Thursday, November 21, 2024

Conflicting messages can be genuinely confusing online

So I have been steadily losing weight and am very happy about my progress, feeling better, motivated to keep going. I have not been losing too quickly, about a pound a week.

I am confused on what to think sometimes because I occasionally see posts that are vehemently anti-diet/anti weight loss and these posts seem to assume that all diets are eating disorders, no form of a caloric deficit is sustainable, and people should never try to change their bodies or lose weight under almost any circumstance. As someone who has recovered from an ED and has tried “intuitive eating” before I did not find it sustainable or helpful and it did not educate me or help my relationship with food. People are starting to notice my weight loss which is great, but I am also starting to get comments like “don’t take it too far” and “just eat the cupcake” etc.

Not trying to incite anger from anyone, just genuinely curious…why do people seem to think it has to be one extreme or the other? Why do people assume a person has to be starving themself unhealthily in order to lose? I genuinely feel like when I was “intuitively eating” whatever I wanted and packing on a ton of weight in a short period of time, I was no healthier than when I was overly restricting. My cholesterol went up, libido went down, skin worsened, body hurt, self confidence tanked.

What do you all think?

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