The question I‘ve been asking myself all my life lol. I grew up in a school where most girls were close to underweight. I was in the middle- upper range of normal, which made the the fattest girl in my grade all my life. I developed anorexia in my teenage years and lost way too much weight, but I never felt too skinny. I have since gained and lost weight many times.
Two years ago I hit my highest weight at 170 lbs, and started a much healthier and happier weight loss journey. I am now stabilized for quite some time at about 135 pounds at 5‘9. I don’t have eating disordered behavior anymore, and I would never go back to what I felt during that time.
Now, I don’t feel skinny when I look in the mirror. I also don’t feel fat when I look in the mirror. Some people tell me I look too skinny. But then I am also considered plus size on social media.
I don’t know what to feel. I felt the same way being at a lower weight (until I was dangerously underweight, at that point it was pure misery). I now just wanna feel balanced and attractive enough to have motivation to keep this weight, instead of aiming for less. I wanna be happy at this weight, truly. I have energy, I can do sports, I have a social life. I just don’t know how to convince my brain that I can stop thinking about weight loss now. That it’s okay to finally not think about weighing less anymore, after over 12 long years. To not make plans anymore, to stop taking progress pictures, to not calculate how much weight I could lose in weeks, months, years. That I don’t need to "optimize that one part of my belly" or that "I could lose a little more of my chin fat".
I know that the number on the scale is okay. But I don’t know if I feel okay. This question is also not focused on eating disorders, I’m asking everyone who has lost weight before, is done with losing weight or is also trying to figure it out. Because I learned that no matter how healthy your weight loss journey is - if you don’t know where and when to stop, it’s unhealthy. So : how do you know that you can stop losing weight, after all this time of being in that mindset?
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