Body+Image

Kirsten- what is body image and true life stories a. First it is about Self esteem. It is pride in how you see yourself b. Body worth- it is how you see youself, worthless, or beautiful adn meaningful c. Also how you see your physical body and how you feel other’s see it as well. Dont be worried about how other see it though becasue it onbly matter how you see it d. You should have pride in yourself adn not get down on yourself e. A person who has high self-esteem will make friends easily, is more in control of his or her behavior, and will enjoy life more. f. How you see yourself on the outside, adn making your mind tell you taht you are beautiful and handsome g. When you have a positive body image you can accept yourself easyer adn otehr will acept you more as well. you will be more confident h. When you have an unpoitive body image you cant accept yourself very easily i. It is mostly about your feeling about yourself and feeling about how people see you j. Try not to think about how other people around you think of yourself, think about how you see yourself k. Surround yourself with good positive peopel who like you for who you are and who are not trying to change you l. Make sure you will not want to chang who you are becasue you are great just teh way you are. m. Infulences can include, famous stars, parents, siblings, and friends.

I asked him if I should wear makeup. He told me: No. Never wear makeup- you're the most beautiful girl in the world, and you wouldn't look like yourself with makeup on. Jake, you know exactly what I need to hear. You GMH.
 * I wanted to look prettier for my boyfriend.** Dec 29, 2010 07:00 PM by Zoe, WI - [|Love]

I didn't feel beautiful, or worthy of anyone. The next day, my dad gave me a boquet of flowers, a card, and poem he had stayed up till 3 am writing the previous night. He told me,"I love you, and you're beautiful". Daddy, your love for your little girl GMH.
 * I was having a particularly bad day.** Dec 24, 2010 01:00 PM by Bailey - [|Love]

"Today the obese girl in my year got asked out. Everyone laughed except for me. I was the one who asked her out. I think she is beautiful." Whoever you are you GMH.
 * I read this today on Six Billion Secrets.** Dec 23, 2010 09:00 PM by JordanR - [|Love]

He picked me up and said, "You better get used to this, cause I'm picking you up like this on our wedding day."We got married last night. He carried me just like he said he would.His promise GMH
 * When my boyfriend and I were 13, he wanted to give me a piggy back ride, but I refused because I thought I was too fat**. May 25, 2010 02:00 PM by Brooke S, Pittsburgh, PA - [|Love]

No boy visited me for days.Then one of my oldest friends, a guy, stepped into my ward, found me, held my face delicately in his hands and told me I was beautiful.Even now, he GMH. In your life you want ot be fit. teh food pyramid can help you out. the orange sliver means grains. You should eat at least 6-11 servings of whole grain bread, creole, crackers, or pasta everyday. Teh green sliver means vegetables. You should have at least 3-5 servings of dark green vegetables, orange vegetables, and beans, and peas. Teh red sliver means fruits. You should eat around 2-4 servings of fruit everyday. Teh sliver of yellow means oils. You should have this group of food very rarely. Fish, nuts,vegetable oil, butter, stick margin and lard. Teh blue sliver means milk. You should have 2-3 servings of milk,cheese and yogurt. Teh sliver of purple means meat and beans. You should have at least 2-3 servings of meat, poultry, fish, dry beans and nuts
 * After a house fire, half my face got burned, turning it flaky and horrible and I had to leave time to heal me. May 19, 2010 11:00 AM by Lilyana W, UK - [|Love]**

Adeline DelGatto -topics <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- how does it /affect us?- Addy <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+it affects us in good ways and bad ways <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+Bad Ways: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*bulemia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*anorexia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*obesity <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*bullying <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*depression <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+Good Ways: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*healthyness <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*Confidence <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*sports <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*Friendship <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**-** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bulimia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+Bulimia is an illness which a person binges on food or has regular episodes o significant overeating and feels a loss of control. The effected person then uses various methods-such as vomiting or laxative abuse-to prevent weight gain.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Anorexia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight, often coupled with a distorted[|self image] which may be maintained by various[|cognitive biases] that alter how the affected individual evaluates and thinks about her or his body, food and eating. It is a serious mental illness with a high incidence of[|co-morbidity] and the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It can affect men and women of all ages,[|races],[|socioeconomic] and[|cultural] backgrounnd. Anorexia nervosa occurs in the ratio of 1:10 in males:females.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Obesity <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">+ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Statistics- Sarabeth <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- 90% of women are affected in some way from the media ‘s image of women <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- 8 out of 10 women are not happy with their looks <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- More than 50% of 10 year old girls wish they were thinner <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- The average American women is 5’4 and weighs 140- the average model is 5;11 and weighs 117 pounds <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- The media’s idea of being thin will only be exceeded by 5% of women <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Body Image #1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- 45% of women and 23% of men in the healthy weight range think they are overweight

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leah:Sports and body image <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-sports encourages women to work on their body image in a positive way <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-reading sports magazines can promote better eating, participating in sports, and body satisfaction <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-most athletes on TV are lean and muscular, but they are not overly skinny <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-this is a healthy body image <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-also, most female athletes on TV don’t put on tons of makeup(even though they are famous), so it looks more like a normal body image

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sports effects on body image <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-allow kids to develop healthy habits <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-improve physical fitness <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-maintain a healthy weight <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-improve self-confidence (which leads to confidence in your body) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-help prevent diabetes and obesity <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-leads to a healthier heart <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-sports cause your brains to release endorphins, which make you happier and increse happiness in your body <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-playing sports keeps the body leaner <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-this is because athletic activety leads to more metabolically active tissues <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-exercise brings nutrients and oxygen to the skin <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For Addie: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[]__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have a friend that is constantly negative about her body image. She never feels like eating and is cutting her friends (me) out of her life. She says she does not have a eating disorder but we all know better. Her negativity does not only affect her, but her friends as well. We all know that she is not fat and ugly but we cannot get it into her head, that she is wrong. -13 year old girl <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|http://www.kidshelp.com.au/teens/get-info]__