Tips and advice on how to Love yourself

Don't be silly.
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First of all, how much of an idiot do you have to be to talk to me as if I’ve never heard that I should lose weight. Do you ever watch TV commercials? Listen to the radio? Look the hell around? By my count I get about 386,170 messages a year that my body is wrong. I’ve been fat for at least 25 of my 34 years so that’s 9,654,250 times that I’ve been told that my body is wrong. If I was going to buy into that bullshit I would have done it already. So how about you trust me when I tell you that the Nine million, six hundred fifty four thousand, two hundred fifty first time is NOT the charm.

—Dances With Fat (via fatgirlposing)

(Source: danceswithfat.wordpress.com, via fatgirlposing)

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

Hating yourself is pretty damn awful. Trust me, it’s way worse than being fat.

—Dianne Sylan - Ten Rules for Fat Girls

Manifesto:

1. You only get one body, so be good to it.

Your weight doesn’t matter, but your health does. If you feel happy, and healthy, then you’re perfect.
Someone thinks you’re beautiful. And if someone doesn’t, well screw them, they’re not worth your trouble. 

2. You only get one chance, so use it well.

Be kind. Love yourself. Love others. Even if they’re douchebags.
Feel sorry for douchebags, everyone thinks they’re a douchebag. No one wants to be a douchbag.

Enjoy yourself.

3. No one is worth any more, or any less than you.

regardless of gender, sex, race, sexuality, religion, weight, height, disabilities, musical taste, talents or intelligence - we’re all equal.