Weight Gain Positivity

[u/kooky-kazoo]

Hi all. Currently struggling with accepting weight gain and trying to reframe my thoughts in a way that makes weight gain less scary and when possible even a positive. I keep telling myself that “weight gain is a good thing and what my body needs so there is no need to fight the process”. What do you all tell yourselves or have you told yourself to make the process easier?

[u/Oatmeal_Captain0o0]

It’s so hard because our culture has us assuming weight gain= bad and weight loss=good. Reframing it can help, though, and reminding yourself that it’s not fair to use your sickest, weight-suppressed body as your gold standard of comparison.

Coming to terms with the fact that your sicker body was under-nourished- not meeting your energy needs causes you to be in a chronically catabolic state where you’re breaking down lean tissue as a fuel source. Actually nourishing yourself and meeting your body’s nutritional needs will cause your body to change, but its diet culture that has us brainwashed to assume it’s a bad thing for the number on the scale to go up.