It doesn’t matter who you are, or how far you’ve come, or how high your self esteem is:

Some days, you’re going to hate your body.

It will be too fat, or too thin, or bloated from that third slice of pizza you knew you shouldn’t have eaten.  It will feel uncomfortable, or bony, or your breasts will feel as though they’re in the way of everything.  Your legs will look out of proportion, and your fingernails will be dirty.  Nothing will fit right.

You won’t fit right.

The kicker is that there’s nothing you’ll be able to do about it – in the short term, anyway.  You’ll vow to work out in the morning, or eat healthier, or hell, just eat. You’ll wear clothes that make you feel confident, even if you really don’t feel confident, and you’ll get on the scale for reassurance…or avoid it because all it will do is make you feel worse.  You’ll do all the right things, but you won’t feel better.

But that’s okay, because you don’t have to.  Not right away.

We all have bad days.  Hell, we have bad weeks, and months, and sometimes we have really bad years.  As long as we keep trying – eating those healthy meals, building lean muscle, saying affirmations – we keep winning: winning the war against the media, and society, and the standards that make us think we’re not good enough.

It’s not about loving your body every day.  That’s just not possible.  What it’s about, what this website and plus size models and body image movements are all about, is acceptance.  We have to learn to accept it all – even the bad days.  If we can do that, we can prove that women really can be and do anything, whether fat or thin or anything in between.  They can even be insecure, or vulnerable…and it’s okay.

Next time you feel like hell, remember that it’s just part of the battle.  Remember that feeling it – accepting it – only means that we are winning.