@ayevanessa: Remember when I asked you if I gained weight and you said no? I wasn’t fishing for reassurance. I genuinely didn’t know. I have body dysmorphia, and it has complicated a lot of my past attempts to lose weight. I couldn’t always trust what I saw, and when I asked people close to me, they’d either lie or sugarcoat it because they didn’t want to hurt my feelings. I know they meant well, but that made it worse. I couldn’t trust my own eyes OR the people around me. So I started filming myself as a form of accountability. And somewhere along the way, the goal changed. Instead of obsessing over how much weight I was losing, I started asking myself what I can get better at? What can I do now that I couldn’t do before? What did the weight keep me from doing? Those are things I don’t have to see correctly in a mirror. I can FEEL them. And the bond I’ve built with my own body through that process is something I can trust. Of course I love seeing the results. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have a few dream bodies on my dream board 😂 But I can find motivation in someone else without making replication the goal. At the end of the day, I have this body. And I’m not trying to become somebody else. I’m trying to see what the hell this one can do. 💋 #BodyDysmorphia #WeightLossJourney #FitnessJourney #BodyImage #HealthyWeightLoss

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