What is the best way to improve my self esteem?
What is the best way to improve my self esteem?
I find myself suffering from a low self esteem at times due to me being overweight. As much as I try to accept who I am for what I am I feel my inner happiness will not come unless I lose weight and losing weight is a whole issue within itself. How can I improve my self esteem without relying on weight loss as my ticket to happiness?
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Answer by sunflare63
Stop thinking about neck down—just use your brains and stay busy and the weight will come off naturally.
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Losing weight can be hard, but the best way to improve you self esteem is by just eating a balanced diet and exercising. It seems hard, but once you do it you’ll feel a lot better! If you really don’t want to do it, just look at pictures of even fatter people. It might make you feel a little better. If you still can’t solve your problem, talk to your parents or your doctor, they’ll make you feel better.
Take (1) 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper; list things that YOU like to do! 2 or 3 days a week do a different one of those things.
Help other people: hospital; nursing home; church, etc.
Take 2nd 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper; list what is bothering you and pray, asking GOD to help you with each one of those. Except GOD’s gift of Salvation…….
I think that’s an awesome question. In some ways you answered it for yourself…because I’m sure the low self-esteem and the weight are sort of a cycle…one causes the other, round and round.
I don’t know, I think we all have a void, or “soul-hole”, we just have to figure out how to fill it. Some people fill it with God, some with food, some with work…etc.
What are your strengths? What are you good at? Figure it out and explore it to the fullest…then maybe the rest will work itself out.
Good luck.
Eat a healthy diet and get enough exercise, this will help you lose weight. You have to build up your will power though to do this. Be sure you get a decent education too so that you can do all the things in life that you want to.
That happens, maybe if you find the cause for possible eating more than usual you can find a cure for what is causing you to feel sad, becuase the outer is only a symptom of what is going on in the inner, I suffered Low self esteem for years before I gained weight. but I know if no one loves me that there is one who does love me just as I am and he loves you too. and he watches you and loves you too..There is one who would love to see you ruined but this other is over him and he paid for you to be set free from low self esteem so you would be totally whole in spirit and mind and body
well sweetie, first you have to figure out your worth? your worth isnt based on how you look but who u are?
who are u? are u intelligent? educated? do u have a passion(something u can do for hours but feel like minutes)what is it? what is important to you?
you’d be surprised how many “gorgeous” women out there who have low self esteem. look at anna nicole smith. back then she was gorgeous, she gained weight, lost weight…became “gorgeous ” again. she also had lots of money but was on anti depressants.
why did she have such low self esteem?
because she based her worth on ephermeral and tangible things. if u base your worth on things that dont last, your basing ur existance on temporary things that dont last or die easily. DEEEEEEEEEPRESSING!
base your worth on the intangible—wit, intelligence, trust, humility , respect etc…things that last and your esteem will go much higher.
if u work on those things, everything else will follow.
EDIT: also start hanging out with nice supportive people. not ones who keep u down.
Low self esteem comes from viewing your self compared as you compare yourself to others, and what others deemed appropriate or attractive. The truth is….beauty is in the eye of the beholder, when looking at yourself you will notice that the “you” of you…is on the inside. I have met some beautiful people…physically, but then they spoke and I saw and viewed them differently. I have friends that have the most awesome inward beauty…that no matter what they looked like on the outside, I deem them beautiful.
Just remember that when you look into a mirror….it is a reflection “only” it is not you in your entirety. Stop focusing on your outward appearance, and fill yourself full of the things that matter the most in life. What are they?
Honesty, Joy, Temperance, Patience, Virtue and Morals to name a few. Learn about those traits, think on them.
Give to others… Focusing on others and giving of yourself from the parts that “matter”. You could be drop dead gorgeous, and make others look….but, when you turn a corner…your gone and the next image pops into their eyes. But, If you speak kindness and life into others when you round the corner…..they will remember “you”. The feeling you get from helping others…is what your after. Look out at others, rather than at you in the mirror. Make a difference in others lives, and you will change your own. That is what it means when it says “To get…is to give first”
I do not know you or your specifics, but no matter where you are….someone needs to hear the words of hope, and others need encouragement. Some one may physically need your help and up until you….no one helped. The feeling you get when you give of yourself is the way to fill self esteem. Before long… your need to fill the void with food….will be gone. You will not only see a fit person in the mirror…you will see someone you like..that “shines” with an inner light.
Stop by my blog sometime, and keep “encouraged”
Work for a worthwhile cause, and see http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris on page 2 and go to the mental-health-abc & conquering stress sites, and http://www.coolnurse.com/ (.com/self_esteem3.htm) & http://www.moreself-esteem.com/