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Most of us have a huge inertia when it comes to working out and eating right. \u00a0Even though we have heard millions of times that eating right, sleeping well and shaping up will add one or two decades to your life, and more life to every year, we never got around to doing them. \u00a0There is a simple one minute exercise that will break down your inertia: Get yourself a naked self-portrait!<\/p>\n
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Are you not convinced that you have body image issues? \u00a0Here is a bunch of questionnaires<\/a>\u00a0(not-free) that will help you get a scientific self-calibration (but let me assure you, getting a naked self-portrait is lot cheaper, and easier, than dealing with these questionnaires). \u00a0If you think you weigh too much or too little, you are likely to have a poor body image. \u00a0If you are a perfectionist, guaranteed that your self assessment will be worse than how others assess you. \u00a0If you were out of shape during your formative years, you are likely to be carrying the cross throughout your life.<\/p>\n Feeling bad about your body is not some fancy thing for the pansies. \u00a0It sits in the core of your self-image and dictates everything you do, it is part of our personality. \u00a0For a starter, it dictates what you wear, who you hang out with, the places you go to and the things you do. \u00a0It transforms your life. \u00a0Body image is a much stronger force than we give it credit for. \u00a0Unfortunately, in most of us, it is too subtle a force that it remains under the radar. \u00a0Hence, we go through the life without feeling compelled to do anything about it.<\/p>\n Even more unfortunately, in some of us, the body image misalignment is too strong an urge to ignore. \u00a0These people go great lengths to correct the misalignment.<\/p>\n Whereas we sympathize these people, or call them desperadoes, they consider themselves brave. \u00a0They are right. \u00a0They knew what they wanted, they worked hard for several years to get to it. \u00a0And they wear their designer persona proudly, even though it might open themselves to ridicule, sometime severe ones. \u00a0But this post is not for these brave souls, from Venus or not.<\/p>\n This blog post is for the rest of us, who have lived throughout our lives with this nagging feeling of not having a body that we deserve, a body that we are too shy to reveal, a body that must be covered with clothes in order not make us feel bad, get depressed or wanna fling it over the bridge. \u00a0Muster yourself enough courage just for one minute: Get yourself pictured naked! \u00a0And force yourself to look at it, really look at it.<\/p>\n For most of us, this one minute, no-money, exercise will make you start genuinely looking for ways to fix your body. \u00a0If your inner nag is like that of vast majority of the people (i.e you don’t have issues like sexual self-identify, anorexia, etc.), chances are that you will start to eat right and exercise. \u00a0Or at least, consider it seriously.<\/p>\n That will add 10 to 20 years to your life! \u00a0Not a bad for mustering whee bit of guts isn’t it?<\/p>\n\n