Be Gentle ⎯⎯ Pandemic Edition
There is no right way to navigate this.
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Eating with consistency is a fantastic way to create structure in a potentially unstructured time. It also prevents hangry moments and maximizes your ability to show up for whatever you need to show up for. Even if that’s you, alone. Or your kids or partner or roommate or pets.
Eating for comfort is allowed.
Eating comfort food is allowed.
Eating leads to dopamine release. A beautifully orchestrated chemical sequence that is designed to keep us eating. This is not a shameful thing. It is an extraordinary thing.
Getting sucked into concerns about weight change in the context of quarantine is demonstration of the power of diet culture. Bodies change on purpose. And aiming endlessly to be smaller is not the point of you.
Maybe you’re attending @zoom_video_communications dates, endlessly. Perhaps, not. 🙋♀️ Maybe you’re tuning in to Instagram support. Hopefully you’re continuing to utilize therapeutic support; virtual is different, but still valuable.
You don’t need to weigh yourself. You don’t need to try on jeans unless you want to wear them. You don’t need to hang your summer clothes in your line of sight. Just don’t.
Move in ways that feel good. Or don’t. Ask: if I knew my body would not change as a result of this exercise, would I still do this? Movement is a privilege. Not a punishment.
Be gentle.
Happy Monday, loves.
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