A STARTLING STATISTIC

"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality" -  Les Brown

 We are constantly bombarded by images in the media of thin people.  Everywhere you look- in ads, on t.v., in the movies, there they are.  Society has been programmed to think that if you're not thin you're not fabulous.  I say this is totally not true, in fact, I believe "real women" are much more fabulous .  We are real and should learn to accept how fabulous we are instead of buying into other people's idea of what fabulous should be.  The media makes you think that you need to strive to be thinner, younger and more beautiful. We should be asking ourselves-" Who defines what's beautiful?" 
 Why can't we be happy with who we are?   Ever wonder who's behind the push to make us feel inferior?  Here's a startling statistic- The diet and fitness industry wants you to feel inferior because if we were all happy with ourselves it would be a disaster for them.  The diet and fitness industry makes $40 Billion a year.  Yes, I said 40 billion!  If we all suddenly learned to love ourselves for who we are, they would crash and burn.
 Why do we feel the need to try all these fad diets and pills anyway?  They do more harm than good for the most part.  I talked to one woman who is 60 pounds overweight (by all accounts obese) but her doctor told her she's healtier than he is.  Granted, this is not always the case, but we need to realize that we are being manipulated and there are huge profits being made from it.  We all need to stand up and say "I'm beautiful as is!". We need to stop buying into the media's idea of the perfect woman and remind ourselves we already are perfect and nothing anyones else can say will make us feel differently.  They will keep trying to make us feel inferior, but with $40 billion at stake they're not about to give up. We need to remind ourselves everyday that many people who are trying to make us feel less than fabulous are only motivated by the money and don't really care about us personally.  You're inner goddess knows this instinctively so let her voice be the only one you listen to.