overcome body image issues

overcome body image issues

Overcoming serious body image issues can be very difficult. These issues can come from a number of places. They can come from things you learned or were told when you were little. They can come from magazines, TV shows, and films. Celebrities with photoshopped bodies are thrust in our faces on a daily basis, so it’s only natural that lots of people have started to feel bad about themselves. However, feeling this way isn’t healthy! Here’s how to finally start accepting your body and overcoming your issues:

Speak To Yourself Like A Friend In Your Head

Start paying attention to how you speak to yourself in your head. Negative self talk won’t help you at all, so pay attention and stop it when it crops up. Start speaking to yourself like a friend in your head instead. Would you call your best friend fat and ugly? Don’t do it to yourself, then!

Make An Effort To Eat Right And Exercise

Instead of hopping from fad diet to quick fix, make an effort to eat right and exercise. You’ll develop a sustainable routine, and it’ll be much easier than ‘punishing’ your body. You could end up ruining your metabolism if you’re not careful. Eating right and exercises regularly, listening to your body as you go. Download a plan from a professional if it helps you. Remember, you should first focus on your health and only then the way you look.

Focus On Your Inner Self

Why put so much pressure and focus on your outer self? Start focusing on your inner self too. Read more books, develop skills, and make an effort to learn. Learn how to manage your emotions and work through problems. Your inner self is even more important than your outer self.

Don’t Eat Your Feelings

It’s all too easy to eat your feelings in an attempt to shut them off and mask them. It’s much better to talk about your feelings. Even letting yourself feel your feelings and getting sad is better than gorging on food.

Getting Professional Help

In some cases, you may need professional help to help you work through your problems. More people have body image issues than you think, so don’t be afraid to get help. You can talk through your problems, pinpoint where they stemmed from, and rid yourself of beliefs you have that are unhealthy. You can then learn healthy coping mechanisms and become a happier, well rounded person.

Don’t Compare Yourself

How boring would the world be if we were all the same? Stop comparing yourself to everybody! You’re you, so celebrate your uniqueness. You don’t need to be taller, thinner, curvier – you’re perfect as you are. Embrace it. The best thing you can do is realise that you are enough. Loving your body at every stage is so much healthier than hating it and thinking, ‘I’ll be happy when…’. Focus on the things you like rather than the things you don’t like.
In time, everybody can overcome body image issues for a healthier, happier life.

how to throw a house partyFor most of my overseas readers, summer is nearly here, and that means that people are going to be having evening parties. Nights of entertainment arranged by you for your family, your friends, and neighbors. These types of occasions can be great fun as long as you know how to plan them right. If you don’t you could find that your house ends up a mess and you spend way too much money. Meanwhile, all you have to show for the party is a thumping headache and a few dozen empty bottles of wine. But don’t worry. I can show you how to throw an awesome party, avoiding all the issues.

Buying Alcohol

Unless you are actually hiring entertainment, this is going to be the most expensive party of the party planning. Buying the alcohol. You need quite a lot of it because you want to avoid the embarrassment of running out halfway through the night. But, as much as we love throwing these types of parties I’m sure you’ll agree you don’t want to spend a fortune. There’s good news on that front. If you look into buying liquor online, you’ll find you can purchase in bulk at discount prices. You won’t have to worry about plowing through your budget in one, swift purchase. In fact, you’ll have plenty of money to spend on other things.



Getting The Food

If you’re not the best cook in the world you’ve got two options. EIther, you can hire staff to cook it for you, order in or serve something that doesn’t require cooking. Lay out a buffet and that way your guests can choose and select what they want to eat. Anything that does need cooking you can throw in the microwave a for a few minutes. It won’t take a lot of time, and there’ll be plenty for everyone. The best part? Rather than an expensive order or paying for staff, this will be fairly cheap.

Watching The Weather Forecast

The trick to throwing a good house party for the host is to wait until the weather is bright. You might want to make sure your home is ready for guests incase it starts to rain. But you mainly want them to stay outdoors. That way you only have to worry about a garden clean up rather than your entire home. Trust me when I say this is far better. You might not even need to complete the cleanup yourself. You can hire a crew to get the job done for you. Meanwhile, your house remains in pristine condition.

Entertainment

Do yourself a favour and get an extension lead. Set some of your home speaker systems outside and let the music play. Just make sure that you do alert your neighbors what’s going on. The last thing you want is for your party to be shut down for disturbing the peace. This happens to adults just as often as it does to teenagers. The best way to deal with this is to invite everyone. If they’ve been invited, they can’t really complain.

That’s all there is to it. Follow this guide and you’ll have an awesome party in the in the summer, keeping your home intact.

I love the amount of great spots in Australia. This time, we’re going wider afield than usual. Instead of sticking to the east coast, we’re going to the other end. Broome is a coastal town and area in the Kimberley, the north-west region of Australia. The region is known for rugged wilderness well worth exploring and Broome is no different. But that’s not all it has to offer. Let’s take a look at this sandy, historically packed part of Oz.

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Cable Beach

Indeed, one of the best things that Broome has to offer over other great destinations in the Kimberley is its fantastic beaches. In particular, Cable Beach is a huge 22km stretch of beach that’s perfect for a most serene stroll. Camel rides are popular to travel this huge stretch. Broome holiday advice from Best of The Kimberley is one of the places you can check for when the beach is in vacation season.

Horizontal Falls

Of course, anywhere in the Kimberley is going to have some rough terrain that has to be seen to be believed. Horizontal Falls is one such place. Two immense gorges create an amazing effect. The rushing tide funnels through a line in immense pressure, creating the visual effect of horizontal waterfall. This is best seen from above and there are plenty of planes willing to take you over for a good price.

Malcolm Douglas Wildlife Park

Of course, if it’s the wild you want to see, then you want to see some of the fauna as well. Malcolm Douglas Wildlife Park, named after the much loved documentary maker, is just fifteen minutes from town. As well as a host of crocodiles moved from its old spot on Cable Beach, it has hundreds of kangaroos, rare dingoes and colorful birdlife.

Short Street Gallery

Not all the wonders of Broome are entirely natural, however. There’s great man-made culture on display as well. The Short Street Gallery in particular is well worth a visit. Here you’ll see the largest and oldest maintained display of indigenous Australian and immigrant art. There’s all kinds of styles displayed. Aboriginal, Malay and Japanese history living in a constantly revitalizing host of exhibitions.

Willie Creek Pearl Farm

Of course, one of the most important parts of history in Broome is the town’s pearl industry. This carefully farmed luxury has been a cornerstone of industry and economy. You can see the history up close in the Willie Creek Pearl Farm.  Also recommended is visiting the Japanese cemetery. Here the history of hundreds of pearlers’ contribution to the town is honored.

Sun Pictures Cinema

Of course, while you’re enjoying the town, you might want to take some time to catch a movie at the cinema. There are few better cinemas in the world for film fans to see than Sun Pictures. The longest running outdoor cinema has been entertaining with film and live shows for over a hundred years now. It hasn’t stopped today, either. You’ll not experience such a lively outdoor cinema so rich in history anywhere else in the world.

Have you been recommended therapy, or thought about having it in the past? Perhaps you have never really thought about it. Maybe you’re too concerned with the stigma attached to therapy to give it a go. Whatever you think, therapy does have many benefits that just about anybody can enjoy. Whether you have bad habits you need to kick or you’re just a total stress head, therapy could help. Here, the many benefits of therapy are explained:

Work Through Your Problems

The most obvious thing that therapy helps you with, is working through your problems. You’ll no longer feel like you’re going round in circles in your life. Having somebody who is impartial listen to you and help you can be a brilliant way to start taking those steps towards feeling better. Whether you’re looking into rehabilitation for a drug problem or you have a trauma you need to work through, therapy can help.

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Develop Skills And Techniques To Work Through Future Problems

Not only will you work through the problems you have now, you’ll develop skills and techniques to work through future problems too. You won’t dwell on your problems for too long. You might not even see them as real problems! You’ll know what to do to feel better.

Understand Yourself More

Therapy can help you to understand yourself so much more. You’ll learn many negative beliefs and thinking patterns that you may never knew you had. You may begin to understand why you think and work the way you do. Understanding yourself is key if you want to handle your problems and emotions better.

Understand Other People More

Not only will you understand yourself more, you’ll understand other people too. You may get a different perspective on why they acted the way they did, and shed a new light on certain situations. This can help you to forgive others for things they may have done.

Rewire Your Brain

Rewiring your brain isn’t easy, but it’s worth it. If you’ve always noticed the negative in situations, chances are you miss the beauty of life. When you require your brain to see things and react a different way, you might just find that your whole life changes. It’ll take time to break those old thought patterns, but once you do you may see the world in a whole new light.

Help Teach Kids A Better Way

Whether you have kids now or you’re thinking of having them in the future, you can better teach your kids after therapy. You’ll know how to advise them to handle their problems, and how to handle their emotions better. This will make for more well rounded adults!

As you can see, there are many benefits to therapy. No matter what you’re battling at the moment, therapy lets you know you’re not alone and helps you with any problems you may be facing. You don’t need to suffer alone. If you want to work through your problems and become a better person, therapy could be for you!

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Our hotel in Bangkok has a really nice rooftop pool/bar area where guests can relax and watch the day go by.

Since there’s a 4-hours time difference between Sydney Bangkok, I always woke up before the sun rise and could easily be the first one on the rooftop.

It was truly a beautiful way to welcome another amazing day and enjoy the best the glorious morning could offer.

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Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Wearing: Zimmerman silk dress

In the past, staying slim was relatively easy. Most foods came packaged as nature intended it.

But starting around 1960, the nature of food changed. No longer was food prepared solely in the home from fresh ingredients. Though the process had long been underway to make food more convenient, it was kicked into high gear. Women were moving out of the home and into jobs, and so there were just fewer hours in the day to prepare food.

What seemed like the march of progress has become something of a double-edged sword. It’s thanks to all that quick and easy food that we’re becoming so fat and sick.

Now people are looking for quick fixes for their health concerns. They’re asking questions like does no carb diet really work? Should I drink herbal tea? Can interval training help me lose weight?

But these interventions won’t work unless they get rid of the foods that are making them fat and sick in the first place. In amongst the nightmare that is our Western diet, some foods stand out as terrible. They’re head and shoulders above the rest based on the damage they do to our bodies. So what are they?

Smoked, Processed Meats

 

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Some of the most trusted nutritionists in the world have been railing against meat for decades. Meat, they say, makes you age faster, destroys your heart health and gives you cancer. Recently, the World Health Organisation came out and said that meat is associated with cancer as strongly as smoking. Bad news all round for carnivores across the world.

But within the category of meat, some items are even worse. Smoking meats, for example, contain elevated levels of heterocyclic amines. These are aromatic chemicals that make smoked meat smell great. But at the same time, they’re deadly, having been linked to cancer.

Processed meat is usually full of saturated fat. And eating saturated fat is a surefire way to wreck your metabolism. It, in effect, stops insulin from working by gumming up the works inside your cells.

White Carbs

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In the old days, everybody ate whole wheat. There were no alternatives to whole wheat before the nineteenth century, except in Hungary. And practically everybody was slim.

But over the course of the next hundred or so years, the germ and the bran were removed from wheat, leaving the white flour we have today. The problem is that the germ and the bran are the most nutritious part of wheat. They’re what stop it from being toxic to our bodies.

Sugary Drinks

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If you’ve been following the news at all over the last ten years, you’ll have heard about the problem of sugary beverages.

Not only are they high in sugar, but sugary drinks have no capacity to fill you up. There’s nothing solid there for your stomach to work on. Without satiety, your body can’t keep tabs on the number of calories you’re eating.

That’s why it’s easy for a person to drink 1500 calories of cola in a Big Gulp while watching a movie. The calories simply aren’t registered by the body.