Body Image
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Celebrating my Buddha belly
Why do women hold their belly in? Letting it all hang out – letting our Buddha belly out.
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Weight loss magazines, food and you – an eternally vicious cycle
What do the diet industry and diet and weight loss and slimming magazines really offer us? Do they give us the way to attain a ‘dream body’ or is there something else going on?
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Childhood obesity: what are we doing to our children?
With the alarming increase in childhood obesity and overweight children in the world, are we looking at the deeper causes? What can parents do differently?
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Body Shape – curves from Heaven
We are born with natural curves, shapes and angles, so why do we think we are fat when we are not? This article asks what is beneath our pictures of feeling fat or of not accepting our body shape or weight.
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Wanting to be thinner
This article asks us to look beyond the mere physical for the answers to why we always want to be thinner.
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Ashamed of being fat?
Ashamed of being fat or failing at dieting may stop you from losing weight. Failing at dieting is not something to be ashamed about. Honouring yourself can be a new way to look at weight loss.
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Quick solutions and instant weight loss: looking for the magic pill?
We are looking for quick solutions, the instant weight loss, instant belly-fat removal without surgery, an instant solution – but does this really work?
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A body image lie: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
Starving to be skinny, poor body image, constant comparison with photoshopped bodies destroys our self confidence.
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What Is a healthy BMI? Does our ‘ideal weight’ mess with our heads?
Ideal weight has been guided by the BMI scale but it may not be the best measure for healthy weight. What if we could change the way we view ideal weight?
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Body Image
How we feel about our body image is influenced by TV, magazines, clothes. What if we can learn to build a true relationship with body image and embrace our true weight?