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Love Your Body
By Carrie Myers Smith

While many of us have an easy time showering other people with
love, we find that Cupid has yet to hit us with the "body love"
arrow. Don’t wait for Cupid! Begin today to start appreciating,
accepting and yes, even loving your body.
Stop picking yourself apart
Let’s face it: No matter how close-to-perfection body you have
(and just what is the perfect body anyway?), chances are,
there is something you would change about it if you could.
Even celebrities and models who have been stamped with the
media’s "perfect body" rating have parts they dislike – their
feet, their hands, their ears – and they don’t necessarily have
high self-esteem either! Rather than pick your body apart, look
at your body as a whole (and read the next point…)
Consider the marvelous functions of your body
There are millions of microscopic functions that go on in our bodies every day, and you don’t even have to think about them. They
just happen! Unfortunately, it often takes a crisis or a tragedy, such
as a brush with death, a go-around with a disease, or a debilitating
accident for some women to realize that their bodies weren’t so bad
to begin with and that their body hang-ups were a big waste of time.
Don’t let that be the case with you! How much time are you spending each day worrying about your weight, your body shape, the size
of your rear? What could you be doing during that time? Maybe you’re
supposed to be the first f