Where I live, most people are fairly thin. I don't really see many obese women at all. But I have definitely become less judging and more accepting. This has helped with my own body image. A couple of years ago, I would look at people and focus on all the imperfections, to make myself feel better - terrible, I know. But I was 14 years old. Now, I've taught myself to find all the beautiful things in everyone, and that has created the ability in me to find the positive things in myself too. So all in general, everything is a bit brighter and more 'pink' because of my changed way of thinking - at least, that's how I feel now. I still have ups and downs of course.
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I kind of have an example of this - I recently joined a gym, and I started dancing zumba, latinmix, funk and stuff. A year ago, I wouldn't have been able to dance my heart out, because I was so judging, and thought that everyone judged everybody as much as I did. But now, I realized that I trust the people around me a bit more, and I've learnt to not care as much about how I look when I'm dancing and such. :-)
I have quite a skeptical view when it comes to the food industry, though. But that might just be a good thing :-P
