What if your body's right? 🍎
What if you already know?
These were my thoughts when I read about Ozempic face or the volumes of loose skin people are contending with after rapid weight loss.
Of course, the answer is surgery, fillers, and products. The fix for the fix.
From my view, it feels brutal. Bodies respond to ultra-processed foods and sugar everywhere by gaining weight, as they're supposed to. Then the rapid weight loss from drugs. There's no time to adjust, so the skin stays loose, and fat is pulled from the face. Again, that's what's supposed to happen.
What's missed are all the important ways one learns to live in an obesogenic world when the expectation is that the weight loss is slow. How different foods affect us, how to read labels, how to create defaults, how to self-soothe, how to socialize, how to listen to hunger, how to move even.
My fifty-pound loss took a year and a half, and that was after stabilizing my weight for the two years prior. Glacial by today's standards.
I never experienced any skin issues. My face looked fine at the end. But the big payoff was that I learned how to live at my healthy weight. I know how to navigate a world designed for weight gain. That was fifteen years ago.
Each lesson is the basis for what I teach today.
- You are fine.
- Food is simple.
- Navigating our food system, your household, friendships, socializing, and emotions is the hard part.
