Ep 39: Health Is Not A Look, I's A Lifestyle

Run, Selfie, Repeat

Kelly Roberts

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Here’s the thing about the body positivity movement, learning to love the skin you’re in and where you’re at today is Step 1. Because if you can’t look in the mirror and see how beautiful you really are today, you'll never be happy. Building a positive body image takes time.

But here’s Step 2, you can’t just tell yourself you love where you’re at, you have to love yourself enough to fight for a healthier and stronger tomorrow. That means making a conscious effort to fuel your body with the proper portion sizes of healthy foods. Or finding ways to get active that don't feel like torture.

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0:00.0	That's my attempt at, uh, uh, never mind. Hey everybody. Welcome to episode 39 of the Run, Selfie
0:11.4	Repeat podcast where we talk about life with a side of running. I am your lady pal, Kelly Roberts, and today,
0:17.3	today I am going to try to stay calm, calm and cool and collected, because I need to talk
0:25.8	about the fact that health is not a look. It's a lifestyle. Oh, God. Rage, rage, rage,
0:33.4	so Monday night, I think it was Monday night. Maybe it was Tuesday. No, today's Tuesday. What day is it?
0:38.9	I don't know what day it is. Uh, a little bit of go with Monday. Monday night. I was lying in my bed,
0:47.8	getting ready to, you know, fall asleep. And I was scrolling through Twitter when I saw a tweet from Shape magazine
0:55.7	that read, Miley Cyrus's flat stomach secret. And I just found myself exhaling an expletive.
1:10.0	And I felt really frustrated because I get it. Healthy doesn't sell as well as
1:15.8	get Miley Cyrus's flat stomach. But after 17 years of struggling to embrace my body for what it's
1:23.7	capable of instead of feeling devastated that I didn't have a flat stomach or because I didn't
1:28.6	look like a pop star, I have a very serious problem with the lack of health being promoted in the
1:34.5	health and fitness industry. Do you remember when that girl, that blonde girl made that YouTube video
1:41.2	called Dear Fat People a few years back.
1:49.0	All right, let me refresh your memory on some of this, some of this garbage.
1:50.7	Dear Fat People.
1:53.2	Ah, some people are already really mad at this video.
1:54.3	What are you going to do, fat people?
1:54.9	What are you going to do?
1:56.1	What are you going to do?
1:58.5	Fat shaming is not a thing.
1:59.7	Fat people made that up.
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