Hi guys, my name is Lauren Curtis. I've been on social media since 2011 and since then I've

grown a following of over 7 million people across my platforms and I have learnt a lot along the way.

The Mental Makeover podcast shares real, very honest advice on all things happiness, body image, self-love, relationships, spirituality and reaching your goals.

When I was younger, I could eat whatever I wanted and my body would never look any different.

I was a teenager. That's usually how it goes. Your metabolism's faster and that's when you eat

all the good stuff and you don't even think

twice about it like chocolate a whole family block of chocolate in one sitting fast food anything

that I wanted basically and it wasn't an issue and when I think about it I'm not really sure when it kind of changed and when the

guilt started to come in, I remember people would always say to me, oh yeah, make the most

of being young now because when you get older, your metabolism slows down and you can't

eat the things you used to eat, you know, without having to worry about weight gain

or this or that.

And it was so fear-based.

Like, be careful, enjoy it.

Time's running out.

And it really, really angers me that we're all so obsessed with food in the way that we are.

And I don't even believe that it's our own fault. In fact,

I know it's not our own fault. I know it is external influences and things that are advertised

to us and marketed to us and things we see on TV and people we see in magazines and our relationship with food

only worsens or changes the older we get. And that's the same with the way we see our bodies

and ourselves in general, even our personalities. We only start to second guess them when we're

old enough to be using social

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