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It's Time to STOP the Shame Game!

 How many times have you uttered one of these comments: "I look so fat in this." "These jeans would look so much better if I could just shrink my thighs a bit." "Ugh, I look so bloated today." "Now that I'm in my 40's, I guess style just isn't for me anymore." "Maybe I will buy new clothes when I lose weight." If you have found yourself thinking or saying any of these things out loud, I'm talking to you today. As a woman who is in her late 40's myself, I have had a realization: If I want my body to be perfect, I'm going to be on the hamster wheel forever. It's chasing an ideal that doesn't exist in reality. So, that means that I will be waiting to make a change, improve my style, buy the clothes (and the list goes on) for, well, forever. Unfortunately as women, society has not been kind to us. Media leads us to believe that the perfect looking young toned bodies on the covers of magazines are the norm and...