If I let go of losing weight, what would I focus on?
We attach so much of our self-worth to our ability to suck it up and lose weight for the sole purpose of having a smaller body.
It’s exhausting. And misguided.
The purpose of food and eating is to create and maintain optimal health.
The purpose of food is not to punish and reward ourselves.
But that is what we have come to expect in our diet culture. We are either being good, restricting, and losing weight, or we are being bad, overeating, and gaining weight.
We have learned not to trust ourselves with food and eating, and to instead look to outside sources of expertise because, surely, we don’t know what we are doing.
But we do know. We’ve always known.