Change The Way You See – Not The Way You Look!
Tips for a Healthier, More Positive Lifestyle from Operation Beautiful:
Stopping Fat Talk and Body Acceptance:
- NEW You are More (© of Selah)
- NEW Zumba: My Healthy Fitness (© of Mackenzie)
- Letting Go Of My Negativity (© of Jennifer)
- Don’t Say Something to Yourself that You Wouldn’t Say to a Friend (© of Therese)
- What Does It Mean to Have Healthy Body Image? (© of Food For Thought)
- Teenage Girls and Body Image (© of Food for Thought)
- Self-Discovery to Improve Self-Esteem (© of Tracy)
- How Do I Look? (© of Anywhere There’s an Airport)
- My Health Journey: Body, Mind, and Soul (© of Parita)
- How To Become Fat Talk Free
- Why Fat Talk Rears It’s Ugly Head When You’re Stressed
- How To Look On The Brightside
- 20 Ways to Love Your Body (© of NEDA)
- Not Limited to One Size or Shape (© of Megan)
- Who Says? (© of Heather)
- Dear Society (© of Mackenzie)
- She’s Not “Fat,” She’s Your Sister (© of the Well Read Hostess)
- What’s in a Picture? Not the Whole Story (© of Heather)
- What is Beauty? (© of Lauren)
- I’m Not Perfect But That’s OK (© of Amanda)
- Face Your “Flaws” (© of Meredith)
- More Love for the “Flaws” (© of Ashleigh)
- No More Self-Doubt: Just Bloom (© of Kelsey)
- Learn to Love Your Body Regardless of Size (© of Mara)
- What if I Stopped Comparing Myself to Others? (© of Mara)
- Sing It: Glee’s Message of Confidence (© of Running with Sass)
Bullying:
- Dealing with Bipolar Disorder Beautifully (© of Emily)
- Enough Happiness to Go Around (© of Heather)
- A Tale of Middle School Bullying (© of Anne)
Pregnancy:
- The Size of Your Heart, Not the Size of Your Clothes (© of Stephanie)
Attitude
Healthy Diet and Exercise:
- NEW 5 Ways to Elevate Your Mood (© of Roopa)
- Yoga Love (© of Kate)
- No Pressure: Body Image and Weight Loss (© of Julie)
- Why You Should Stop “Dieting” and What To Instead
- Superwoman Syndrome: The Dangers of Overtraining (© of Oh She Glows)
Eating Disorders:
- You Are Worth It (© of Joy)
- What To Do If You Have Distorted Eyeballs (© of Alex)
- NEDA Week Survivor Stories: Monday’s Stories, Tuesday’s Stories, Wednesday’s Stories, Thursday’s Stories, Friday’s Stories, and Saturday’s Stories.
- Create Your Own Standard of Beauty (© of Cristina)
- A Resolution: Love Your Body (© of Shannon)
- How to Talk to a Friend Who May Have an Eating Disorder (© of NEDA)
- Learn more the symptoms and warning signs of Bulimia, Anorexia, and Binge Eating Disorder (© of NEDA)
- How I Overcome Binge Eating (© of Oh She Glows)
- Binge Eating: While You Shouldn’t Feel Ashamed (© of Oh She Glows)
The Media:
- NEW Beauty, Redefined (© Lexie)
- NEW Beauty… and the Billboard (© of Jamie)
- How to be a Critical Viewer of the Media (© of NEDA)
- Magazines vs. Reality (© of Oh She Glows)
Change The Way You See, Not The Way You Look Week Guest Posts:
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Im 14 and not overwieight but i still feel self consious bout about body.. ive said to always been the pretty one who gets all the guys but i dont think im pretty or worthy or skinny.. ive always neveer liked the way i looked.. today i was on facebook and i saw my friend post something and i looked at it and it was a video about operation beautiful.. let me say it has helped reading and putting in my head i am beautiful i am worthy..
If someone teases you, and says you’re ugly, maybe it’s because they’re feeling the same way about themselves; most bullies only emerge from jealousy.
Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes; for some, it’s on their face; for others, it’s in their behavior; remember to always look for it in both places, because it’s there!
I found this comment thanks to the Idea Finder on Day Zero Project and it’s so perfect! I have tons of colorful sticky notes, so I just need to stick one in my bag and go with it! lol. Thank you so much for this. Definitely telling all my friends.
It may sound crazy but I am 12 years old and I am a bulimic. I came here and I am now on my way to overcoming this disorder and stepping out into the world again! Thank you!!
Hey Maya,
I’m 13 and I think I’m really fat. But what I never realized is that all of the popular girls are jealous of me, even when I’m jealous of them.
P.S. YOU GO GIRL!!
God Bless,
Laurie
Thanks for your comment! The sad things I knew that they were just jealous and I still believed them! I am afraid to say that the bullying is worse, but I am not at least starving! God bless you to!
Maya
How did you overcome being bullimic? It’s a lot harder for me, but i want to stop. I need advice
Do you have a therapist or counselor you can talk to?
Well, I am still in the process, but I finally round up the courage to tell my mom, and she monitors everything I eat. Unfortunately, your body can’t tell what a normal amount of food is after you eat normally gain, but the first step is telling someone!
At school I started a Operation beautiful club
and It is changing everthing around me . this world is BEAUTIFUL and so is everyone in it
I love this website! I found out about it when one day at school I was going to the bathroom. I walked to the mirror and saw a post-it note. I read it, and it was an inspiring note and said operationbeautiful.com on the bottom. I want to keep this up, I think I am going to start doing this everyday at my school, and leave them everywhere! Not just on bathroom mirrors, but everywhere! It really helped me see that I am beautiful. I am 14, an average weight and I just always thought I was so fat. Because I compare myself to my friends all the time! And I used to always think oh your too ugly he probably won’t like you! But now that i have seen Operation Beautiful I see that I am not and that everyone has beauty! Thank you so much!
Friday, I saw a post-it note in my school’s bathroom about Operation Beautiful. Other girls told the teachers and the teachers threw them away. I actually thought it was cool. I came to this website and now I look differently at myself. Thank you!
well, i’m 14 years old . and i don’t feel beautiful . or skinny enough .
i found this website , and every day i just feel myself getting a little closer to believing that i am beautiful . dont worry girls . your all perfect just the way you are . i promise(:
Hi!
I went out and bought heart post-it notes and sharpie the other day, then walked around writing inspirational notes, and sticking them everywhere in Wal-Mart. It absolutely made me feel amazing that I could be helping someones day. And, I plan to do it everywhere I go.
I just wanna say, that this is an amazing idea. Thank you for coming up with it.
–Michelle H.(:
im only in sixth grade, and i used to see these around my school bathrooms and they always made my day. i even posted a few! but now i dont see them anymore, which makes me sad. its important that everyone knows that they are beautiful. i am going to start posting them again, and if people take them down, i’ll just put them up again! i wish i knew who posted them at my school, because i’d like to thank them for encouraging me to go to this website. i wish they could know that they made someone feel really good.
i am 12 years old and today i was having a bad day, i often dont eat and i have made myself throw up before, the inly person who knows how much i hate myself is my 2 best friends. i look at these notes and i feel good aout myself
thanks operation beautiful
xoxo
Honestly, I know how you feel. When I was only 11 I hated myself and everything I stood for. I gagged myself constantly to remove the meals I had eaten to make myself “beautiful” I can say I wasnt anymore beautiful than the filth I flushed down the toilet. Be strong, for even if it doesnt look like it, there IS a light at the end of the tunnel
thanks abigail, its sad to hear u were only 11, i honestly feel like things are getting better, i hope the same for you
i’m 13,and lately i’m feeling really bad about myself:( i usually just go to school and then come home and stay home,on the weekends i dont go out with my friends because they all have boyfriends and iam single,so i feel like the odd one out. i know im only young, but i need someone to show me i’m not worthless. and seeing these inspirational little notes is beautiful, in the UK,you dont see these alot..but i think i might start putting them up..
thankyou so much,
Hannah xxxx
Last year, my friends and I had the idea of buying a lot of post it notes, writting inspiring quotes on them and putting them in the bathrooms at school. And so we did for about a month, we would write quotes on he post its during math and in lunch we would tape them all over the bathrooms. I didn’t know that something similar to what we did existed until today, seeing this wonderful site (:
Great website. C:
My mother was the only one who told me how beautiful I was. My mother died a few months ago. Everyday I struggle with the question every girl asks herself. Am I really beautiful? I know that I am in my head, but in my heart I cannot say I feel anything but horrid, discusting, and ugly. I feel that with the stereotypical “woman” who are slapped up on billboards, us young women have nowhere to turn but to the models who shamelessly place thier plastic bodies for all of the young, insecure women and teens who strive to feel beautiful. This post-it notes idea is one of the greatest Ive heard in a long time. It is a subtle but beautiful way yo catch us in our busy day to stop and think about our reflection, but with an optomistic view. Thank You to everuone who is fighting against the norm to be perfect!
I completely agree with you Abigail. Society is part to blame for giving girls and woman an idea of what beautiful is and if you don’t look like this them you will be alone or unwanted. I to have self esteem issues and I used to just ignore them so I wouldn’t have to deal with it but all that does is just build up. This year I am determined to make things different
I don’t know how but hopefully I will find a way
I used to hate the way I look. But one day I saw this video on YouTube, and it literally saved me. I was feeling so bad about myself and my writing, that I just wanted to quit and never talk to anyone again and just curl up in a corner and cry. Then my friend sent me a link to the video. It wasn’t an operation beautiful one, but it still brought tears to my eyes. I went to the mall the next day and saw one of these sticky notes. If I hadn’t of watched the video, I probably would have kept my head down, and not have even noticed it, but I did and it made me start to except myself. To this day I still haven’t found that video, but that’s alright; it came to me at the right time, and I will always think of it. So, this is why I want to try to participate in this as much as I can. Maybe just one note could remind people that no matter what there race, skin colour, sexual preference, or religion is, THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL!
beauty comes from the heart ,you ARE beautiful nomatter what
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i agree!!!
Beauty comes from the inside not the outside. I have been overweight almost my entire life. I have been put down by so many people, people I don’t even know. What hurts the worst is when it comes from someone that should love you and lift you up not hate what you are and put you down. My father has said on more than one occasion that I am fat, that I would be pretty if I just lost weight, and that no one will ever love me because I am a fat slob. For a long time I believed him. After years and years of putting myself down because I wasn’t good enough for him which automaticly made me assume that I wasn’t good enough for anybody I finally realized that I have so many wonderful people in my life that love me for who I am inside and out. It was only just recently that I came to discover that I don’t need to please anybody else but myself. If I am happy whith who I am It shouldn’t matter what other people think! I still have problems with the way I percieve myself offten. I know that someone out there loves me for who I am though, And I am here to tell all of you that someone out there loves you for who you are! Don’t let the world get you down because you are all beautiful people, who are here for a reason! God bless – Brianna
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