Learn To love yourself

Learning to love ourselves is easy. We have to appreciate ourselves first, have trust and be confident about it. Building trust, appreciation, and confidence for ourselves are one o the main problems of teenagers nowadays. Being insecure about others is a very bad and unhelpful thing for us teenagers. Being insecure leads us to depression. Depression may lead us to the most famous disorder in all teenagers today is the “EATING DISORDER”.

Eating disorder is an abnormal behavior patterns with regard to food, not including simple overindulgence and resulting obesity. Two serious eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia.

Nowadays obesity is a very serious problem affecting almost every teenager in the world. Obesity is being overweight. Increasing calorie consumption and reducing physical activities have played a key role in the prevalence of obesity seen today. In our country and other developed nations, the availability of wider food options has contributed to a change in eating habits. Grocery stores stock their shelves with a greater selection of products. Prepackaged foods, soft drinks, and fast-food restaurants have become more accessible. While such food choices offer convenience, they also tend to be high in fat, sugar, and calories. Obesity can affect digestive, kidney, heart and our breathing. Obese people are more than twice as likely to develop hypertension. The risk of medical complications, particularly heart disease, increases when body fat is distributed around the waist, especially in the abdomen. Symptoms of obesity are headache, chest pains, difficulty of breathing, nausea and etc.

Anorexia nervosa is also one of the problems in our society. Anorexia is a mental illness in which a teenager has an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted perception of their weight and body shape. Teenagers with this illness believe themselves to be fat even when their weight is so low that their health is in danger. A teenager with anorexia nervosa severely restricts food intake and usually becomes extremely thin. And it leads to teenager’s death.

Bulimia is a problem of teenager which persistent over concern with body weight and shape leads to repeated episodes of binging (consuming large amounts of food in a short time) associated with induced vomiting, use of laxatives, fasting, and/or excessive exercise to control weight.

These eating disorders affect every single part of our body. Lack of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals intake could destroy our body cells. These eating disorders affects our Digestive system through having ulcer in our stomach or could explode our hallow stomach muscles via immoderation. If you’re considered as obese, you and your circulatory system could suffer from various kinds of diseases and malfunctioning. Fats could block our veins through heart and leads to heart attack. If you are obese, the blood circulation in your body could hardly function.

We need to love ourselves to conquer these problems. We have to keep in our mind that we need to be ourselves all the time no matter what somebody says, we are what we are and nothing could replace it. In loving ourselves we have to be proud, confident, and happy about us. We should take care of ourselves because we are unique and no one could be like us, “you’re the only one YOU”. YOU shouldn’t be like others who suffer from those disorders, and made themselves suffer a lot unlike you, just enjoying your blessed life.

We, the teenagers have lots of floating dreams in our mind. In each goal that we make and try to fulfill is we need to have a pattern and guidance. I have made an easy 5-step guide on striving hard for our goals. We can use this on anything we need to do and finish.

5 STEPS:

1. GOAL SETTING- we have to set a goal. Know what is your goal for, why do you want to do it, when do you want to finish it. You put in mind that you are doing this for yourself and not for others. Don’t ever set a goal for others.

2. ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL NOW- start to fulfill your goal NOW. Not later, tomorrow or next time but NOW.

3. NO SHORTCUTS- In attaining one’s goal, you cannot do it in an easy way. You can’t skip every challenge to face. No cheating. Make things honestly, clean and tidy to accomplish your goal perfectly without doubts. Do it SLOWLY BUT SURELY.

4. MOTIVATE YOURSELF- Have an inspiration in achieving your goal. Don’t ever, ever, ever quit in the middle of the process. Because SOON you’re half way through fulfilling it, maybe not now, today, tomorrow, but SOON.

5. “BE HAPPY”