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Our mission: to love ourselves, every last inch! To support others, help build positive self esteem! This is The Body Peace Revolution!

This is a place of encouragement, a place to talk about body image, a place for feeling beautiful. No matter what you look like, what color, what gender, what size or however many "flaws", healthy, not healthy, working on it, we are all human, we all deserve to be happy, we all deserve to love ourselves. With this blog you will see all kinds of REAL bodies, REAL people, REAL stories.

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you look great! have you lost weight? 

broadist:

ATTN: “You look great! Have you lost weight?” is not a compliment. I know it has been the go-to praise-route towards many women since the inception of puberty, but I’d like to put an end to it. Why do I hear this like a broken record every holiday?

Some alternatives:

• You look great! How are your new jobs going?
• You look great! How is your blog doing?
• You look great! Things seem to be going really well for you lately.
• You look great! You’ve been smiling all weekend.
• You look great! I love your dress/hair/shoes/demeanor.
• You look great! You seem really happy.
• You look great! (Period).

I don’t know who started the rumor that “Have you lost weight?” is just about the goddamn nicest thing you can say to a (fat) woman. Let me assure you: it’s not. I haven’t done anything right or wrong or good or bad for appearing to weigh less than the last time you saw me. Don’t congratulate me.

Use your head. Or, at the very least, be more creative with your compliments.

Remember that 95% of diets fail. Within 5 years, 95% of people who diet gain all the weight back. The majority of them gain MORE than they originally were. And when that happens, all they’ll feel is shame that people thought they looked better thinner. That’s not a way to achieve body peace.

BE BRAVE! JOIN THE BODY PEACE REVOLUTION!

(via randomlancila)