Fitness Quote by Golda Poretsky

“Health isn’t about being “perfect” with food or exercise or herbs. Health is about balancing those things with your desires. It’s about nourishing your spirit as well as your body.” quote by Golda Poretsky — Download Open image

““Health isn’t about being “perfect” with food or exercise or herbs. Health is about balancing those things with your desires. It’s about nourishing your spirit as well as your body.””

Golda Poretsky

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“Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a “good” body. Your body didn’t do anything wrong. What’s fucked up about your body is not your body at all, but that your body has to live in a society…

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“Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about…

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“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “bad”, and those with “bad” bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have “good” bodies. In the…

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“The moon changes each night but she does so in an understandable rhythm. And just as the tides ebb and flow and the moon waxes and wanes, our bodies’ hormones ebb and flow and our energies wax and wane. Our bodies are more like the rivers than like the rocks, more like the oceans than like machines. The more we…

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“The diet industry has a deep interest in the failure of dieters -- if everyone got skinny, they'd go out of business.”

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“Let's be honest about the "war on obesity." It's a war on people with a particular body type, funded by diet companies.”

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“I’m not saying that you should deny the difficult events of your life. But the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story…

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“I think fitting in is highly overrated. I’d rather just fit out... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that…

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“Don't change your body to get respect from society. Instead let's change society to respect our bodies.”

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“Body acceptance means, as much as possible, approving of and loving your body, despite its “imperfections”, real or perceived. That means accepting that your…

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