Getting personal.

Another quote I found on Tumblr that I wanted to blog about. 

'Accept yourself.'

I've been yo-yo dieting since I was about eleven years old, which means I've had a pretty unhealthy relationship with food and a warped view of how I should look for around eight years. That's pretty sad when you think about it. I always thought that I had to be skinny and that there had to be a small number on the scale and there had to be a gap between my thighs and an extremely visible collarbone for me to be 'pretty' or 'perfect'. Through all of that, I started to just hate everything about myself and constantly compared myself to other people. They always had nicer hair, clearer skin, thinner legs, better cheekbones, the list goes on. I would always think about how unattractive I was and it took up my every thought. 

 Well the thing is... I've recently discovered that you can be happy no matter who you are,  your jeans size, you hair colour... You can be happy if you weight 7st or 17 stone. People with a gap between their thighs are beautiful. People who's thighs touch are beautiful. 

Everybody has flaws too. Everyone gets spots and dry or oily skin. Everyone has bad hair days and days where their makeup looks weird or they can't find something to wear. 

All you have to do is accept yourself and love yourself for who you are. You're allowed to feel down sometimes, but you're also allowed to think you look good.

There's no better feeling after years of really not quite liking yourself, than looking in the mirror and feeling proud of who you are and happy with what you look like. 

Love yourself, accept yourself and be brave. 

Again, I won't take full credit for this style of post. I'm sure many people do this but I'd just like to give a little shoutout to where I got my inspiration from which is the lovely Louise Pentland, aka Sprinkle of Glitter. If you don't know her, have a look at her blog here. She does similar posts to this sometimes and I absolutely adore her. (and her blog.)

Oh, while you're there, just give her a little subscribe on the old YouTubes as well :) 

youtube.com/sprinkleofglitter