Weight

What I have seen lately is that everybody is obsessed with being super model skinny. I have struggled with my weight for a long time now... I am not extremely overweight, but I'm not super skinny. I have tried everything in the book: Diets, no sweets/junk food, exercises. I also play softball. For my height and weight the BMW calculator says I am overweight, but I asked my doctor about it one day, and he said from exercises I have a lot of muscle on my body and muscle weighs more than fat, but he suggested a healthy diet and exercises... which I've been doing... Sometimes doctors say the most pointless things...
One day I just gave up...I stopped obsessing about my weight, because I am the way god made me, and I don't need to be supper skinny to be beautiful. This way of thinking has made me so much happier and confident in myself. I am a healthy weight with a healthy diet and exercises. I just try my best to eat a healthy diet, and on occasions have some sweets and not just cut them out completely. I think that's why diets don't work because of craving for sweets will always be there and they will just build up if you try to ignore them; then a week later your eating a tub of ice cream and hating yourself. I also try to work out as many days as I can... I mostly end up working out on weekends most often, then maybe 2-3 times during the week day. I actually try to work out every other day, because one day I work out the next I am sore... I like to give myself a day to get over the soreness because I don't want to hurt myself. I also like to keep my work out interesting and not doing the same old thing everyday, like one day I will go swimming, then jogging, then bicycling. On the days I do work out it is about 1-2 hours. So that's what I do to try to give myself a healthy body.

I have seen my friends suffer from weight issues like I have, and it breaks my heart. I seen a friend become bulimic, and another one  is suffering with anorexia, and I wish I could do something or say something to help them, but when you tell them they are skinny they don't believe you, and if you say "that's not healthy and you shouldn't do that" it doesn't help either, because they don't like doing it; they just feel like they have to. So I always just end up saying "You are beautiful the way you are, and you shouldn't let anybody tell you otherwise." For me this was a difficult task also... sometimes looking in the mirror and thinking positive thoughts is hard. I try my best to stop thinking negative thoughts about myself and other; and it has helped out tremendously. I have a low confidence but trying my best to think positive has built my confidence up to where I feel like saying "you can take me the way I am or you can just leave with your opinions."
Magazines and Media don't help either: naming beautiful women that makes it look like being super skinny is effortless... and naming "the most beautiful person in the world is ____" I think that is kinda shitty, because there are beautiful people everywhere that aren't celebrities, actors, or models. How can you know who the most beautiful person is if you don't know everybody in the world?
What I think is that everybody is beautiful inside and out, no matter what. God made us all the way we where and he made us beautiful, and we don't have to do anything to change our natural beauty. So people, magazines, and media need to wake up and see what real beauty is, like nature and natural things. Not just people who hire other people to do their hair and make up.

Well that is my rant about self image issues... I was just disgusted reading a magazine talking about all the beautiful celebrities and what it takes to be beautiful. When natural beauty is simple, effortless, and amazing.