Body Positivity Promotes Bad Behavior
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss body positivity and how it manifests in all areas of our lives. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? What does it mean to be body positive and why is it important to have a healthy relationship with your body?
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so on today's topic we are talking about body positivity
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um so my first question is just a general question
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um do you think body positivity is a good thing yes or no
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starting here and then go around absolutely i think
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body positivity benefits everyone and it's an individual thing that you have
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to cultivate within self and it manifests for other people to
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what do you think i definitely agree and i think that um
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you need to be comfortable within your own body as well
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and if you can be positive and love yourself then
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you can you know accept everybody else as well okay
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um i think it's a good thing maybe in a way um but then
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if you maybe look at the health side then maybe sometimes body positivity
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might not be such a good thing okay so um what do you mean by that
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confident you know you can come in you can come in all sorts of different
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shapes and sizes but if you're at a point where
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then you have to bear that in mind that's the subject that also needs to
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be incorporated into that okay what do you think um i think the word
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body positivity can be used quite loosely um i think there's a lot behind it i
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think it's really about becoming a better version of yourself
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so i i do believe in it and i believe it's important
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uh the self-love okay body positivity a good thing
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well i mean when i look at body positivity i just see a bunch of marketing
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directors getting together and be like how can we trick people into over
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i'm a big proponent of having good mental health
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and i think that you can't have good mental health
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if you're sitting around thinking of yourself in a negative way
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and definitely in regards to your body right you can't sit
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there all day looking in the mirror and being like i'm disgusting
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i'm this i'm that because that's just going to wreak havoc on your
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psychological health however i also do believe that
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it is up to us individuals because there are certain biological components of
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life that are irrefutably true in regards to maintaining a healthy body
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everybody should strive to be as best as possible
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a life of self-improvement and being physically fit
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is one of many components of that but i don't think
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i think the body positivity thing is not this nice thing that they're putting
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it out to be i think there's a nefarious agenda behind it
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which is just like yeah over consume yeah you can do whatever you want
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this kind of yolo lifestyle but people are starting to wake up to the fact that
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like especially with the recent you know situation that happened in 2020 that we
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can't even talk about without getting trouble here on youtube
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but i think a lot of people became more health conscious about that
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at that time so i think you know these corporations
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corporations and governments they never have your best interests at heart
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it's always in the in their interest and their interest is more power and more
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positivity like i get it you shouldn't hate yourself
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like and men have body positivity issues like men men women they both look at
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the mirror like they want to be better than they are
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and it's a struggle as a human but i do think that
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overall the body positivity movement i think on the surface level
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it looks good but i think behind it it's not what they're saying it is
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that's my short answer the subject body positivity is actually
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really personal to me because i'm someone who i always like to treat
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people nicely and i treat people well and my size unfortunately always like
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people would just be rude to me or disrespect me
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i am 21 stones now the biggest i've been is 28 stones
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and um i've had loads of like things happen to me in my life
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so body positivity for me is just accepting the way you look
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the way the way we were made and that's how i see
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body positivity now people have different definitions
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some people think body positivity is changing your body
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um which is fine changing your body but some people think that
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then like basically they express how they're unhappy with their body which is
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by changing their bodies but for me it's just really
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literally accepting yourself looking yourself in the mirror and saying this is
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who i am this is how i've been made this is how people have seen me
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my whole life and if they've been seeing me my whole life like this
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i should just accept me and um yeah i'm body positive
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okay so i'm just raise of hands overall body positivity good thing raise your hand
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overall good thing like more good than bad okay that's what i
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and she's like half okay okay so i i think body positivity is a horrible thing
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and i i don't think it's a good thing for society
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um so i want to know why you guys disagree with that
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because personally i just i just don't think i don't think we would put a
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a crack addict on the cover of a magazine and in the united states
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obesity is the number one killer and i just don't think it's a good thing
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that we are normalizing bad habits that's my opinion on it
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it's number one killer of pets too you know that no way
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yep it's the number one reason animals die in america is from
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well i think um i get i see where you're coming from i really do
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and it's sad and with most things everything does become about
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money for example i'll give you a perfect example
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plus size women's it's booming all the ever all the plus size influences are
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they're being invested in but with plus size men
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there's been clothes that are being sold for big men
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but the models are small so again for i have a friend who did that where she like
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they put on made her wear like a fat fat suit where she was actually smaller
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and they made her bigger yeah they do so for that reason yeah i see exactly
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where pearl is coming from because it upsets me that
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it is it has become a money-making thing a kind of a trend to kind of get get in
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the views and getting that but for people who actually have had issues
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and with me honestly i will share my story one day but i can't share it
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like until i reach my goals and and i i want to do and i think what he is saying
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is spot on like they're ready to roll out the red carpet for women
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yeah but it really it kind of again goes back to like that kind of nefarious
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agenda of making money yeah you know because they're catering to women
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because like who can name some uh plus size models right now like
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can any of you name a male plus size model my friend james corbin he's a
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supermodel but james corbin is not exclusively known for being an
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oversized no yes yes he's been invoked no no no no no
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but he's known mainly for being a talk show host
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no james corbin is a corby james if it's james corby corby james but
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oh he's he's a plus size model he's from london
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and he's someone who just um wait because he's a plus size are you talking
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about the talk show host james corbin the guy who was in the flight scandal
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corden so basically there's a plus that's my mistake then
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so basically there's a plus size model from the uk called james corbyn
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and he talks about body positivity and um he's making a difference for the plus
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size community and he's not promoting obesity i don't promote obesity
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i tell people try and stick to natural foods because you may be big
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but at least if you're big you're gonna have goodness in you you're gonna have
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people's bodies are just the way they are pearl you don't know girl
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i i juice i even have a ninja creamy like i make my own lime grapes like all
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that doesn't make sense to me like i i think if you did like a training plan
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but i i really i really do like i think you would so um
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that's the thing because i have medical issues as well i can't really openly
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speak about but i have stuff like gout flares up that
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flares my hands up and all that so there's always an obstacle that comes
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in front but all my life i've battled i've always said good food
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and get out exercise never be that reason don't ever let anyone give you
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because that's the stereotype that the world has
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of plus size people i think there's something that we're not addressing here
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and it's that obesity and being plus size but really it's obesity
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it's a clinical term it is what it is it's a symptom of something else
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though i agree with you if i were to work out with you or with a personal
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trainer i absolutely could lose the weight and so could
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most other people but obesity is a symptom of something else she's right nine
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times out of ten yes yes yes yes you can't get someone in the gym
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put them on a three-month training program and say lose this weight
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even if they do lose it what's to stop them from putting it back
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no i'm saying shouldn't we fix that problem then so if it's emotional let's figure out
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what it is and fix it and promote that instead of obesity on the cover of
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magazines she's she's spot on and the number one way that people cope with
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anxiety is by eating yeah exactly you know you eat too much so yeah
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and you're you're a thousand percent correct that goes back to like you know
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your subconscious uh mind and how you perceive yourself
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because a lot of these people too adding to what you said
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they will lose the weight they'll lose like 100 pounds 200 pounds 150 pounds
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but the subconscious version of themselves in their mind is not that
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skinny healthy person and they'll self-sabotage back up
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to that weight so what she's saying is a thousand percent
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correct it's not that i mean i think i'm people and i'm from america but
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and so like in america i think that the american people are grossly
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undereducated on the foundational principles of
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having a diet carbs proteins fats they don't even know that those are the
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three different calorie source and then alcohol if you want to add that
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but and they don't know about having high protein diet and managing your
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calories and all that stuff but in addition to that right because
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we grew up in america thinking like cereal was a healthy thing to eat as a
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right yeah now i only eat that if i smoke weed in miami