“I’m on a diet. I think I’m overweight. Oh, I’m so ugly! I gotta do something about this… I won’t eat anymore!” Sound familiar? How many friends do you have who are in agony because they think they’re ugly, fat, or not too good for others? I have a lot. I actually don’t know how I stand their woes and complaints when in fact, I should be the one complaining about my body weight. Por diyos por santo (for god’s sake), I am really fat but I’m happy and although at times, I feel dissapointed that those clothes won’t fit, I never believed I’m ugly and so do my good friends.

In many cases, the problem is not our body weight or our physical look but our self-concept,
the way or how we look at ourselves. Let me cite scenarios.
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