Can I make it explicitly clear to everyone that I am not trying to lose weight. I may post about my body shame, I may post about trying to eat healthy, nutrition, exercise but I am not trying to lose weight. I understand I have not been given a body that matches the contemporary beauty ideal but it breaks my heart that i see so many people advising me on how too lose weight or patting me on the back for trying to lose weight. Why do you want me to change? Even though I am 12 stone, 5ft 1 size 14-16 - none of this is what is making me unhappy. I run, I eat a pale, high fruit/veg diet, I dance and I do yoga, I walk everywhere, I cycle, I dog-walk, I swim, I do resistance. What I want is to be happy in my body - god I do not want to be another skinny try-hard! When people reinforce this, it makes me shameful of my body. It makes me think I have something to be ashamed of.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:41:40 +0000