Why waist your time fretting over your back side? Sure it is wonderful to do a reasonable amount of exercise and stay healthy, but obsessing over it is not healthy and you will not look back on your life and say ‘phew I had a great butt’. No you will remember the fun times and all the experiences you had. So throw away the weight loss books and start living and enjoying your food again.

You will only cause yourself grief and misery if you constantly compare yourself to others. Here is the head’s up, Naomi Campbell, Giselle Bundchen and the like are freaks. You are a real person and so what if you have a couple of dimples on your thighs or your biceps could be more toned?

When you embrace your body, your self esteem will sky rocket and your outlook on life will be much more sunny. And people who feel positive about themselves and life tend to live longer and enjoy the ride that much more. Everybody has something wonderful inside them and something unique and appealing physically too. It will do you great good to begin focusing on those features and forget about the dimples or the thin lips or grey hairs.

OK, so now that you feel a bit better about your body, you have permission to ditch the diet (they don’t work anyway) and start loving food again. Food is one of the greatest pleasures in life. For this articles purposes, fast food and junk food are not counted as ‘food’. We mean real quality stuff.

As well as eating yummy food, cooking for others can be a very pleasurable experience. Why not extend your skills and take some private cooking classes? This is a great way to develop your skills in the kitchen as well as trying new foods and combinations.

In addition you will learn more about nutrition and making healthy, but scrumptious, meals at home rather than reaching for a frozen meal or something laden with grease. Grease might have been the word for John Travolta, but it shouldn’t be for you.

So this is a call to arms to rise up against oppressive celery sticks and rigid gym going and fat measuring. Live a life that is filled with joy and acceptance of yourself and you will probably be healthier and fitter, but definitely happier.