Your beauty should not be an external one... 1 Peter 3:3 ISV



I haven't felt beautiful in a long time. Especially since joining facebook and viewing the pictures of so many gorgeous women. Actually, I used to rate myself as being at least an 8 but these days with so many signs of age and day to day stress my self-rating has gotten lower and lower...

But the problem is that I am too focused on externals. Having a healthy lifestyle is important not killing myself to be thin = beautiful. I could live out the rest of my life and be volumptous and I would have to be content with that. But I can't live the rest of my life, comparing myself to the airbrushed and flawless individuals that mirror society's view of beauty.

I must not let this lifestyle change be a well-cloaked term to mean lose weight = feel great. I have to focus on inner beauty more importantly and I have to develop the habit of loving myself enough to want to take care of my body. The inner transformation will enable the outer.
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