10 HEALTHY BODY HABITS
Spending oodles of time worrying about your weight, what you eat or whether you're thin as your friends is a big waste of energy. It's also pretty boring! Myjellybean.com presents tips for how to stop worrying and start gaining self-esteem, through healthy eating habits and positive thinking about your body.
Listen To Your Body
Eat when you are hungry. Stop eating when you are full. This sounds obvious, but it's easy to munch aimlessly when you're watching TV or gabbing with friends. Listen to your tummy, and let it tell you when it's had enough.
Stop Labelling Foods
There are no such things as "good" foods and "bad" foods. You can eat everything, as long as you eat in moderation and try to get a good balance in your diet.
Deal With Your Emotions
If you find yourself often eating when you're not really hungry, try to figure out what feelings you're having. Are you eating from boredom, from loneliness, from anger or sadness? Instead of filling your emotional needs with food, do something more constructive - play a computer game, go for a walk, phone a friend, have a talk with a parent or trusted female teacher.
Move Your Body!
We're meant to move around as humans - so get off the couch! Try to find a sport (like basketball, volleyball or soccer) or an activity (like dancing, riding your bike or playing frisbee) that you like and start doing it. Join a team, join a gym, hook up with a friend or get out by yourself - just do it!
Accept Your Real Size
Remember that healthy bodies and happy people come in all shapes and sizes, and that no one body shape or body size is a healthy one or the right one for every body.
Enjoy Nature's Bounty
Eat a variety of different types of foods, to satisfy your need for different tastes and textures.
Start A Happiness Circle
Keep in mind that people who are happy with themselves tend to attract other people who are happy with themselves. Get positive, and your positive energy will draw people to you, no matter how you look or what you weigh.
Put It On Paper
Make a list of the good things about yourself and think of it whenever you start to have negative thoughts. A healthy attitude in a healthy body is what you want.
Keep Growing As A Person
Never stop learning and trying new things. Different hobbies, like playing music, making scrapbooks, doing sports, collecting stickers, creating web pages, reading and drawing keep your mind active and your spirit in good health.
Practice Kindness
Don't tease people for being different - fat, thin, too tall, too short, physically challenged, etc - and don't join in other people's teasing. Part of being a healthy person is not making yourself feel good by making others feel bad.