A smallish thread on weight and body image:
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The unhelpful part of my brain was still pointing out how much bigger I was that everyone else, but with the water to calm me down, I was able to flip that around and identify this as just one of many differences, so that it came to feel like a random, normal thing.
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Yes, I was bigger. But I also had short hair instead of long, a one-piece instead of a bikini, wet hair instead of dry, was swimming laps instead of sitting. And I liked those things about myself, not b/c I disliked the other women, but b/c they made me happy.
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By focusing on positive differences, I was able to turn my self-consciousness about my body around, so that I felt happy to be different - happy to be myself, and what it represented - without having to feel negatively about the people around me, or negative about myself.
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Anyway. It was a small, nice mental change to be able to effect, so I thought I'd share it. FIN.
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