With the rise in use of GLP1’s, we are hearing more and more conversations (and judgments) about their role in weight loss and seeing more and more people whose bodies are changing. At times there is a real lack of nuance in the discussion. While it can sometimes come from a well-intentioned place, it’s still hurtful to those who are trying their best to make a decision that feels best for them at this moment in time.
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When we see yet another ad for a weight loss/wellness/cleanse/diet, they aren’t selling us weight loss-they are selling the life that awaits us when we’ve lost the weight. Which only intensifies our association between losing weight and living the life we’ve always dreamed of.
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Weight loss efforts are appealing for so many reasons. The one that gets a lot of attention is the end result-the promise of a body that will make you feel proud, a body that will make all of the other things you worry about somehow cease to exist (or at least cause less worry), a body that is the body you were meant to have. All of which are appealing as hell when we’re spiraling, deeply ashamed of our body. And all of which we realize after a ‘successful’ weight loss effort are actually totally false.
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Healing your relationship with food and your body means being willing to grieve. It means grieving the time you may feel you’ve lost to hating your body and obsessing about food. It may mean grieving the body you’ve always wished you had to make compassionate space for the body you have right now. Or it may be grieving the idea of waking up one day and loving your body in order to give way for the the not-always-fast road to respecting your body.
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