Accepting your body is not the same for all sizes?

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Does anyone else think that "intuitive eating" and "accepting your wobbly bits" only really works for people who are only slightly overweight?

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of it, but once you get to be massively obese like me, more drastic measures are needed. It's no longer just a case of feeling comfortable with how you look, but it's now a matter of life and death.

I'm probably not explaining myself very well, but I'm friends with a few women who have ditched the diets and are accepting themselves as they are, which is great, but when you're only 1-2 stone overweight, it just seems like it's much easier to take that stance.

Yes I get where you're coming from. I have been massively overweight and it was affecting my health and mobility. I don't think I could have ever accepted myself like that as I would have been accepting being in pain for the rest of my (probably shorter) life.

Now I am about a stone from a healthy BMI and the pressure and motivation to lose the last stone has lessened a lot. Not only because I'm a lot healthier and fitter now, but because I don't think I look that bad. When I was at my heaviest I looked unhealthy and it was obvious to everyone, now I'm slimmer I look like an average Jane so don't feel so bothered by the extra stone so much.

The trick is not to get complacent and start old habits again so I get back to being obese which is what I AM struggling with, and what caused me to gain a bit back!