In the beginning of my existence I believed that weight loss was as simple as eating less, move more and everything would be in place.
We’re sold on that story — that’s what’s that’s written on the covers of magazines, recited by fitness influencers and included on all “before and after” photo we see on the internet.
What is the truth?
Weight loss isn’t only the matter of your physical appearance. It’s about your personality, your feelings and relationships and the unpredictably ways that your life is affected as the number on the scale drops.
This is the aspect that nobody warns you about.
1. The moment your body changes but your mind doesn’t
The first kilo that you lose is like a victory.
The tenth is like a sense of control.
Yet somewhere in the process it happens that something odd that causes your body to change faster than your brain is able to keep pace with.
You find yourself looking for the same baggy clothing the new ones are more comfortable.
Still, you are averse to mirrors because of routine.
People say to them “You look great,” however your brain is programmed to believe that you aren’t.
There is no one to tell you that losing weight causes psychological lags -the body changes and your self-image is delayed by several months, or perhaps years, to recover.
2. The weight loss process exposes the things you wouldn’t like to see
You believe that losing weight can make your life easier.
It is true, but not in the manner you think.
What isn’t being told is that excess weight often can act as an emotional shield.
When it’s over to:
- the stress that you relied on food to calm
- the loneliness you left unnoticed
- the self-doubt and doubt you’ve have buried
Weight loss isn’t a magical fix for your life. It only removes distractions, and then you’re faced with the tough struggles.
3. People treat you differently — and it messes with your head
The world reacts to you like you’ve suddenly been elevated to a higher standard.
Strangers smile at you more.
People ask you about you’re “secret” is.
Family members who have never have ever commented on your appearance now appear proud.
While a the majority of you love it, a different part of you feels something more sinister:
“Why didn’t they treat me like this before?”
It’s a pity that weight loss reveals how different people view you based on your weight.
4. Discipline becomes lonely
Everyone cheers you on when you begin your weight loss journey.
Nobody claps with you while you’re in the kitchen around 11 a.m. food preparation on your own.
or when you’d like to eat a cake at a birthday celebration, but you’re told no,
or doing weights when everyone else sleeps.
There is no one who can assure you that discipline is amazing at first…
and then isolating in the and isolating in the middle.
5. Your relationship with food becomes complicated
Not worse — just different.
It is discovered that hunger isn’t an emergency.
It is important to remember that cravings are not orders.
This comfort food won’t reassure you; it dulls you.
However, you will also discover that eating a diet can turn into a mental war,
and often the most difficult part isn’t…
However, it’s about reestablishing a healthy relationship with the things you have to do.
6. The biggest transformation is invisible
Losing weight alters your wardrobe or your energy level, and also your posture.
But the most significant shift is internal.
You start to trust yourself.
You will learn to keep your promises to yourself body.
You will learn to endure the days when where you’re not feeling inspired.
You realize that you can recover yourself slowly, with pain however, wonderfully.
Weight loss doesn’t mean being a slimmer person.
It’s about building a stronger one.
7. And maybe the hardest truth of all…
It’s not like you become a completely different person following weight loss.
You’ll become more of you without the layers of life that are placed upon you.
This is both thrilling and frightening.
