Loose skin and the industry that appeared overnight

I would gently say that if this has become the main thing you think about, that is worth mentioning to somebody rather than managing alone.

I have stopped reading anything that presents bodies as a before and a subsequent state. That single decision improved my year measurably.

What surprised me was that the difficult feelings did not follow the timeline I expected. My hardest month was much later than I would have predicted.

What I got wrong was expecting a change in circumstances to change how I felt. It did not. The feeling had its own history.

Reading and nodding. Nothing to add, and I wanted you to know somebody had read it.

I found the comments from people who had known me a long time hardest, because they carried an implied opinion about before.

What helped was other people describing exactly the same complicated feelings without tidying them into a lesson.

The comparison habit was the hardest to break and I broke it mostly by removing the things I was comparing against.