Daily Inspiration - Accept your body

Accept your body. 

Are there parts of your body you find so undesirable you hide them from your spouse or significant other? Body image issues are common among weight loss surgery patients. It seems that some people expect perfection in themselves and find any slight flaw a reason for self loathing. 

Resources exist to help you loosen the grip a poor body image can have on your life. While you may not love every aspect of your body, you can work on acceptance, and perhaps even learn how to avoid obsessing about your body and how it looks. 

Action for the day: If body image is an issue for you, check out a book from the library about this topic today; or better yet, find a therapist who can help you work through your body image issues.

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Where you reading my mind???? Great information,,, thanks. Cathy

I know - today's was perfect for me, too, as I'm rethinking the thigh lift.  Not sure if the pain and potential problems are worth the possibility of minimal results.  So, I'm trying to determine if my desire to have them done is out of pure need (they do rub together, get sweaty and stuff) or if it's out of how I look at myself.   Make sense?? So...today's was right on target......