Some recurring issues you might be facing if you struggle with feeling good about how you look and feel in your own skin.
Food Related:
Whether I follow a diet plan or not, I spend a lot of my day thinking about what I have eaten or what I’m going to eat, and feeling anxious about it.
I don’t feel like I’m allowed to have the foods I want so I have to withhold them from myself, or sneak them…and then I end of eating a lot…and feeling even more guilty…
Exercise Related:
I have to burn off the food I eat .
I have to move around once I eat to burn off the food.
If I haven’t done enough during a day I am reluctant to eat at night.
If I want to relax and watch a tv show at night I don’t feel that is justified/I can’t allow it if I haven’t done a lot of exercise that day. I may still sit and watch tv, but I’ll feel bad, guilty and won’t be able to really just enjoy my down time.
If I see anyone exercising, even if I’ve just exercised myself, I feel like I have to be going again too.
Relationship Related:
I don’t like going out because of how I feel about my body.
I avoid going places where people will see my body ie. swimming pools…
I avoid travel/flying because of how I feel about my body.
I don’t like it when my partner or people in general hug me - they’ll judge my body.
I don’t like my partner seeing me naked.
I don’t like my partner touching my belly.