to study and work and do the things you love. So remember to love and take care of it, and nourish your body and soul. Don’t punish it. Remember to eat, because food is fuel. There’s no bad food or good food.
2. Your clothes fit you, not “you have to fit into your clothes”. It’s okay to gain or lose weight, to go up or down clothing sizes. You probably don’t look like your high school self anymore because you’re not supposed to. Remember that some of us are growing boys and girls, and our bodies will change, and that’s totally fine ❤️ Remember to embrace it :)
3. There is no “perfect” body (long legs, flat stomach). Everyone’s body is different. You might see pictures of models online looking all slim and fit, their bellies flat. But no one looks like that *all the time* in real life. Poses, tensing, edits - you see the highlights, what they want you to see. You can unfollow accounts that make you feel bad. It’s okay to have fat, to have fat on your belly; it’s a food pouch that holds happiness!! Your perfect body is whatever you want it to be, as long as you’re happy and healthy and comfortable. You’re beautiful and anyone who tells you otherwise can shove a porcupine up their ass yeehaw.
4. You can love yourself just as you are now. You don’t have to wait until you’re prettier or thinner or more successful, more worthy to start loving yourself. You are worthy of love, right now just as you are.
5. If you don’t think you look good in pictures, maybe it’s because you have the kind of beauty that moves :) - a reddit comment I saw years ago
I’ve struggled with body image issues for a few years now, and these are things I have to keep telling myself. I believe them some days less than other days, and my relationship with food and my body still isn’t the best. But that’s okay. Self-love is a journey. I hope these little reminders can help anyone out there struggling with their body too ❤️
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