Wednesday, May 22, 2013

I love this!!! Thoughts on the idea "Strong is the new Skinny"

This whole post by Fit and Feminist was a positive reading experience for me!  I am a firm believer in strength training and this post really resonated with me.  Here's the take home:

We don’t need a new “skinny.”  We don’t need a new beauty standard, nor do we need yet another physical ideal hanging over our every thought and move like a little black cloud of doom.  What we need to do is change the paradigm so that we value our bodies for all of the amazing things they let us do.  We need to expand our standards of beauty to recognize that beauty shows up in all kinds of bodies.  And we need to get over this idea that the most important purpose we serve on is to be beautiful for other people.  We have a right to have healthy bodies, to take up space, to have appetites, to cultivate our strengths in whatever form that may take.  Our time on this planet is precious and we will never, ever get it back, so let’s stop squandering it in pursuit of meaningless ideals we will most likely never attain anyway.  We deserve so much better than that.

Want to read the whole post?  Click here!

HT to Weight Maven for pointing me in this direction!

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