OPINION. Our guest editor Laura gives tips to accept yourself as you are

Fit & Healthy Whom my articles read, know that I'm not always so slim have been as it is now. I performed during my teenage years, a battle against the pounds, and had a love-hate liefderelatie with the scale. That battle, I ultimately can win by simply letting go. How to understand? That I explain here.

After a long period of trial & error and different diets and method's, I took a rest for myself, and I started logical, smart choices in terms of nutrition and exercise. As soon as I took rest, I saw finally how my body is, in the positive sense changed. I tell you, therefore, like to share my story, without the emotional aspect to play. I would certainly not start with before and after photos to show of my body. I leave that to the marketingstunts of different method's.

but I want a small piece of writing about the evolution of my self-confidence and acceptance of my body. I used to be heavier, molliger, ‘geblokter’ ... Call it what you want. There are at least different words used for my body to describe. Nevertheless, I was happy and a happy teenager. I had lots of friends around me, and grew up in a warm nest. I had a big mouth and came up for myself as a bully me “thick” called. My weight made me not unhappy, yet I could my body not accepting the way that it was then ‘built’.