When you are out enjoying a day off, there is that one dress hanging out for display which makes your heart go crazy! You imagine yourself in it and feel ecstatic. But the scene in the trial room is a totally different ball game. The smile turns upside down-what you see in the mirror may be miles away from expectations.
A lot of people would have experienced this heartbreak. This is just a sugar-coated anecdote in the life of a fat person. The pressure one feels to shed that extra flab not because its unhealthy but because of the mockery they would face from the world.
The art of body-shaming is something the world has collectively taken a PhD on. To mock and make fun of a person who is out of the supposed set measurements. Well , who decides them ? But the bigger question is who are they to decide ?
The general misconception is that a person is fat because they live to eat and not eat to live. There are tonnes of people out there who eat healthy and still are fat ! It’s got a lot to do with the nature of their body, health issues , genes and so on.
There are people who turn from fat-to-fit ! A big thumbs up if you eat right and exercise well aiming to become healthy ! But starving yourself and hurting your body is nothing short of cruelty. Noted nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar emphasises this point over and over again. So instead of running to impress the world, just focus to remain healthy. Eat right and treat your body with respect and love.
I’m not restricting myself to fat-shaming. Being too thin is also frowned upon. The truth is people will never stop criticising. If you are confident and much importantly healthy, the place for such irrational criticisms is in the bin.
So for the people out there who face these harsh words , stride past them with your head held high-just like water off a duck’s back. For the people who enjoy body-shaming, its time to wake up and realise everybody is unique. We are not clones.
The driving force that made me venture out to write this blog is a post I came across in Instagram by Vidyuraman.
It said,
Expected Measurements : 32:22:32
Real Measurements : Confident : Fit : Beautiful
Cheers!
(Image courtsey : google )
Amen to that
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Yes! 😃
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I Hope the world sees through your eyes.
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Thank you 🙂
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Man! This is just beautiful! You go girl! :*
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Thank you so much!! Means a lot to me bro :’) :*
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I beg to differ in one point though, working out ain’t hurting your body, that’s a very cruel gesture from your side to put it that way, burning fat is any day desirable and good 🙂, all the very best for your works!
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I said eating right and exercising to become healthy are the two ways to go about.
Starving yourself is cruelty.
May be you misunderstood . Have a read once again 🙂
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Oh yeah but what did u mean by the phrase ‘hurting your body’?
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I said starving yourself and hurting your body is nothing short of cruelty 🙂
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Hey what she meant was starving yourself is cruelty.😊
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yep! Thanks dude! 😀
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I like the use of real measurements. They take the focus off of numbers and out it on how people should feel regardless of size. Striving to feel beautiful, confident, and fit is healthier and more attainable than focusing on numbers. There are fat people who feel beautiful, confident, and/or who are fit but some people in society believe that fat people cannot be any of these things which just adds to the stigma and fat-shaming
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Completely agree with you. That’s the beauty of it. But it was not by me! I have posted the link to the Instagram page of the person who posted it. 🙂
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People will never stop criticizing. Self confidence, although it can be a challenge, is key.
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Yes! Thats the only way to attain happiness and satisfaction in one’s life. 🙂
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Very true. The inner beauty matters the most.
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Yes! But the world is so shallow !
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The world will change if we start changing our own self.
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Yes! Be the change you want to see in the world!
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Have a look at this post by one of friends at our website No Purpose Club…This happened to her in reality…
https://nopurposeclub.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/body-shamersdo-better/
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Yes I went through this post earlier today!
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Yet we are civilized.
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Thats the claim apparently!
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Still “Hope” has to be there, hope that we can prevail, hope that allows us to survive.
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Yes! Well said
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Like Luke Skywalker’s existence. “HOPE”.
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Bold and direct.very well written
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Thank You Varun! 🙂
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Direct ,bold and interesting.well written👍🏼
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Body shaming is so sad honestly!
And that first para resonates so well!
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Been there! Felt it !
Thanks Shreya!!
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