As an eating disorder therapist, I frequently encounter a dilemma voiced by my clients: “I want to recover but I also want to lose the weight. Do I have to give up being skinny to work with you? I don’t want to accept myself in this body. I cannot be happy in this body.
This is a really great post about the challenges on the topic of weight and weight loss, and of course recovery too. It’s about food and weight, but as you so beautifully write, it’s also about so much more than that.
I'm doing a sport, where being a lot thinner than my body is made for, brings a lot of advantages.
People wouldn't like to train with me if I was heavier. They would still like me, no question here, but Training partners would be rare and that hurts. And my whole Social circle evolves around this sport.
And on my case it is not about dreaming of a body. I've got a body as well suited for my sport as it will get. I know how awful it Fels and any "improvement" would make me feel more exhausted.
But I don't want to give up all my people and the joy of my Sports which is such a central Party in my life.
This is a really great post about the challenges on the topic of weight and weight loss, and of course recovery too. It’s about food and weight, but as you so beautifully write, it’s also about so much more than that.
But what if ...
it is really about the weight itself?
I'm doing a sport, where being a lot thinner than my body is made for, brings a lot of advantages.
People wouldn't like to train with me if I was heavier. They would still like me, no question here, but Training partners would be rare and that hurts. And my whole Social circle evolves around this sport.
And on my case it is not about dreaming of a body. I've got a body as well suited for my sport as it will get. I know how awful it Fels and any "improvement" would make me feel more exhausted.
But I don't want to give up all my people and the joy of my Sports which is such a central Party in my life.