New Year’s Resolutions: Body Image
Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? Pretty much every year I’ve made the same resolutions: to live a healthier life, to lose weight, and to get more exercise. In the past I did not feel very positively about my appearance; I felt self-conscious and uncomfortable in my own skin. It sometimes felt like I needed a radically different body type in order to fit in. But as time has gone by and I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to be more comfortable with myself and to make my New Year’s resolution about the benefits a healthier lifestyle brings to me personally, not what other people may think about my shape and size. What are your New Year’s Resolutions?
Mer’s Body Image Picks:
- Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
- This Book Isn’t Fat, It’s Fabulous by Nina Beck
- Cosmo Girl! Total Body Workout: Fun Moves to Look and Feel Your Best
- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
- The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
- Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
- Thin by Lauren Greenfield
- North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
- The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
- Yoga Exercises for Teens: Developing a Calmer Mind and a Stronger Body by Helen Purpleheart
- Artichoke’s Heart by Suzanne Supplee
- Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught
- Skin by Adrienne Vrettos
- Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
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