extreme weight loss is trending…
Your world gets smaller (and lonelier)
When you aren’t giving your body enough energy to live, holding conversations with friends and/or trying to make new ones feels draining. And when you do attend social events, you stop engaging because connection (esp. around food and drink) feels incompatable with extreme control.
You lose all sense of pleasure and enjoyment
When every thought is consumed with food, fear, carbs, + calories there’s no desire, energy, or capacity, for fun, games or sex.
Spontaneity becomes the enemy
When your world is routines, rules, and rigid compliance, anything that has the potential to derail that becomes a threat and your world starts to shrink.
You lose your period
When you’re eating so few calories and/or exercising so much that your body no longer menstruates consistently, it’s not a flex. It’s a red fucking flag with serious long-term consequences (like infertility and bone loss).
Your anxiety skyrockets
When you’re chronically under eating your stress response is triggered and your nervous system loses its sense of safety - leading to obsessive thoughts about food, heightened control needs, hyper-vigilance, and increased anxiety across the board (not just around food).
Your body pays the bill
When you’re hyper focused on creating extreme weight loss, things get costly… bone density loss, hormonal disruption, chronic fatigue, recurring injuries, digestive issues, hair loss and brittle nails. And sometimes the bill demands to be paid YEARS later - long after the compliments fade.
I didn’t lose my health because I was reckless (as a first-born, eldest daughter I’m aversive to risk taking), I lost it because extreme weight loss was praised as discipline and I don’t want you to fall for the same lie.
If it costs you your health, happiness, and/or your headspace, it’s 👏🏻 too 👏🏻 expensive 👏🏻
Which is why I talk incessantly about the importance of HOW, WHY, and HOW QUICKLY you lose weight. Your life - and the quality of your life - depends on it. If you’re looking to lose weight without relying on restriction, deprivation, or extremes, I’m your girl,
because extreme weight loss? it’s not a bill you want your body to pay.
Sincerely, a girl who’s been there 🫶🏻
