Improving Your Body Image

Body image is the perception you have of your body. People with ED often have a distorted body image and perceive themselves to be larger than they are. When you lose weight but don't change your thoughts about your body. You must start to accept and love your body now.
If you don't like your body, you don't like who you are.

By dwelling on the aspects of yourself that you cannot change and do not like, you begin to think negatively about yourself. You set yourself up to fail. This preoccupation with your physical self feeds your condition active.

It is important to see all aspects of you when thinking about yourself, not just your
physical appearance. You are more than your physical being and more than what you weigh.

If you do not start to accept your body, your body image will not change and you will become discouraged.

It is helpful to first concentrate on the part of the body you like the most. Once you learn to love that part, it is easier to generalize that feeling to other parts of your body. For example, if you like your eyes, look into the mirror and say, “I love you eyes. Thank you for seeing for me and being there for me.” Then choose another part of your body. When you hate a part of your body, think about what its use is and how it would feel without it. For example, change the hate of your hips to the thought that hips are necessary for you to move. They also protect your organs inside your body. Continue to do this for each part of your body that you dislike.
Let my body become my friend instead of my object of fear or disgust.

Learn to value your body for what is does instead of how it looks.

Focus on Body Experience instead Body Appearance!!!

Let's start now, today....you will discover a good friend :)

Marie