are.
beautiful.
You are intelligent, sweet, funny, talented, and lovable.
But most of all, you are beautiful - fearfully and wonderfully made by God Himself.
So PLEASE, stop counting those calories. Stop calling yourselves fat. Stop making excuses to skip meals or eat next-to-nothing at meals.
Call me insensitive, call me unsympathetic, but I am just angry. I'm really angry and fed up.
I'm so tired of girls afraid to eat what they really want to eat, or avoiding eating when they're supposed to. Maybe guys will look favorably upon you now, while we're still young and naive - maybe some will think you're unique or lady-like for not eating a lot. But when you get married, that's going to be a pain in the butt to have to deal with a wife who just doesn't eat or take care of herself, much less someone who thinks poorly of her self-image. Can you imagine trying to take a girl out to a nice restaurant for a date, only to have her end up eating nothing that you order?
It's important to be healthy, to know when you're eating food that is bad for you or when you're eating in excess, but there's a line between healthy regulation and obsessive control. Having food to eat is such a blessing, so why do so many girls abuse it?
I've done the research, I've heard it all - everything from "genetic disposition" to media standard influences to peer pressure to depression - but honestly? At the end of the day, if you truly believe in the love of Christ and the power of His name, you should also believe that you can get over any of these insecurities. Having an unhealthy relationship with food ruins the temple (your body) in which Christ rests. Period.
He loves you. Your community loves you. I love you.
You. are. BEAUTIFUL!
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this is so true and i hope that all the girls read it and take it to heart.
and even on a more scientific basis, the strategy just doesn't work out. by not eating, one's metabolism slows down drastically, thereby decreasing your energy levels and making you tired. not to mention, the few times that you do decide to ingest something, your body immediately takes it and stores it as fat since it knows there won't be another opportunity to get energy for a long time
thanks for telling me what i needed to hear
I like that shout out to guys.
I agree. Food is a blessing and we should enjoy it. Most girls do have ungodly deep insecurities about their physical image. And worst of all, they fail at addressing them by having an improper diet done the improper way with inadequate exercise. That's 3 strikes in a row.
And yes, what they should be doing is enjoying food, while basing their self-image not on how other guys look at them but on how God looks at them. And they should regulate their diet in a healthy way.
But I think you're equivocating with the term "beautiful." Yes, all girls are beautiful in that one sense that God treasures them to the infinite degree; but at the same time I don't know how just because they're beautiful in that sense, they're beautiful in the physical sense.
I think God would also agree that our physical bodies are not beautiful in that physical sense because it's a given that sin distorts not only our spiritual selves but also our bodies. Some people are born with only three limbs, some people have cleft lips; some people's eyes are too small like mine, while other people's necks are too elongated, like mine. Many people are born with a disposition to pimples and still most are born with a disproportionate facial structure as a whole, like mine, that barely agrees with the golden ratio or with everyone's innate aesthetic sense of how everyone ought to look like. There's a billion different physical faults that everyone has. It's wrong to say that they're okay, let alone beautiful lol.
Like you said, the best way to live with it is not to base our self-worth and self-image primarily on the spiritual image and worth that we have in Christ alone. And like you said, we need to take care of our bodies to not make it worse than it already is, while still enjoying the blessing called food that God has given us. And like I can only conclude, we need to refrain from falling into the illusion that just because we are fearfully and wonderfully made as sons and daughters of God, the physical IMPERFECT bodies, even in optimal shape, that we have here in this broken sinful world is okay and compatible with heaven.
yes, i agree
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