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"There is probably some range that is your genetic heritage, a range where your body "settles." You could be "underweight" on the height and weight charts and be above that range for you. You could be "overweight" on charts but below that range for you. How do you find it if you can't trust the charts? It is the weight your body settles and defends when you are not compulsive about dieting, exercising, and eating. You can't get away from the truth about how you are living your day-to-day life. You can't live in an unhealthy way and achieve a "healthy" weight.
"Whether you are a thin, average-weight, or fat person, if you are struggling with food and weight, the recovery process looks much the same. You have to learn to let the focus on weight recede, and instead cultivate weight neutrality. You have to work with your body, make it a partner - and there is joy in this. You have to learn to be a good parent to youself, to care about what you need and desire - and there is joy in this. You have to strengthen your "emotional immune system" to withstand the culture's nasty messages about femaleness and fatness and failure - and work to change the culture - and there is joy even in this.
"May you find joy."
-Debby Burgard, Ph.D
"Whether you are a thin, average-weight, or fat person, if you are struggling with food and weight, the recovery process looks much the same. You have to learn to let the focus on weight recede, and instead cultivate weight neutrality. You have to work with your body, make it a partner - and there is joy in this. You have to learn to be a good parent to youself, to care about what you need and desire - and there is joy in this. You have to strengthen your "emotional immune system" to withstand the culture's nasty messages about femaleness and fatness and failure - and work to change the culture - and there is joy even in this.
"May you find joy."
-Debby Burgard, Ph.D