I’m just one person, and I don’t know what’s wrong or right for other people. If those movements resonate with people and help them, it’s all good. I’m also not here to bash them or the people involved in them.
That being said, I decided to “leave” that school of thought because it was no longer serving me. I had become not only “anti-diet” (which I still am), but, frankly, anti-health. I was opposed to any suggestion of exercise and of eating anything healthy.
I wore my sedentary lifestyle and my unhealthy diet (literally no vegetables or fruits ever) like a badge of honour.
Along the way, many things started sticking with me: I looked bigger in pictures, I had to give away my favourite coat, I couldn’t walk as fast as my friends.
But for some reason, my wake up call was this: a YouTuber gained weight.
I’m serious. I’ve been following these two body-positive YouTubers for several years now. All three of us were size 12 when I started watching. 4 years later, I’m still a size 12. One of them is a size 16-18, the other is a size 20. I only noticed how big the difference is when I watched an old collab they did. The difference is HUGE.
Over the years, every video they made about not fitting into clothes in the fitting room. Or how their body is “changing” and “that’s ok”. And how they have to “size up and there’s nothing wrong with that”. And how “if you don’t fit in clothes, it’s the clothes fault. Not yours.”
Well. This is where this philosophy got them. And if they’re happy with that, good for them. But I don’t want that for myself. And that was the last straw for me.
If you also left those movements, what did it for you?
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