“But when I see little girls (or boys for that matter) making food choices from a place completely independent of guilt or conscience or caloric judgement, I just find it kind of beautiful and heartbreaking. When do we lose that freedom and become completely, utterly screwed up?”

I know how naive and totally impractical it is to tell everyone to just embrace their bodies the way little kids do. I mean, are you really going to channel your 3-year-old cousin’s body confidence the next time you try on ill-fitting jeans or see any picture ever printed of Blake Lively? Probably not.

But if you’re still searching for a 2012 resolution (or you’ve burnt out on Master Cleansing), it might be nice to consider a commitment to turning back the mental clock—back to a time before you learned to think anything was wrong with your body. Do you even remember when that was? For me, it was dancing pantsless in my parents’ living room to Madonna’s ‘True Blue’ (pants were basically optional to me until age 7).

Take a second, think of that time in your life, and just remember that you didn’t always feel bad about the way you look. And you don’t always have to.

And maybe get yourself a doughnut.

(via)  REMEMBER WHEN YOU HAD YOUR CAKE, ATE IT AND DIDN’T FEEL BAD ABOUT IT? by Michelle Konstantinovsky