Our Philosophy
CurvyStrength deviates from the norm found in the fitness industry. It’s a you-centric approach that considers your whole person. The primary goal is not weight loss. Or abs. Or anything physical, really. Rather, it’s a focus on your relationships with food, movement and yourself. It’s about feeling your best from the inside out.
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THE PROBLEM
1) Our Culture Opposes Body Diversity
A narrow view of beauty and a heavy dose of societal pressure combine to fuel a sense of inadequacy. Acceptance, love, worthiness… these things come only after you conform to the acceptable standard of beauty. If you don’t look the part, you’ve got work to do… and it usually starts with dieting.
3) Desperation Fuels Self-Hate
Your biological drive for acceptance compels you to take drastic action. Fully aware of this, the diet industry sells flash and rigidity with carefully crafted promises to separate you from your money. You wind up using brute force and deprivation to bully your body into being something it’s not.
5) The More you Fail, The Harder You Push
With your relationship with yourself slipping into a pit of despair and self-loathing, you only see one answer. Push harder. Beat yourself up some more. Starve yourself. Get stricter. You truly start believing that everything will be better after you lose weight and look the part and you sacrifice everything – from your happiness to your health – to make it happen.
2) You Have a Biological Drive for Acceptance
At your core, you’re a pack animal. It’s baked into the human condition. Without social acceptance, early humans would’ve died. We lived in groups. Hunted in groups. And moved in groups. To be ostrocized meant certain doom. This magnifies your drive toward fitting the superficial mold.
4) Unsustainable Methods Ruin Self-Credibility
This self-bullying can’t last for long. You white-knuckle the deprivation for as long as you can. Eventually you cave. Each failure compounds your lack of faith in yourself. Before long you actually loathe yourself. You say you want to lose weight but no matter how hard you try you can’t get yourself to stick with it.
6) Weight Becomes the Essence of Your Life
At a certain point, the only thing you see is the number on the scale. You avoid social situations because you fear “screwing up.” You’re in a constant shame storm as you feel unworthy of love and social acceptance. You literally forget what it was like before your body and weight obsession. This is simply who you are now. This is the way it’s going to be forever. You’re a dieter.
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THE SOLUTION
1) Ditch the "Fix Me" Mentality
You’re not broken. As much as the diet industry wants you to believe it… you’re not. If you choose to accept that you are, you’re going to continue falling for the same industry manipulations. Think of it like this. There will only ever be one YOU. In all of history… just one you. It’s time you start acting it. You can accept/love yourself while also having a desire to improve.
3) Embrace Vulnerability
You’ve held yourself to one standard for so long – be skinny. You likely believe this is the only thing that matters. It’s scary to let go of the need to control your body, but that’s exactly what you need to escape – Diet Prison. There are better standards by which you can gauge success that you will learn.
5) Think Additively Rather Than Subtractively
It’s all about rules in the diet industry. You can’t have this and you can’t do that. Rather than focusing on have to’s, start focusing on get to’s. For example, all movement counts. And any movement is a gift for your body. You don’t have to kill yourself with a military grade workout in order to feel a lot better.
2) Turn Within for the Solutions
Humans are adaptation machines. You already have everything you need to become who you want to be. You’re fully equipped with the ability to acquire new skills and develop new habits. Rather than “fixing” yourself, leaning into the concept of becoming unlocks lasting change. And this change isn’t coming from a place of coersion. It’s coming from a place of love.
4) Change the Way that You Speak to Yourself
It’s estimated that you have over 50,000 thoughts that run through your mind each and every day. It’s also believed that the vast majority of them are negative. It’s hard to feel great when your own mind is working against you. Developing the skills of self-awareness and self-talk management unlocks your potential.
6) Embrace the Art of Becoming
Identity rules all. If you identify as someone who diets, you’re always going to be someone who diets. But if you shift your identity to being someone who takes care of yourself, you’re going to start taking care of yourself. When this happens, you’re not going to have to diet.
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