Degrading Woman

In today 's society young people, especially women, are given certain standards and expectations to meet in order to be considered beautiful and worthy not only by others, but also themselves. I had created such a degrading imagine for myself showing that I could only fall under these labels if my collarbones were protruding from my chest, I wore a smaller jean size, I had no excess body fat, and so many other unrealistic features. Luckily, there are people who have the courage to ignore the standards of society and create a different, positive set of expectations and images for themselves. Because of these individuals, fit has or is becoming the new skinny. One of them, who is a very important woman I look up to, has brought me into a life …show more content…
The thought of being able to lose fat without even trying allowed me to get carried away, and I ate and ate and ate so much junk food. I went from the point of being the proudest of myself I had ever been, to one of the most disappointing. I knew I was capable of bettering myself, I just needed the motivation and help along the way. I searched for moral support from my friends and family, read how to lose fat and wrote down notebooks full of exercises hoping that I could recreate myself once again. But one day as I was scrolling through Instagram, I fell upon a picture of a woman who lives a life of fitness, …show more content…
Her muscles are toned and not too large, she has the perfect feminine figure. I had finally found my source of motivation in a woman who has been through a similar situation that I have been in. When she was a younger girl in high school, she was skinny, very skinny. She was not an unhealthy girl, but she just could not gain weight. She made the mistake of only doing cardio when she worked out, which made her lose the only fat she had on her body. But she realized that she was capable of making a change, just like I was. She looked for a solution, not finding any hope in what she could find, until she came across weightlifting. Within two years, she went from being a twig to filling her body out. Her story made me finally realized that I was one hundred and ten percent capable of reaching my goals through hard work and