Sunday, January 10, 2021

Goal: to only have to say “I was overweight for 5 years”

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how much I regret my weight gain. I was sucked into HAES after using unhealthy binge/purge cycles to deal with past trauma. I didn’t even realize then that my food issues were a coping mechanism for buried trauma, and HAES offered a “solution”. As a result my husband and I are both not just overweight, but obese. Until this year I refused any kind of intentional weight loss.

While I was feeling sorry for myself and all the time I’ve wasted, though, I had a moment of clarity where I remembered I’m still only in my 20s. I have the rest of my life to get to a healthy weight and stay there!

One day I hope to be able to say, “yeah, I was overweight from 2015 to 2020. But then I changed my habits and got healthy.”

“Losing” 5 years is so much better than never reaching my goal.

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