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Fed up of striving for perfection

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Franksidebottom12 · 26/08/2022 10:50

I'm only early 30s but still find it's easier to gain the weight.
I was 8st 11 when I was 27 and now I'm 9st 6. Well on the gym scales I'm 9st 6, on my home cheap scales I'm 9st 10 (both this morning) so no idea which is the accurate one.

I'm 169cm I think that's just under 5'7?

Anyway I've got a bit of a wobbly belly, thighs and arms but clearly nowhere near overweight. I do go to the gym, walk and ride a bicycle but I can't get this idea out of my head of being 9 stone.

I think I see too many women, in the gym, on Instagram or just in the street with these so-called perfect bodies, very defined stomachs and so on.

I'm a perfectly healthy weight so really don't need to lose any more? It's almost some sort of dysmorphia I've got.

All I need to do is maintain, but I have this idea that I could be thinner, more toned and so on. I've been doing the 16:8, it's actually not too bad bit last night I was thinking to myself, why am I going to bed hungry every night just to look a certain way.

I'm probably just being stupid? Does anyone else have this idea that they need to lose weight even when perfectly healthy?

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