Body Image Influence - How Does Your Body Image Influence Your Food Choices

Does your own body image influence your food choices? Of course it does. So, what is body image exactly - well technically you can refer to body image as the subjective concept of one's physical appearance based on self-observation and the reactions of others. Therefore if you think your unhealthy then you'll most likely eat unhealthy. Let's explore further.

Let's ask ourselves the question - if we looked at our bodies as unhealthy and overweight, do you really think you could continually feed it healthy foods to fuel your unhealthy body? I doubt it. You see body image influences everything we do in life almost, from what we eat to what we wear.

Let's look at body builders for example, do you think they have a negative body image of themselves? No, they look at their bodies as a picture of perfection always trying to improve on it and constantly feeding the right healthy foods to ensure that picture of perfection is constantly improved or at least maintained.

Of course when we talk about your body image in general, most females at least don't have to look at themselves as body builders. Although it won't hurt, most people trying to lose weight permanently need to start with improving their perception of how they look. This is done simply by having a more positive body image, even at they overweight or obese stage.

If you start thinking that you are getting more and more perfect everyday, you'll be more inclined to allow your body image influence the healthy foods you'll eat, to improve, increase and maintain weight loss and your health in general. What you focus on is what you get, simple really.

I started allowing my body image influence what I ate and to this day, have lost over 37 pounds in one year and have kept it off ever since. Click here to find out how you can too.

Alida Camparo is a Weight Loss Coach and uses her expertise and experience of losing over 37 pounds to help others do the same by focusing on the mental side of things to drive permanent physical weight loss. Discover The Revolutionary Weight Loss Method That Helped her and hundreds of others to shed the pounds for good - http://www.bodyimagemastery.org