What Your Ideal Body "Should" Be

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

If you struggle with society's expectations for what a woman's body "should" look like, I feel you. I used to think my body should be perfect. I thought my body should have zero cellulite.

I thought it should have zero fat. I thought I needed to have a thigh gap and six-pack, and that every muscle needed to be perfectly defined.

But let me tell you, sister, this is NOT a body you should be striving to achieve. And in this episode of Embrace Your Real, I explain why and dive into what your body "should" actually be!

If you loved this episode, you will also love…

Episode 58: 5 Reasons Why Having the "Perfect Body" is Not What You Think

And be sure to follow the podcast on the 'gram, @embraceyourreal, for daily real talk from me!

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0:00.0	Hey, hey beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick.
0:07.5	You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Rail with me, Julie Labbetter.
0:12.3	I'm about to give you a quick tip for building your comments. of Embrace Your Rail with me Julie Better.
0:12.7	I'm about to give you a quick tip
0:14.2	for building your confidence, honoring your body,
0:16.4	and unconditionally loving your authentic self.
0:19.3	Stay tuned if you're ready to Embrace A Real.
0:21.7	Let's get it, let's go.
0:38.8	Hello and welcome. Hello and welcome back to another bonus episode. Today we're getting real and raw on the Embrace Real Podcast and I'm so grateful that you are here spending some time with me today wherever you are in this beautiful world
0:45.4	Whether you're walking your walking your walking your walking out your driving
0:49.1	Thank you for showing up to prioritize yourself to become the best possible version of yourself to serve
0:54.8	others in your best capacity. I used to think that my body needed to be perfect. I used to
1:00.6	strive to have zero cellulite and zero fat a thigh gap and I thought that every muscle needed to be perfectly defined.
1:08.4	So what I did was I starved myself, I cut out entire food groups, I worked out every day with the hashtag no days off mentality.
1:16.7	I spent hours a day doing cardio. I skipped out on events where I would have to eat food.
1:22.6	Workouts were priority above everything else.
1:26.2	And finally, when I realized what I was doing
1:30.7	was forcing my body. I was forcing my body to have a thigh gap or a six-pack. I was forcing it to be
1:37.6	something that it wasn't just because I thought that's what it should be. This is exactly what I want to dive into in
1:44.8	today's bonus episode but before we dive in I have to share this super sweet review of the
1:48.7	day. It says Omaha Nebraska listener inspired Julie you inspired me with your story after competing in shows,
1:55.4	I was stuck in the mindset that being the skinniest was so important, to the point where it made me so unhappy.
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