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Body Image

Body Image. What Does Body Image Mean?. Is a picture how people view their body and how they think others see them and their body. Body Image can be both a negative and a positive thing. It is a strong part of self-esteem. How you feel about yourself. Males Tall Muscular Athletic Macho.

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Body Image

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  1. Body Image

  2. What Does Body Image Mean? • Is a picture how people view their body and how they think others see them and their body. • Body Image can be both a negative and a positive thing. • It is a strong part of self-esteem. How you feel about yourself.

  3. Males Tall Muscular Athletic Macho Females Attractive Athletic Feminine Features Thin What Should a Person’s Body Image Be?

  4. Complete the following sentences, based on your own opinion... • Girls think that girls should look…. • Boys think that girls should look…. • Boys think that boys should look… • Girls think that boys should look…. • My parents think that girls should look… • My parents think that boys should look… • The media portrays most girls as…. • The media portrays most boys as…. • I think that girls should look … • I think that boys should look …

  5. Body Image and Age • What should a child look like? • What should a teenager look like? • What should a young adult look like? • What should an adult look like?

  6. What contributes to a negative body image? • Brainstorm some ways in which poor body image can be changed to a healthy body image. • Identify some barriers in making these changes and how to overcome them.

  7. Factors Contributing to Body Image • Self-esteem • Poor Diet • Adults / Family • Society • Peers • Media • Heritage / Country • Movie Stars / Models

  8. Guidelines for Building a Better Body Image 1. Accept that healthy people come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Bodies and weights are not right or wrong, they just are. 2. Do not compare yourself to others. You are a unique person who has inherited a body that is suited for you. 3. Define beauty for yourself. Do not let media or others tell you what to think about your body’s beauty. 4. What media portrays is not reflecting reality; there is no such thing as a “perfect body.” 5. Look in the mirror and notice what you like about your body. 6. Begin to appreciate your body and what it can do by engaging it in such activities as stretching, dancing, meditating, running, cycling or other sports and recreation Dove Ad

  9. 7. Be aware of the messages your body gives to you and respond to them appropriately. For example, if your body is tired, rest it. If it is full, do not feed it any more. 8. Remember that there is more to you are than just your weight or your body size and shape. 9. Live in the present. If you are always waiting to get thin or develop a large muscular physique before you do this or before you can be that, then you will spend most of your life waiting and not doing or being. 10.Learn to nurture yourself with things other than food. For example, give yourself time to relax and do nothing, read a book for pleasure, or write in a journal. 11.Leave the scales on the fish. Do not allow numbers to determine how you feel about yourself or how your day goes. 12.Wear clothes that you find attractive and comfortable. Wearing uncomfortable clothes may cause you to be dissatisfied with your body.

  10. The Best I Can Be!!! It’s not about muscle, it’s not about weight It’s not about inches or getting a date. It’s got nothing to do With comparing your looks To the models you see In those glossy books. Your body’s the temple that houses your soul So keeping it fit serves more than one goal. My body’s the one thing that Belongs just to me So that’s why I’ll keep it The best it can be. Val Mahon

  11. Healthy • What makes a body healthy?  • (Balanced diet, exercise, lots of sleep etc.) • Do you have to be thin to be healthy? • How might wanting to look like the people we see on television and in magazines be a negative thing?  (People who desperately want to be thin may develop eating disorders, exercise obsessively, or turn to smoking or drugs as a way to control appetite. They may develop low self esteem and become depressed if they can't change the way they look.) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCH8UypKZtI&feature=related

  12. Self-Evaluation on Body Image • List 10 features that you like about yourself. • List 5 features that you may not like about yourself or wish to improve.

  13. Family Culture Other (Job, Coach, Health Professionals Peers Teachers Media (TV, Magazines, Movies, Fashion

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