Body image
On reading about a friend who is on a mission to lose 13 kilos, 30in2005 tells her own story of weight yo-yo-ing.
I spent the first few months working on my stamina and then as I began to lose the weight I began to obsess. There were a few months in between last year where I was fretting about the actual kilos I lost on a daily basis, weighing myself to the point to obsession, eating ridiculously to change my weight by grams before my next self-imposed weigh in. A few months into this unhealthy obsession I just stopped. Like an a-ha moment, one morning as I climbed the locker room scales it hit me: it’s not the weight I wanted to lose, gram by slow gram. It’s the feeling I wanted to gain, of good health and robust-ness. Of feeling beautiful no matter what I weighed.
This is a great read for anyone who has ever obsessed about their weight. I know I have, and there was a short while when I noted down every calorie consumed and then panicked every time I binged on a pizza/cheesecake etc. I love what 30in2005 says - ” beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and that really, the most important beholder is you.” That’s good advice to live by!
























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