One of the reasons Fit After Thirty exists, is to help encourage positive and healthy attitudes in women, about their bodies. A healthy approach to body image starts in the mind.

Whether someone needs to lose weight, gain weight, or just improve health on the inside, she must do it with self-love and a positive attitude. Although a lot of women in America need to lose weight, a great many of women think they need to lose weight, even if they don’t. Some of this body dysmorphia stems from the unrealistic images that bombard women everyday in print media and on television.

Our culture’s fame-obsessed media machine spins women in a vicious cycle like lab rats on a wheel, one day feeding us photos of unattainable airbrushed perfection, and the next, blasting the airwaves with stories of a pop star’s weight gain which amount to nothing more than public ridicule, while purporting to be news. The message is clear: regardless of how beautiful or talented you are, if you look like this, you are accepted; but if you look like that, you are not. 

If a female consumer of that brand of “news” is not careful, she is liable to get caught in the spokes of the wheel by either becoming hyper-critical of her own body, and/or by taking perverse pleasure in seeing another woman not at her best, because it makes her feel better about herself.

Whichever the case, it is poison to her spirit. So, essentially the media uses a female celebrity as a sacrificial lamb, inflicting great pain and self consciousness in her in order to prey on the insecurities of the masses. Do you see a pattern here? All women lose! 

Take a look at some of these statistics related to body image and women, listed on MomGrind.com.

And next time you’re tempted to partake in a spoonful of negativity and shame, either about yourself or someone else, remind yourself you are now a part of a new club that believes fat means Fit After Thirty, and with the right mindset, anyone can be *f.a.t.!!