Beauty

So as many of you know I have been working on losing weight and I have posted my very emotional journey, but I am now going to comment on beauty. In the world there are different things that people do that are considered beautiful. In some African ethnic groups wearing a plate in your lip is beautiful, in others having long earlobes is considered attractive. In some places in the world being rail thin is beautiful. In others like Samoa being a large person is beautiful. In America, it has only been in the past about 30 years that we have considered thin and extremely thin to be beautiful. With all of these options and conflicting ideas of beauty my question becomes, what really is beautiful? I have decided that beauty is when you are comfortable with yourself. It is journey into self understanding and acceptance. Some people are happy just with who they are. I realized that I can not be successful in weight loss until I feel beautiful in every step of the process, only then will the weight loss be healthy. Only then will the weight loss be for the right reasons. I may find that I am completely content with how I look or I may say, "ehh this is a bit large and uncomfortable for me. "
I have also been looking at old pictures of myself and said, "Oh in eighth grade I was a size 8 that is the perfect size for me." I have recently realized that I was a child in eight grade and I was working to develop the body of a woman. I said the same thing about myself when I was 17. Again, I was a child. I really really realize that this should be about my health and how I feel about myself, anything more than that is in my opinion a wrong reason to lose weight. So for right now I am a beautiful, buxom, busty, bootylicious Black woman that is going to love herself for herself and I implore every woman to embrace every positive attribute about herself as that is the only way for us to be secure in all situations in our lives.

Ms. Denva