Feel good about yourself and your body : why learn to do it, and what advantages do you get in loving and appreciating yourself for what we also look like aesthetically, and not just for our inner qualities? Today, finding people satisfied with how they look has become a real challenge , especially when it comes to women. Nine out of ten women would change something about themselves from an aesthetic point of view, while eight out of ten women began to dislike their bodies since they were little girls. And to fight it accordingly.

Today, loving yourself as you are aesthetically has become a business: if once it was only the models in fashion magazines that were an ideal of beauty against which to unconsciously or consciously compare oneself, today social networks, and especially instagram, offer a new touchstone. That of the influencers who work in the world of wellness, fitness, diets, who are followed by millions of emulators and emulators. We have pictures of flat bellies and stunning bikinis pretty much everywhere, and this media overexposure of bodies has long undermined the comparison with runway models.

The effects of these ongoing comparisons are only rarely positive. The obsession with a perfect and winning image has become a cause of stress for many women, who end up fighting their body for years with the only goal not of better health (that does not need to fit into a small or extra-small size. , you can be perfectly healthy even with 5 or 10 kilos more) but of a figure increasingly close to the standard one considered acceptable from a social point of view.

Obviously, loving yourself is not an obligation, a diktat. But personally if there is one thing that I find irresistible in people it is when they show that they like themselves and are totally comfortable in their skin, without wanting to change anything about themselves. Seeing yourself full of defects is like subjecting your body to the weight of a continuous and stressful judgment, which is often the antechamber of decisions that are anything but healthy , such as drastic diets that last a lifetime and impositions of various kinds, from always attending to plus the gym to weigh yourself every day in fear of gaining weight, to count every bite and pay attention to every kind of food, in a continuous and constant control of your life just to try to be like the others.
Can we learn to love ourselves more, to appreciate and care only about our health but not so obsessively about our appearance? According to nutritionist Lyndi Cohen this is possible . On page two we see her advice on how to do it.
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