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7 Harsh Weight Loss Truths to Accept to Make Your Life Easier
#3 Weight loss and weight management is for life
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t aware of my weight. Not only when I was struggling with it, not only when I felt chubby or fat, but even in times when I was at my thinnest. Managing my weight has always been somehow in the focus, or when it wasn’t and I decided not to care about it, I paid the price of it later, when I finally took the courage to step on the scale, terrified of the weight gain.
I have been a chubby teenager and a chubby adult, and even when I slimmed down to thinner than normal, I still felt fat. My body image has never been great, and my life circumstances with an abusive ex-partner didn’t exactly help it either. I have been struggling with accepting myself for who I am, embracing my curves and loving my body. My weight fluctuated a lot throughout my life — mainly because of strict dieting periods alternating with lazy periods — and I have always thought about it as my cross to bear, not a part of life I had to manage.
This year, right before the first wave of the pandemic, I decided to embark on a weight loss journey, to lose weight — this time for good. Even if I started it before knowing we would go into lockdown, when it was there, I considered the pandemic and social isolation an…
