How to Feel Good About Your Body at Any Age or Weight

By Lauren Rose Correa, August 27, 2025

How to Feel Good About Your Body: Smiling Woman

Do you feel like you have a positive self-image, or do you wish you knew how to feel good about your body? When I was younger, I had a good body image, and I often got compliments on my figure. I always had an hourglass shape that got me noticed (sometimes I wished it wouldn’t be noticed). As I’ve gotten older and had kids, I’ve definitely lost a bit of the shape I used to have. With my first pregnancy, I put on a lot of weight. I lost about fifty pounds afterward by counting calories and walking plenty of steps.

But even when I got my weight back down, my body had experienced a lot of changes. I have a “mom belly” thanks to the ab separation I had during pregnancy. I also have some stretch marks, despite applying stretch marks lotion religiously. Now I’m pregnant again, and will probably put some weight back on, but I’m happy that I know how to successfully lose weight. I’m confident I can get back to my normal weight again after I give birth.

My body isn’t perfect, and it will probably never look exactly as it did when I was young. But I still have the same positive body image that I had before all these changes. Even at my heaviest weight, I still loved and appreciated my body. I think having a healthy body image and loving yourself is so important. Being able to accept your appearance can give you confidence, self-esteem, and inner peace.

How to Feel Good About Your Body

How do you keep a positive body image? What is the secret to loving your body, even when you aren’t thrilled with how it looks? Here are some ways of thinking that I have embraced that help me stay positive about my physical appearance.

Appreciate what your body has done for you, not just what it looks like.

Your body is so much more than just what it looks like. Do you have a healthy, correctly functioning body? Has your body has given you children? Can you walk or run or exercise? If your answer is yes to any of these things, you are blessed! Don’t focus solely on appearances. Think about what your body has given you, and thank God for those things.

There is nothing wrong with fitness and losing weight, but you have to be able to love your body at its worst and at its best.

When I put on weight with my first baby, my confidence did waver a bit. It was hard being overweight when I was used to having a thin figure. It was also honestly a little physically uncomfortable carrying extra weight on me. I always intended to lose the weight after giving birth, and I think that there’s nothing wrong with wanting to lose weight. But you can’t only love your body when you are at your ideal weight. You need to love your body through every change you go through. I think I actually was motivated to lose the weight because I cared for my body and wanted it to be at its healthiest.

Beauty is valuable, but it isn’t everything. Think about where your focus lies.

“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.” – 1 Peter 3:3-4 NIV

Beauty is an amazing thing. God created beauty, and I don’t think there is something wrong or bad about it. If you have physical beauty, you should enjoy it and praise God for creating it. However, our physical beauty shouldn’t be our main focus. There’s nothing wrong with taking care of yourself, wearing makeup, or getting dressed up. But if beauty has become your focus, you are setting yourself up for a struggle. As we grow older and our physical beauty fades, we will become unhappy if that was all we cared about. Focus more on inner beauty that doesn’t fade. This will allow you to embrace aging with grace.

How to Feel Good About Your Body: Making the Change

If you start thinking differently about beauty and about your body, you can really have a different outlook. I hope that this post helps you to implement new ways of thinking that can improve the way you see yourself and your appearance.