Miri Swift's Key Ideas from Challenge Accepted!
by Celeste Barber

• You are the boss of your own destiny.
• You are the best, chuck out the rest.
• Don't care about what others think.
• It's your responsibility to look after yourself.
• It's OK to be big, loud, over the top, full on and brave. It's awesome!
• Let the people around you know how much you love them.
• Don't regret having regrets. They are not things you should be ashamed of; they are things that should make you work on decisions you make in the future.
• If you think something is hilarious, laugh.
• Stay grounded. Don't get too big for yourself.
• If it doesn't involve you, don't get involved.

I took a deep breath, pulled myself together and made a decision. I just decided I didn't care. I didn't care to investigate, I didn't care about begging for forgiveness for something that no one was going to help me understand. I realised all people wanted was to make me feel shit, and I didn't care. I had bigger stuff going on. These bitches were the least of my worries.

If people are just constantly being punks to you, then look after yourself, find what you love, get your shit together and get busy.

Ladies, trust yourselves, and if you are too sleep-deprived to even pull your pants up after going to the toilet and you're scared of making any big decisions, then trust someone who loves you. Someone who knows you, not someone who is paid to push an agenda. We are all different.

• Support who you want to support and call bullshit to who you think needs to be called bullshit to.
• Judge someone on their worth, their character, and their merit.
• To be honest is not rude.
• Remind yourself every day that how you look makes up a very small percentage of who you are.
• Give yourself a break.
• Stop valuing people on their appearance and expecting different things from different people judged on the varying degrees of hotness.
• The internet has made the world a smaller place.
• "The talking about the thing isn't the thing. The doing of the thing is the thing."

Feeling healthy and looking a certain way seem to be getting confused with each other. Body Shaming and Healthy Living aren't the same thing. They are different things, completely different ideals, and should be looked at as completely different industries. I'm not against looking good, fit, amazing,small,muscly, whatever throws your hair back. But there is a multibillion-dollar machine supporting this at-times dangerous way of life, and that machine is getting out of control. It gives us made-up advice on our health and how we should or shouldn't look. Enough with the focus on the waistline.