#bodyintervention

My hopes for tomorrow are that I will not feel as terrible about myself as I did today and that I find a better pair of high heels to wear, because flip my feet are sore!  

It is not only females who feel pressure from the media to look a certain way. This site has some before and after picture of both men in the media as well as people who on their own use Photoshop to change their appearance. How do these images make you feel about your own body? Does this affect how much you trust images in the media?

Often, lunches are the meals that are over looked, and in a pinch anything will do. However, a healthy lunch is still very important. Here is a great five day schedule for healthy and nutritious children's lunches:http://www.freshforkids.com.au/lunch_box/pdf/meal_plan.pdf Another really great list includes healthy lunches and snacks for five days:http://www.freshforkids.com.au/lunch_box/pdf/FreshForKidsRecipeBooklet.pdf

Here is a great exercise to do to help create happiness with your body. Ask five people (or more!) what they think is your best body feature. You may be surprised what they say. This can also help you see your body how others see it (which may be different from how you view your own body).

Eating healthy foods is beneficial to your body and can help improve moods. Here is a link to explore a website with lots of tips on recipes, exercise tips (including how much exercise is too much), links to information to help explain food allergies, and lots of advice on how to eat healthy.

For everyday for the next week, write down one thing you like about your body (this way you will have 7 by the end of the week). You can write, draw, talk with a friend or guardian, whatever feels the most comfortable for you.  Notice how you feel as the week goes on as you think of new things you like. Did you realize you liked them? Did it get hard to think of a new area as the week went on? How do you feel about your body after completing the week?

This is an informative and interesting video by Diet.com that demonstrates how often photoshop is used in the media and how many of the photoshopped images of celebrities show unobtainable bodies. How does this knowledge make you feel? Are you less likely to want to try to obtain a 'celebrity' body? If images are always photoshopped, do we know what celebrities really look like?

One definition by Psychologists Low, Charanasomboon, Brown, Hiltunen, Long, Reinhalter, and Jones is: The Thin Ideal is the concept of the idyllically slim female body. The common perception of this ideal is that of a slender, feminine physique with a small waist and little body fat. How would you describe this in your own way? (You can draw pictures, speak, write, however works best for you)