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PERFECT BODY
Submitted by: Laura M
UKA student of life's adventures
I’ve always had lots of self confidence but this was always down to the fact that I had a boyfriend to tell me how pretty I looked.
After a sticky ending with a boyfriend I had the challenge of being single for the first time in four years and had to learn to love myself.
I experienced a fluctuation in weight for a while and started to develop really bad eczema under my arms and on my chest and some dimples on my behind!
This was crazy! I was twenty and it didn’t help that my friends had bodies that looked airbrushed! I started taking a huge hit on my self confidence. I was looking at images of these celebrities in magazines and looking at myself in the mirror and I developed body dysmorphia.
I’ve always been at the smack middle of my BMI for my height and I’ve always worked out so there was no way that I was as ugly or fat as I thought I was. I constantly would fret about what others were saying about me and my eczema was getting worse and my legs were getting more dimples!
I was attracting all of this to me because I was so worried and hated the way I looked after thinking I was attractive for all this time.
I was creating these things because I was giving them energy and hating them, my emotions weren’t in the right place. I was constantly willing them to go away and when they’d flare up and get worse I’d get even more stressed.
Finally after reading and listening to the Power and the Secret I realised that my end goal wasn’t to get rid of my eczema and my dimples but rather to have a stunning body with lovely skin that I could be proud to flaunt and be happy wearing a bikini.
Every day I would look at pictures of celebrities that had amazing body and skin and imagine that I had their figures and that I was down the beach and in university with shorts on, proud of my figure.
I felt the feeling of sun on my skin and being confident with people and having compliments on my figure from people and everyone being really impressed with how I looked.
Then all of a sudden I stopped investigating every inch of myself in my body in the mirror every day and I just knew that I looked amazing because I felt confident.
I stopped thinking about my eczema and instead hung up all of my tops that showed my underarms and bought shorts that showed my thighs and imaged what it would be like to wear them.
In no time at all about three weeks they were all gone and my figure was amazing and perfect and everyone loved what I looked like and I had so many compliments.
It all started by feeling confident on the inside and looking at the things I liked about myself.
I’d just like to say THANK YOU to the whole Secret team and Rhonda for giving us this empowerment to do what we want to do and feel as amazing as we do.
Thank you for reading!