Allure: I Compulsively Weighed Myself for 2 Years — Here’s How I Stopped
Note: My journey to self love and body positivity isn’t unique, but it is mine. I occasionally write about my struggles with accepting my weight and my body for what it is because I know I’m not alone. But I’d be lying if I said I wrote about attempting to love myself unconditionally because I want to help other people. In truth, it’s because I also want to help myself.
This essay in Allure is perhaps the most personal thing I’ve publicly written. And I wrote it quite some time ago. Given the setbacks I’ve had in the body image and self love department, it’s publication couldn’t have come at a better time — because even people who write about loving their bodies need a reminder here and there what that really looks like. Especially when that reminder comes from their own pen.
I’m so grateful to those who have inspired me to have more good days than bad ones, and who stick around to support me when I forget that fact — most especially my fellow plus ladies and my fella.
Read my latest at Allure here: https://www.allure.com/story/why-stop-weighing-self-scale-obsession
