Healthy Body Positive Image Essay
Why do I want to be healthy? The question should be, why wouldn’t I? When you are healthy, you look and feel good. Who wouldn't want to look as good as they feel?
Personally, I’m already in a healthy BMI level, but one of my long term goals is to lower my BMI. When I used to be in the swim team my BMI was lower than it is now but now that swim season is over my BMI increased. Even if its still in a healthy range I want to lower my BMI to a 17 because I felt healthier and I liked it better that way. One of the ways I want to reach this goal is to add more fruits, vegetable protein and vegetables (salads, beans, etc) to my daily diet and to lower my grains and cheese intake ( pizza, sandwiches, pasta, etc). I could also start swimming and running more often and I can try to follow my 3 week diet and fitness plans so that I can reach all of my goals as soon as possible.
I’m trying to look my best but at the same time I’m trying to be healthy, I don't want to go overboard because I want to be ‘beautiful’. I think that one of the main reasons most teens -mostly girls- are not healthy is because they strive to look like the the models in all of the magazines and commercials because they are ‘beautiful’. When in reality we all are. The packet said that “ ...in today’s society teenagers are being sent mixed messages as to what beauty is” and I think that statement is so accurate to what is happening nowadays. When you look and feel your best and you learn to love yourself just the way you are; you will achieve your own kind of ‘beauty’.
If I ever get the chance to go visit some elementary school kids and talk to them about how to be healthy and what they should look like I would try to make sure that all of them know that they are all beautiful just the way the are and they don’t need to change for anybody except for themselves. That they should eat healthy and try to look AND feel their very best. I want to avoid at all costs that the next
Personally, I’m already in a healthy BMI level, but one of my long term goals is to lower my BMI. When I used to be in the swim team my BMI was lower than it is now but now that swim season is over my BMI increased. Even if its still in a healthy range I want to lower my BMI to a 17 because I felt healthier and I liked it better that way. One of the ways I want to reach this goal is to add more fruits, vegetable protein and vegetables (salads, beans, etc) to my daily diet and to lower my grains and cheese intake ( pizza, sandwiches, pasta, etc). I could also start swimming and running more often and I can try to follow my 3 week diet and fitness plans so that I can reach all of my goals as soon as possible.
I’m trying to look my best but at the same time I’m trying to be healthy, I don't want to go overboard because I want to be ‘beautiful’. I think that one of the main reasons most teens -mostly girls- are not healthy is because they strive to look like the the models in all of the magazines and commercials because they are ‘beautiful’. When in reality we all are. The packet said that “ ...in today’s society teenagers are being sent mixed messages as to what beauty is” and I think that statement is so accurate to what is happening nowadays. When you look and feel your best and you learn to love yourself just the way you are; you will achieve your own kind of ‘beauty’.
If I ever get the chance to go visit some elementary school kids and talk to them about how to be healthy and what they should look like I would try to make sure that all of them know that they are all beautiful just the way the are and they don’t need to change for anybody except for themselves. That they should eat healthy and try to look AND feel their very best. I want to avoid at all costs that the next