Stay positive about your body while trying to stay in shape.

## Hello, everyone. I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. Our body is one thing we have to be proud of, and we should not join others to dislike our body. There are hundreds of people that will do the hating and the criticising of your body, and you should not be one of them, as that is the only way you come out fighting. Nothing kills you faster than not accepting the body you have; you think about what other people think or what they will say, and you start to live in shame and isolation just to avoid what they would say, and while pleasing them, you are killing yourself.  [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-in-black-and-white-crew-neck-t-shirt-smiling-sPiMBrdGG9c) Body positivity is important because humans are insatiable; when you are slim, they have something to say or complaints to make; when you are fat and chubby, they still have something to say; and when you are just there, not fat and not slim, they ask questions. Why? So why let people who are insatiable determine how you feel about yourself or determine if you are happy about your shape or not? You have to embrace who you are and only make adjustments when you feel it is necessary and not because they said so. Growing up I was excessively slim and the tallest amongst my peers, and I had neighbours and adults in the neighbourhood complain and say it was not natural to be that slim; I must definitely be sick, but I know I wasn't. Now as an adult I don't know where my height disappeared to, and I am no longer that tall and am now starting to get a bit chubby, and I still hear people ask about my height and what happened to it, and I don't even have an answer to that. Now I am starting to get a bit chubby, and their problem now is my height, and that makes it all the more reason to just accept your body as it is and don't let anyone decide how you feel about yourself. Body positivity is important; you have to accept that the body is yours and not theirs. All they can do is talk, and it is left for you to either let what they say fall on deaf ears or get to you to the point where you start to feel left out or unwanted. We are all unique in our own ways, and we should try not to change that because of what the public says.  [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/two-women-sitting-on-sofa-looking-at-each-other-NZtQq9Qp7pU) My answer to this is yes. That point where deep down within you, you feel the need to cut down on some food and junk and engage in exercise, but you keep telling yourself and people around you that you love yourself the way you are, but you feel different inside. When inside you feel the need to change things but still claim to love yourself the way you are, that is when body positivity becomes toxic. You start to deceive yourself and people around you, but deep down you wish to change things; that is when I think body positivity becomes toxic.