Other people are making this harder
Perhaps somebody else can eat more freely, keeps offering you food, comments on your body or makes your choices feel unnecessarily difficult. Weight loss may be personal, but it rarely happens without other people wandering into it.
These articles are here for the comparison, resentment, pressure and uncomfortable feelings that can appear around partners, friends, family and other people’s bodies.
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Feeling jealous of other women’s bodies
Start here if another woman’s body has made you question your own progress, worth or ability to change.
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When your partner can eat differently from you
When somebody you love can eat more freely, their plate can make your own choices feel unfair or restrictive.
Fat noise: when your size enters the room before you do
For when worrying about other people’s judgement changes how you behave, speak or take up space.
Responsibility without self-hatred
You can admit jealousy, resentment or hurt without turning those feelings into proof that you are a bad person.