30 Habits & Beliefs that Hurt Your Body Image

• Not listening to your body’s needs, such as skipping meals when you’re hungry or exercising hard when you’re tired. 
• Hyperfocusing on supposed physical “flaws.” 
• Making numbers like weight and clothing size your body image barometers. 
• Letting women’s magazines determine your beauty rules. 
• Participating in physical activities that you can’t stand. (Remember movement is joyful! You just have to pick the activities you like.) 
• Confusing tension, unhappiness, anxiety and anger with feeling “fat” and thinking thinness is the answer. 
• Thinking thinness will garner love and attention that you actually want. 
• Believing body weight reveals well-being and health. 
• Staying in because you don’t think you look “good enough.” 
• Comparing your inside to others’ outsides. 
• Ignoring your emotions, and letting stress stockpile. 
• Believing binge eating can be fixed with a diet or weight loss program. 
• Not reaching out to others when you’re upset or clearly need support. 
• Thinking a positive body image means loving your body all the time. Even body image bloggers get down on ourselves. Avoid making your positive body image another trap for perfectionistic tendencies. 
• Not turning to healthy strategies to soothe your stress or manage your emotions. 
• Forgetting that beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, weights and colors. 
• Skimping on sleep. 
• Bonding with girlfriends over how much bigger your butt is. 
• Always eating on the go. 
• Blaming your body or your wilting willpower for not looking a certain way. 
• Keeping clothes that don’t fit. 
• Wearing clothes that don’t fit or make you feel unhappy. 
• Viewing food restriction as a virtue. 
• Waiting to accomplish certain goals until you lose weight (and presumably become worthy). 
• Similarly, waiting to treat your body well until you lose weight. 
• Criticizing another person’s appearance, weight or shape. 
• Eating what you don’t want because it has fewer calories. 
• Weighing yourself daily or weekly.
• Dieting.  
• Thinking your voice doesn’t deserve to be heard. 

I think I need to read this everyday :-)