![]() ![]() Yaya and I have been travelling lots over the last year, visiting some exciting new places, with lots of new dishes and sweet treats to try. The first I wanted to establish was the casual factor for my weight gain, which in my case was easy. I know there is a lot, if not much more, of societal pressure on ladies so this is why I wanted to share my own perspective on how body image affects us all – ladies and gents. Any pressure to have a certain body type is ultimately unhealthy. I genuinely think that being healthy and happy (regardless of weight) is paramount – but I equally know how down my personal weight gain was affecting my confidence. I know the “ideals” that society puts on people to have a certain body type – which, I totally disagree with. ![]() I know weight gain is a super “hot topic” to discuss and I’m not advocating weight loss as a means to feel better about yourself, far from – but I do know that my personal weight gain made me feel different (and not in the most positive way) and that is what I wanted to change. I even retrospectively began to notice so many pictures of myself eating delicious treats… arghhhh! □ (I think this observation was a symptom of me becoming more conscious about my weight but how had I not noticed!?!) I’m not sure if everyone is the same? Yes, I have those quick burst conversations that usually go “ Arghhh, I need to lose some weight”, but in reality, my true feelings around weight gain were very personal that would linger in the back of my mind. For me, weight gain is such a personal thing – its generally something I don’t tend to talk about and often seems like an isolating experience. Once I was able to acknowledge that I was gaining weight I realised I had lots of anxious feelings around my body shape, which I believe was a symptom of my weight gain… I tried to make a joke out of it, but in reality my weight gain made me feel much more self conscious and even started to make me feel down which, by the way, is saying a lot as regardless of what weight I’ve been in the past, I’m typically quite body-confident). ![]() It wasn’t so much the fact that I put on weight that was the problem – it was more about how it made me feel. Over the course of the last 18 months, my weight has slowly crept up by 24lb (almost 11kg)! At first I didn’t notice it… then, after a while, I tried to “ignore” it until finally I hit a figurative wall. Okay, so this isn’t normally the type of post I write, but I really wanted to share something personal with you. ![]()
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