By Psychology Today
What do you think you look like? Body image is the mental representation an individual creates of themselves, but it may or may not bear any relation to how one actually appears.
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The term “body image” refers to our thoughts, feelings and overall attitude around how we look, how we feel and the way our body works. Breast cancer and its treatment can have a negative impact on your body image.
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . .
As Evelyn started to grow up and become a teenager, she looked around at her friends and started to notice differences in the way she looked.
From the leading bloggers in the fat-acceptance movement comes an empowering guide to body image—no matter what the scales say. When it comes to body image, women can be their own worst enemies, aided and abetted by society and the media.
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Weight loss is not the key to health; diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies; and fatness is not a death sentence. Dr. Lindo Bacon and Dr.