We often have a terrible relationship with our weight. We’re too fat, too thin, our weights on the wrong part of our body etc. How much does your weight bother you?
Please don’t post your weight, numbers can be triggering for people with a history of disordered eating
Nowadays, it doesn’t really bother me. To be fair, I lost a lot of weight recently, but that only happened when I stopped caring about my weight so much. For a long time I got stuck in a trap of worrying about my weight, which lead me to paying super close attention to what I was eating, which made me pay more attention to the slightest bit of hunger, which made me eat more because it was harder to resist knowing I felt so hungry, which looped around to making me worry about my weight more.
The solution for me was to surround myself with people who didn’t care about my weight, as well as finding a doctor who didn’t hound me about my weight, and only brought it up when I did to say “Yeah, you could certainly afford to lose weight, but you’re already healthy.”
Having so much less anxiety about it was 100% the thing that did it for me. I wouldn’t even say I’m happier because I lost weight. Rather, the other way around. I lost weight because I’m happier.