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" I&amp;#039;ve been thinking a lot about those dating horror stories I shared with you on Monday, and about the way we see ourselves versus the way other people see us. For instance \u2013 I&amp;#039;ve been really making a commitment to getting my body back to where it needs to be, so I&amp;#039;ve been working out on a daily basis at the company gym, which of course, means my not-used-to-working-out-every-day muscles are protesting \u2013 vehemently. I was moaning and groaning about it at home the other night, complaining about how my fat cells were screaming as they died a painful death and would be for a long time to come because I was huge. My daughter looked up from her phone and said, &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re not that huge, Mom.&amp;quot; It might sound like a backhanded compliment, You&amp;#039;re not that huge, Mom, but it floored me because I look in the mirror and to me, I am that huge. And then I realized just what I was doing to myself, using a word like huge in such an ugly, descriptive way. Huge should be used to describe your happiness\u2026your boundless love for another person\u2026your pride in your child. It shouldn&amp;#039;t ever be applied to your body, no matter how overweight you think you are. I was reminded of the Dove Real Beauty campaign and the piece they put together on women&amp;#039;s self-image. So I got to thinking\u2026.how about, just for this week, I love myself? How about I talk about myself the way I&amp;#039;d talk about someone I love? I&amp;#039;d never call a friend or a loved one &amp;quot;huge.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m going to talk about myself with love, because I deserve it. When all is said and done, I&amp;#039;m the one who has to live with me for the rest of my life. I might as well do it with love. I&amp;#039;ll let Colbie Caillat sing me out today, because her new video really does say it all:        Do you catch yourself being too hard on yourself? Why is it so hard for us to love ourselves, just as we are? [Follow Ellie at SingleMomtism.com or on Facebook and Twitter] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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