When I first encountered this short but strongly compound word: "Self-Acceptance" in the context of body shapes and weight loss, I kept thinking for a while but then, my mind called me back mumbling, with some words like:
"Yes, my dear body, but who on our earth is really accepting and loving his/her body as-is?!"

This might have happened to you as well, as everyone around you keeps complaining about body shapes, eyes, hair, teeth and so on. Every part of our body is being scrutinized.

It is true that we, as human beings, tend naturally to love and seek perfection in every aspect of life. Maybe (I'm saying maybe :) it is because our soul is originally perfect but the surrounding shape is not. So we hear that small but deep voice inside which is still remembering our perfection.

By the way, what is the definition of being perfect, anyway?

We can ponder this question the whole day long.

Isn't it as simple as saying: our body is being treated as a profitable product undergoing canine market rules?

On one side, we have the stereotype, and short-sighted view, that fat people are not doing their best to fit into "society's standards and norms". (Who defines it anyway?)

Society requirements first, your requirements second!

For most, society has done enough, you have all kinds of diet pills, weight loss diets, sports, diet recipes, nutritionists, just pick one and follow it!

On the other side, there is a growing vision stating that the person should be the main concern, as not all that society requires is reachable due to various reasons. Society can and will follow this trend ending up by accepting people as they choose to be, regardless of size and weight, giving them fair and equal chances in all domains of life.

It is not as simple as it may seem. There are so many arguments and counter arguments.

Everyone is singing their own tune.

Let's talk frankly, look around you, who is making the big cash easily from all of this?

People that claim to have the ability to give perfection where there is natural human imperfections.

Smart "busy men" having the skills to merchandize desperate hopes and aborted wishes in elegant pages and shiny bottles. Those pretending they can make you look younger than the youngest of your grandchildren. It is a tremendously huge industry playing not only with billions of dollars, but also with billions of your body cells.

Wish a wish. Oh! You say weight loss! Sure, we can handle it right away with our steamy-creamy product and magic diet pills instead of your costly honest nutritionist!

They can make you visit the moon while sleeping just for a small piece of your credit card.

This is the science of dividing time and multiplying results. Dividing your budget and multiplying your disappointments. Dividing the indivisable and saying the unspeakable.

Weight loss is an issue related directly to our entire life, either social or financial. It is really the golden word feeding the engines of so many industries.

There are so many honest diet specialists and pharmaceutical companies doing their best to help us control our weight. Diet plans and the suitability of pills may vary from person to person depending on many factors such as your current weight, age, medical history such as diabetes and so on. So, be medically advised before going through any healthy diet plan, otherwise you may end up harming yourself.

Till next time, take care of your cells :)

Rabah Qial is a senior author and member of FattyBeauty.com edition team. In addition to Biology and computer science, he is interested in scrutinizing the relation between diet and self-acceptance/self-esteem trends.

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