Have you ever felt like
a “low weight weakling?” Were you one of those
kids in high school who hated gym class because you knew your
skinny little limbs would be exposed to everyone?
Or maybe you were on the
other end of the scale. An overweight kid who was always the
brunt of the “fat jokes” and rarely included in
anything?
We have all seen the movies
where the “picked on ugly duckling teen” grows
up to be the swan, gets the girl and lives happily ever after.
Brings a tear to the eye and really makes for a good story.
But that’s the problem
. . . it’s just a story. It makes for good reading and
emotional viewing but what happens after the movie ends and
reality sets in? Sitting in the dark movie theater you can
almost believe it’s true, until the movie ends and the
lights come up. If you identify with the “skinny kid”
or “chubby teen” then you know that the real life
scenario is far from the movie version.
If you’ve spent the
greater part of your life wishing you could overcome a stereotypical
image like that, you need to pay close attention. No matter
what your body image, you can change it. It won’t happen
just by stuffing more food down your throat or starving yourself
to death.
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