I have a secret....
I have a secret to share: I hated myself skinny. I am a self destructive perfectionist. I am constantly striving for flawlessness, setting high standards and then I am overly critical in my self evaluation. I am constantly concerned with other peoples opinion of me. I have been on some form of a diet since elementary school. The world tells us “You’re the reason a diet doesn’t work. You are flawed and not good enough or you’d be successful.” So during a diet you develop perfectionism to control/fix yourself. The problem is perfect doesn’t exist and we continue to beat ourselves up in the pursuit of it. The perfectionist mindset it falls into every aspect of our life -so that we don’t feel successful anywhere because... PERFECT DOESN’T EXIST I attached my self worth to the success of my diet/exercise plan and I became hypercritical when I didn't achieve it! Instead of stepping back and saying “your perfectionist mindset is the issue”, I would pu