This year has been a huge overhaul of my mental health. Part of figuring out how to help my mental health was finding out that I was gluten intolerant, and needed to cut out most refined sugar (which included drinking alcohol) and cows milk. I’ve also been doing talk therapy weekly , neurofeedback therapy twice weekly and trying to walk every day.
I also have a very long history with an eating disorder (currently at day 205 with no Ed behaviors!). I also have been spending the past 7 years working on accepting my body as it is. A physical side effect from all of these new habits is losing a almost 50lbs.
It’s really uncomfortable when people congratulate me on losing weight because I wasn’t trying to lose it. I spent all those years learning to accept my body and then, I get all these comments and compliments about losing weight when I liked what I looked like before, but it looks like everyone else didn’t.
It makes me INCREDIBLY uncomfortable when people comment or compliment on it because it’s like they’re saying they didn’t like what I looked like before and it just reminds me of the trauma that I’ve been trying to process to help with my severe PTSD.
Does anyone have any advice on how to handle the comments to shut them down but not hurt their feelings. I know they don’t mean any harm, but the anxiety that I get from it is palpable.
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