Straight Up Curves

Lil Miss Strong's Tiny Tip #7: Be proud of who you are. Strong is sexy....curves are sexy....you really should be startin to feel sexy.

"To all the girls that think you're ugly because you're not a size 0, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly." - Marilyn Monroe

Photo credit: http://imnotreallyabarista.blogspot.com

Most of our society believes that beauty is what we see in the magazines. Beauty, so people claim, is a woman who wears size 0 jeans and has the waist circumference of a licorice stick. Ever since we were little, we've looked around and seen SKINNY and THIN on billboards, magazine covers and in movies. We all want to be skinny and lose weight because society pressures us....we feel that guys won't think that we're hot, or beautiful...people won't pay attention to us, if we don't look like all the girls we see in the media and if we don't fit society's image of "beautiful". All of the teenage girls and young women reading this right now can probably agree...there is always pressure to be thin and skinny. And since most people aren't, it's easy for girls to fall into the misery trap and feel unattractive...they beat themselves up and put their bodies and themselves through suffering; training too hard, trying diet pills, eating close to nothing. Well...................I have a big butt. I have thick muscular thighs....I work my butt off hard so that I can have biceps and abs and curves. I think that muscular women are beautiful. If guys are considered sexy because they have muscle, why can't girls be too? You deserve to have a goal to work for. You deserve to train hard and wear the results. You deserve to have a good body. You deserve to feel sexy. And guess what? You are.

My job and goal is not to convince everyone that girls should be bench pressing heavy weight in the gym all the time. But, my goal is to make girls, regardless of their body type, age...time in their life...feel strong and confident, and equal with their fitness goals and endeavors. My goal is to help inspire the redefinition of beauty, and to help you realize that being strong is sexy in itself by doing beyond what you think you can do.  Every single girl reading this right now can lift more than she thinks she can...by a lot. She can be confident...muscular...strong (physically and mentally) and inspire other people. She can take action in her life, and make change for the better. Stop debating whether or not you belong in the weight section of the gym. If you want to be healthy...if you want to train for a specific goal...if you want to build strength and have a passion...just do it. Once you actually make that effort to change your body and yourself, you'll realize how much strength you already have.

Part of being strong, muscular and changing your body is not caring about what other people think. Fitness and training is about you being against yourself...you trying to better yourself in every way that you can. It doesn't matter if some guy in the grocery store checks you out and doesn't like the look of your big booty or the fact that you've built up your shoulders. By being confident with your lifestyle choice, and your passion to be strong, lift and stay in shape, you'll attract people who believe in the same thing...in the beauty of curves, the beauty of muscle, and the beauty of being a strong, fit woman.

The only thing not hot about a girl with curves is if she isn't happy with herself. Our world is highly concerned with beauty and appearance...my advice to you is to simply live and do what you love. I'm happy and get to do what I love everyday...I sprint hard, I lift heavy, I push myself to do what the guys next to me in the gym are doing. Those huge guys that you see doing bicep curls in the corner of the gym who look over and smile at you....smile back. Cause girl, he's lifting 55's, you should smile about the fact that you can probably lift 60's.

So...here's to having curls, here's to women having muscle...here's to lifting, lifting heavy, pushing hard, being confident, being fabulous, being strong, and being straight up sexy. 

Get motivated and be fearless.

-Lil Miss Strong