Love Your Body Through Thick and Thin

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I hear you, and believe me, I’m trying to! And although my body doesn’t get as many new clothes or pictures snapped of it now, I’m treating it tenderly.

One thing we do is to go to the gym several times each week where we enjoy the dubious pleasure of getting sweaty together—and feeling so good afterward. We get out for walks and stay as active as before. We’ve also been on a big family vacation where we had to throw caution to the wind and wear a swimsuit. And we survived.

Even with a sudden and noticeable weight gain, I have not fallen into self-loathing as women often do. The reason for my recent equanimity is probably my work on Stop Losing and Win, now compiled into 250 pages of wisdom for how to love your body. Four years of research and writing add up to being able to accept myself when I am slim and not-so-slim.

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After arriving at the weights we wanted to maintain, my sister and I scoured the academic and popular literature to find the guidance we needed to simply retain our hard-earned successes. What we found was incomplete, prescriptive, or down right discouraging. Sometimes it is clear that a lack of information opens a door to work that needs to be done.

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